Posted October 8, 2019 8:08 pm by Comments

By John Crump

Florida Carry Alleges Illegal Activities By The Charlotte County Sheriff's Dept.

Opinion

Florida Carry Alleges Illegal Activities By The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Dept.

Charlotte County, FL-(Ammoland.com)- It is alleged that the Charlotte County, Florida Sheriff’s Department has been illegally holding gun owners’ personal information, according to Florida Carry.

As reported by thegunwriter.com, Florida Carry sent a letter to Attorney General Ashley Moody demanding that she launches a statewide investigation into law enforcement’s “illegal abuse, misuse, and general operation of the FINDER database including the compilation of lists of gun owners, and illegal retention of records.”

Florida Carry is alleging that the Charlotte County Sheriff’s Department has committed a felony by unlawfully storing gun owner’s information. According to Florida Statute 790.335, No government agency can “knowingly and willfully keep or cause to be kept any list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or any list, record, or registry of the owners of those firearms.”

Pawn stores must enter all pawn transactions into the FINDER database. The Charlotte County Sheriff’s Department, under the direction of Sheriff Bill Prummell, took it upon themselves to data-mine these transactions to investigate the people pawning their firearms.

In the act of pawning, a person …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand

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