Look, I've been in the gun business long enough to know when I see a solution in search of a problem. And this one takes the cake.
Leon County, Florida is all upset about something called a "carry loophole" that apparently nobody has ever used. See, Florida law prohibits handguns in courthouses, police stations, and government buildings. But rifles and shotguns? The law is silent on those. So theoretically, you could walk into the Leon County courthouse with a rifle or shotgun.
And you know how many people have done that? Zero. Zilch. Nobody. Not a single soul has tried to exploit this "loophole" that the county is so worried about.
But now, thanks to some busybody county officials who apparently have nothing better to do, they're asking the Florida Legislature to extend those handgun restrictions to ALL firearms. Because apparently, creating new laws for problems that don't exist is just how things work in Tallahassee these days.
Here's the thing - the standard isn't confusing at all. Handguns can't come in. Everything else? Technically can. It's not rocket science. The only people who might be confused are the ones who've never handled a firearm in their lives and can't tell the difference between a pistol and an AR-15. Spoiler: it's pretty obvious.
Now here's what really gets me - by making this a big news story about a "dangerous loophole," they've basically told every nutjob out there exactly where they COULD bring a long gun if they wanted to. Great job, folks. You just created the problem you were pretending to prevent.
This is classic anti-gun logic: "We need to ban this thing because someone MIGHT do something bad someday, even though no one ever has." Meanwhile, law-abiding citizens lose more freedom while the actual bad actors couldn't care less about your laws.
The Bruen decision from the Supreme Court already said governments can't just arbitrarily restrict firearms everywhere. But gun-free zones in government buildings are still allowed. Fine. But extending that to rifles and shotguns when there's been zero incidents? That's just more of the same gun-control-overreach we've been fighting for years.
If Leon County wants to protect people, maybe they should focus on actual security instead of new laws that punish the thousands of responsible gun owners who have never and would never cause problems.