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Related: About this forumFLORIDA speeding up concealed weapon permit renewals
http://www.heraldtribune.com/article/20120328/APN/1203280559FORT WALTON BEACH, Fla. - Florida is speeding up the process for renewing concealed weapons permits to meet a growing demand from gun owners.
The FAST Track service will help the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services meet increased demand for concealed weapons and firearms permits.
The department last month distributed a record 53,835 applications for concealed weapons permits.
To use the new service, license holders must call to schedule appointments and bring unsigned applications and checks or money orders to pay their fees.
Staffers will notarize their signatures and take their photographs at no additional charge.
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Using this service they will be able to get same-day renewals. Fifty-three thousand applications in one month is a lot of folks that want to carry guns, and a lot of pro-gun votes.
Clames
(2,038 posts)Going in the right direction. "Drive-thru" service next?
krispos42
(49,445 posts)...the mentally-incompetent and convicted-felon roles.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)By MICHAEL COOPER and JO CRAVEN McGINTY
Published: March 27, 2012
Florida, which is expected to be a vital swing state once again in this years presidential election, is enrolling fewer new voters than it did four years ago as prominent civic organizations have suspended registration drives because of what they describe as onerous restrictions imposed last year by Republican state officials.
The states new elections law which requires groups that register voters to turn in completed forms within 48 hours or risk fines, among other things has led the states League of Women Voters to halt its efforts this year. Rock the Vote, a national organization that encourages young people to vote, began an effort last week to register high school students around the nation but not in Florida, over fears that teachers could face fines. And on college campuses, the once-ubiquitous folding tables piled high with voter registration forms are now a rarer sight.
Florida, which reminded the nation of the importance of every vote in the disputed presidential election in 2000 when it reported that George W. Bush had won by 537 votes, is now seeing a significant drop-off in new voter registrations. In the months since its new law took effect in July, 81,471 fewer Floridians have registered to vote than during the same period before the 2008 presidential election, according to an analysis of registration data by The New York Times. All told, there are 11.3 million voters registered in the state.
It is difficult to say just how much of the decrease is due to the restrictions in the law, and how much to demographic changes, a lack of enthusiasm about politics or other circumstances, including the fact that there was no competitive Democratic presidential primary this year. But new registrations dropped sharply in some areas where the voting-age population has been growing, the analysis found, including Miami-Dade County, where they fell by 39 percent, and Orange County, where they fell by a little more than a fifth. Some local elections officials said that the lack of registration drives by outside groups has been a factor in the decline.
More: NYT Story
They are actually trying to fine a high school teacher thousands of dollars for turning in voter registrations from her students late: http://www.colbertnation.com/the-colbert-report-videos/409522/march-01-2012/people-who-are-destroying-america---teachers
Florida - always vigilant - really mucked up!
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)I fail to see the humor.
krispos42
(49,445 posts)And this is why some people here get cranky with proposals for "reasonable" gun laws... it's not about accomplishing a stated goal, it's do to gun owners what is being done to women regarding abortion, skilled labor regarding unionization, and elections regarding poor/elderly/minorities voting. Constant, incremental attack from multiple vectors combined with incessant propaganda.
I listen to the Best of the Left podcast... with a significant delay. Right now I'm caught up to mid-September of last year... and it's about the war the conservatives are waging on a woman's right to choose an abortion. And this is well before the forced-ultrasound bills gained fame in Texas and Virginia.
ellisonz
(27,711 posts)Some people are unreasonable and wouldn't agree to any gun control reform. I don't hold much hope for them and they're the people who demonize their opponents the most, what they see as what you describe is backlash.
Florida is nuts, the end.
gejohnston
(17,502 posts)Florida is nuts. Read the sig line.
Atypical Liberal
(5,412 posts)ileus
(15,396 posts)they should at least be quick about it....Lives are on the line.
COLGATE4
(14,732 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Straw Man
(6,624 posts)Anybody who is renewing a permit is already "armed up."
Don't you ever get tired of ...
Oh, never mind. It isn't worth the trouble.
ileus
(15,396 posts)Hopefully they've already selected nice CC's even if only for open carry or home defense.
Until then stay safe my friends.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)unarmed teenagers some applicant might have shot or intimidated in the name of self-defense?
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)...beloved of Republicans? There's a certain mindset in politics that's all for restricting "those people"- and not everyone with it
is a right-winger...
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Most of them are just concerned that they might screw up too someday.
friendly_iconoclast
(15,333 posts)Hoyt
(54,770 posts)Kennah
(14,265 posts)I suspect you really won't like it.