Florida officials have put forward a proposal to prohibit tracking firearms and ammunition purchases, arguing that the collection of data by state financial institutions violates the Second Amendment.
The trio of Florida state officials—all Republicans—on Jan. 10 laid out the “Florida Arms and Ammo Act,” a first-in-the-nation policy proposal to bar tracking guns and ammo sales via merchant category codes.
Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Wilton Simpson, along with State Sen. Danny Burgess and State Rep. John Snyder, argued that the adoption of the tracking codes would create a quasi-registry of Floridians who have bought guns and ammo legally.
“We are all blessed to live in the free state of Florida where our Second Amendment rights are valued and protected, but Democrats in Washington continue to try to chip away at these rights–and we must stay vigilant,”  Simpson, the former Senate president who was recently sworn in as agriculture commissioner, said in a statement….