Florida Man’s Gun Business Silenced by Government Bureaucracy

By Jenn Jacques

Charlie Mondale is a Florida small business owner who loves guns. But this Lakeland man can’t do everything he wants to when it comes to his Second Amendment rights. While he can own and sell guns, Polk County has said he can’t build them for profit: even though another man just a few miles away is doing the same thing.

“I have to have this license to start,” said Mondale. “I can’t even begin seeing if my ideas will work until I legally have the ability to do so because it’s a $10,000 fine per silencer if they’re not tagged.”

The Florida businessman said when he was looking to combine his love of guns with the need to turn a profit, he decided to use the machine shop located on his property to build silencers. But when he tried to get approval from Polk County, he received a shocking answer: no.

Mondale showed 10News a letter from the county. It authorizes his Lakeland neighbor to do the exact same thing Mondale wants to do.

It says Polk County is pre-empted by relevant statutes from the state and has no authority to regulate home manufacturing of firearms.

So although his dream is to manufacture a newly …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms