Boundary Violation: Gun Politics in the Doctor’s Office in 2016

By Ammoland

USA – -(Ammoland.com)- Well before Florida’s Amber Ullman incident in the summer of 2010, gun control activist doctors had been poking and prodding a sore spot.

The American Academy of Pediatrics in particular had declared a culture war on gun owners and advanced the battle into exam rooms across America. They were questioning their patients and their parents about guns in their homes. Patients were outraged, the people of Florida responded through their legislature, and the parties squared off in a continuing court case, Wollschlaeger v. Governor of Florida.

In response to the Ullman episode and others like it, Florida’s legislature passed the Firearm Owners Privacy Act (FOPA) in 2011. The Florida chapters of the American Academy of Pediatrics, the American Academy of Family Practice, and the American College of Physicians were among a group of plaintiffs who sued to stop enforcement of the law, and FOPA has been in litigation ever since.

Doctors for Responsible Gun Ownership has long opposed the gun prohibition agendas of these three national medical organizations. …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand