Question 1
Florida’s Emergency Risk Protection Order or ‘Red Flag’ laws allow judges to order the confiscation of a citizen’s firearm(s) based on hearsay evidence, in court hearings where the accused may not even be allowed to testify on their behalf. In practice, these laws create a process to strip away a citizens’ firearms and rights who have not been convicted of any crime with no due process and no ability for them to defend themselves in court of law - as has been used against Floridians in the thousands since 2018.
If elected, would you sponsor legislation to repeal Florida’s Emergency Risk Protection Order AKA ‘Red Flag’ gun law that violates due process rights, strips gun owners of their Second Amendment freedoms, and does nothing to stop violent criminals?
Question 2
Our “Constitutional Carry” law leaves much to be desired. For example, current law fails to allow lawful Floridians the ability to carry any legally possessed weapon for self-defense and only permits handguns to be conceal carried. A true Constitutional Carry law would restore Floridians’ ability to carry ready shotguns and rifles in their vehicles.
If elected, would you support legislation strengthening Florida’s “Constitutional Carry” law to restore the right for gun owners in Florida to carry whatever legally owned self-defense tool that they choose and allow Florida citizens the ability to carry and/or store their legally owned and possessed weapons in their vehicle?
Question 3
Florida is one of only four states in America that criminalize the open carry of firearms, and the only Republican-controlled state in America to do so. Many gun owners see this as a gross infringement of Floridians’ Second Amendment rights and want to see the Florida Legislature repeal this ban immediately.
If elected, would you support legislation repealing Florida’s ban on the open carry of firearms?
Question 4
Almost every legislative candidate will say "I support the Second Amendment" but not all will stand firmly against new and invasive forms of gun control, especially when “compromises” are offered.
Will you publicly oppose all methods of gun control, including those that the media calls "reasonable," including but not limited to laws that disallow those with simple misdemeanor convictions from owning and carrying guns, increasing the minimum age of those who carry guns for self-defense, new taxes on ammunition, and new ways to track guns and gun owners?
Question 5
In the 2024 legislative session, the Florida House has passed HB1223 lowering the age to purchase a long gun from 21 to 18, but the legislation died in the Senate. These legal adults’ Second Amendment freedoms are being infringed upon and it is past time that the Florida Legislature correct this.
If elected, will you support, co-sponsor, and vote yes on legislation (such as HB1223) that restores the right of 18–20-year-old adults to legally purchase long guns in Florida with no waiting period required?
Question 6
As part of a gun-control package (SB7026) that was passed in 2018 and signed into law by then-Governor Rick Scott, Florida implemented a 3-day-minimum waiting period for all firearm purchases, among other provisions. As we have seen across the country and here in Florida, waiting periods are deadly for lawful citizens – keeping potential victims from quick access to firearms, especially when they feel that their life is in imminent danger.
If elected, will you publicly support legislation repealing Florida’s deadly waiting period law?
Question 7
Florida implemented a Deadly “Safe Storage” Law that requires Florida gun owners lock up their firearms in a state-approved manner or face criminal charges. REAL criminals are empowered by these laws because they simply disregard them.
If elected, would you publicly support legislation that repeals Florida’s Deadly “Safe Storage” law that does nothing to stop violent criminals but instead impowers them to victimize innocent Floridians in their homes?
Question 8
Also in 2018, Florida implemented a policy that completely bans bump stocks in the State of Florida. However, on June 14, 2024, the United States Supreme Court overturned the federal ban on bump stocks. Even so, this rifle accessory is still banned under state law here in Florida. As the court found and as any gun owner knows, these devices do not turn a firearm into a machine gun because it still requires individual pulls of the trigger to fire each cartridge.
If elected, would you publicly support legislation repealing Florida’s ban on bump stocks that were found by the U.S. Supreme Court to not be machine guns or turn firearms into machine guns?
Question 9
Gun control advocates hype the false idea that certain cosmetic features make some semi-automatic firearms or high-capacity magazines "different" than others. Media hysteria has led to the misperception that semi-automatic firearms are so-called "assault weapons." All semi-automatic firearms function essentially the same, as do all magazines. The federal ban on “assault weapons” expired in September 2004, and Florida has eliminated its own restrictions on magazine capacity. But some in Florida are trying to make these firearms and accessories illegal here by state law.
Do you oppose legislation banning the manufacture, sale or possession of semi-automatic firearms and/or standard-capacity magazines, recognizing that these restrictions do nothing to stop crime but only serve to harass gun owners?
Question 10
In 2021, the State of Missouri passed the Second Amendment Preservation Act, otherwise known as SAPA, which prohibits the Federal government from ‘commandeering’ state and local law enforcement to enforce federal gun laws. Interest in this legislation has exploded across the grassroots gun owner community, and states across America are moving this legislation.
Would you support legislation like the Second Amendment Protection Act, which simply prohibits the federal commandeering of state and local law enforcement resources for gun control enforcement and imposes civil penalties on those departments that violate SAPA?
Question 11
Anti-gun organizations, often funded with out of state resources, have been clamoring for legislation to end all private party sales in Florida – and go so far as to make it a felony for family members to pass firearms down to the next generation without submitting to a federal NCIC check, thereby adding themselves and the firearm to a
federal list.
Do you oppose Bloomberg’s “Universal Gun Registration” legislation that would ban all private party sales and label offenders as felons for simply passing down a family firearm to a descendant or sharing a firearm with a friend while on a hunting trip?
Question 12
Mental health has become a back door for gun control by expanding the criteria for voluntary and involuntary mental health commitments, adding more and more people to the NCIC ‘prohibited persons’ list often without due process and full adjudication by a court of law. Once a person’s name is placed on this list, it is virtually impossible to have it removed. Legislation has been introduced multiple times in recent years that would greatly expand the range of people who would be able to add a person’s name to the prohibited person’s list, including “Red Flag” legislation that would strip gun owners of their Second Amendment Rights without due process.
Would you oppose all so-called “mental health” legislation that would deny law abiding Floridians their gun rights without due process through a court of law?
Question 13
Most mass shootings happen in so-called “Gun-Free” areas where law-abiding citizens are forced to disarm, which quite literally has resulted in violent criminals targeting these sites. This prevents otherwise law-abiding citizens from defending themselves, their loved ones and innocent citizens around them.
If elected, would you support legislation to eliminate restrictions on law-abiding gun owners from carrying a firearm in certain so-called “Gun-Free” areas, otherwise known as “Criminal Safe Zones?”
