{"id":42489,"date":"2025-11-11T14:48:06","date_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/42489\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T14:48:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-11T14:48:06","slug":"leon-county-commission-supports-common-sense-gun-reform-policies-tallahassee-reports","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/42489\/","title":{"rendered":"Leon County Commission Supports \u201cCommon Sense\u201d Gun Reform Policies \u2013 Tallahassee Reports"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2025%2F11%2F11%2Fleon-county-commission-supports-common-sense-gun-reform-policies%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Leon+County+Commission+Supports+%26%238220%3BCommon+Sense%26%238221%3B+Gun+Reform+Policies https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2025\/11\/11\/leon-county-commission-supports-common-sense-gun-reform-policies\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>During the Leon County Commission meeting addressing state and federal legislative priorities, Commissioner O\u2019Keefe moved to adopt four gun \u201ccommon sense\u201d reform policies, with Commissioner Proctor seconding the motion.<\/p>\n<p>The first policy requires universal background checks, which would close loopholes that allow people to purchase guns from unlicensed sellers without a background check. The second is secure gun storage laws, which would require the owner to secure the firearm in a place that unauthorized people cannot access. The implementation of extreme risk protection orders, or red flag laws, would allow a judge to temporarily restrict a person\u2019s access to firearms if they present a high risk of harm. The final policy is to require gun owners to report lost and stolen guns to law enforcement.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Brian Welch did not support the policies, as he claims, \u201cWe don\u2019t have any ability to affect any meaningful change in this arena\u2026we take actions like this and then the state just preempts us\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u201c\u2026I can say that right here in the microphone. I support common-sense gun safety reform\u201d, said Welch.<\/p>\n<p>Commissioner Nick Maddox followed by explaining, \u201cSometimes, we do things and it\u2019s just\u2026an attempt to show we support, but we know it ain\u2019t going to quite get done.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Approving the policies, Commissioner Proctor responded by stating, \u201cSilence is not our best and strongest response.\u201d Emphasizing that change will not happen unless one \u201cgoes against the grain.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The commonsense gun policies were passed 5-2, with Commissioner Welch and Caban in opposition.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Ftallahasseereports.com%2F2025%2F11%2F11%2Fleon-county-commission-supports-common-sense-gun-reform-policies%2F\" style=\"display:inline-block;\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> <img decoding=\"async\" class=\"sfsi_wicon\" data-pin-nopin=\"true\" width=\"auto\" height=\"auto\" alt=\"fb-share-icon\" title=\"Facebook Share\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/fb_icons\/en_US.svg\"\/><\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=Leon+County+Commission+Supports+%26%238220%3BCommon+Sense%26%238221%3B+Gun+Reform+Policies https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/2025\/11\/11\/leon-county-commission-supports-common-sense-gun-reform-policies\/\" style=\"display:inline-block\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" nopin=\"nopin\" width=\"auto\" class=\"sfsi_plus_wicon\" src=\"https:\/\/tallahasseereports.com\/wp-content\/plugins\/ultimate-social-media-plus\/images\/share_icons\/Twitter_Tweet\/en_US_Tweet.svg\" alt=\"Tweet\" title=\"Tweet\"\/>&#13;<br \/>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/a><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"&#13; &#13; During the Leon County Commission meeting addressing state and federal legislative priorities, Commissioner O\u2019Keefe moved to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":42490,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16],"tags":[232,234,233],"class_list":["post-42489","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee","tag-tallahassee-headlines","tag-tallahassee-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42489","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=42489"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/42489\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/42490"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=42489"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=42489"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=42489"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}