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11 January 2004

Times-Union (Florida), Editorial

Just try to follow the twisted logic of legislation passed by two committees that give gun range owners immunity from the state's pollution laws. It goes like this: Florida residents need to practice their gun skills, so ranges are a "necessary component" (the bills' language) of the constitutional right to bear arms. Yet if ranges are forced to clean up the lead and arsenic pollution they cause, they will go out of business and deny Floridians that right. The bills... (GunPolicy.org)

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