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 Copied and pasted from email:   After violating Florida's preemption statute, City of Okeechobee ignores warning from Florida Carry, Inc. The five-member Okeechobee, Florida city council and Police Chief Donald Hagan may each be forced to pay $5,000 personally – without using taxpayer dollars – for violating Florida’s powerful preemption statute, which only allows the state legislature to regulate firearms.   As previously reported ,  the city adopted an illegal ordinance shortly before Hurricane Helene made landfall, which banned the sale of guns and ammunition and prohibited firearm possession in public by anyone other than law enforcement or members of the military.    After learning of the civil rights violation,  Florida Carry, Inc.   sent a demand letter titled  Written Notice of Preemption Violation and Offer of Settlement , to the city council and Chief Hagan, warning the recipients they have violated Florida’s preemption statut...

[Reposted from Internet Archive capture of Gun Rights Examiner article, so no effort made to update internal links.] January 5, 2011By: David Codrea Mexican Crime ATF 'Authorized Journalists' Gun Rights Gun control Advertisement “Guatemala's top security official says the Zetas drug gang from Mexico had set up an operations center in the border province of Alta Verapaz,” the   Associated Press   reports . Regular readers will recall how the criminal enterprise started by rogue Mexican special forces operatives has expanded its influence— first as enforcers for the Gulf Cartel and now as a rival power . That they’ve established themselves in neighboring Guatemala is hardly surprising, and would appear to circumstantially dovetail with   another development being reported   by Tim Johnson, Mexico Bureau Chief for McClatchy Newspapers: Mexico… is also flooded with hand grenades. From what I am told, some of the grenade stockpiles are coming up from leftover military dep...