{"id":32036,"date":"2020-01-30T23:11:34","date_gmt":"2020-01-31T05:11:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=32036"},"modified":"2020-01-30T23:12:52","modified_gmt":"2020-01-31T05:12:52","slug":"32036","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=32036","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Florida bills would allow concealed weapons at school churches, armed city officials in meetings<\/a><\/p>\n

TALLAHASSEE \u2014 With supporters pointing to attacks on churches and synagogues, a House panel Tuesday approved a measure that would allow people to carry concealed weapons at religious institutions that share properties with schools.<\/p>\n

The House Criminal Justice Subcommittee also approved a separate bill that would allow county commissioners, school board members and elected city officials to be armed at their public meetings.<\/p>\n

State law generally allows people to carry concealed weapons at religious institutions, but it bars being armed on school properties. That has effectively meant that people cannot carry guns to churches or synagogues that meet at places with schools.<\/p>\n

The measure (HB 1437) approved Tuesday would allow religious institutions to authorize people with concealed-weapons licenses to carry guns at such locations.<\/p>\n

\u201cRight now, if a church was located on the same property as, say, a preschool, and that preschool met from Monday through Friday, people at that church would not be allowed to carry concealed on Sunday and Wednesday night during those services, and this bill would change that,\u201d bill sponsor Jayer Williamson, R-Pace, said.<\/p>\n

Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey supported the proposal, saying he considers it a \u201cproperty rights bill\u201d instead of a gun bill.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Florida bills would allow concealed weapons at school churches, armed city officials in meetings TALLAHASSEE \u2014 With supporters pointing to attacks on churches and synagogues, a House panel Tuesday approved a measure that would allow people to carry concealed weapons at religious institutions that share properties with schools. The House Criminal Justice Subcommittee also approved … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8,29,17],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32036","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-rkba","category-safety","category-self-defense"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32036","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=32036"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32036\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32041,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32036\/revisions\/32041"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=32036"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=32036"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=32036"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}