{"id":49319,"date":"2021-06-22T13:39:02","date_gmt":"2021-06-22T17:39:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/?p=49319"},"modified":"2021-06-22T13:39:13","modified_gmt":"2021-06-22T17:39:13","slug":"did-you-know-75","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/2021\/06\/did-you-know-75\/","title":{"rendered":"Did you Know?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>By Paul Waldmiller<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Did you know that a State of Florida appeals court recently ruled that the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services improperly denied a concealed weapons license for a man who said his civil rights were restored after a 1969 felony conviction in Illinois?<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"367\" height=\"228\" src=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/concealed-weapon-license-border.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-49320\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/concealed-weapon-license-border.jpg 367w, https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/06\/concealed-weapon-license-border-300x186.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 367px) 100vw, 367px\" \/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>The person originally from Illinois now residing here in Florida, was identified in the court\u2019s ruling as \u201cR.C.\u201d His attorneys contended that R.C. stated that his rights were restored in 1971 and that he had obtained a concealed-weapons license in Illinois before moving here to Florida. The state appeals courts in their ruling stated that the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services, which regulates concealed weapons permits, should have gone beyond the information in the NICS check and held a formal hearing to consider evidence about whether he should receive a license in Florida.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the justices from the 1st District Court of Appeals, Judge Makar who sided with the majority, but dissented in part, wrote; \u201cWho\u2019s to be believed? FDLE, the top Florida criminal justice agency with the exclusive authority to access and correct the NICS database? Or the department, which lacks any such authority and isn\u2019t even a criminal justice agency? What are criminal justice agencies and law enforcement officers to do when the NICS database says an individual is NCIS ineligible but they are handed a final order from the department saying he is eligible? Unwarranted confusion will result and an adverse impact on public safety is likely, as both FDLE and the department warn.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>According to the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services website, there are nearly 2.4 million Floridians who have a concealed weapons license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Paul Waldmiller Did you know that a State of Florida appeals court recently ruled that the Florida Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services improperly denied a concealed weapons license&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":49320,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[419],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49319"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49319"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49319\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":49321,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49319\/revisions\/49321"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49320"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49319"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49319"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thelehighacresgazette.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49319"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}