My landlord, who is also a friend, is only interested in one color, green. If you pay the rent, you are fine by him. He has had more luck with “poor” people, than the “elite” who rent his condo on the Gulf.

This is really an insurance issue. The insurance companies have been pushing for the weapons ban, and there is a penalty in liability premiums if you don’t have one.

Unfortunately(?), there are many similar laws on the books that also infringe on property rights, such as the one requiring the property owner to rent to a black family if the black family is the best qualified even if the property owner is a KKK member who hates blacks. While I agree with the public purpose of these civil rights laws, they do make a rather interesting precedent for other laws that infringe on the rights of property owners, such as the Take Your Cannon To Work law. Once you open up that “public purpose” wormhole, there’s no end to what you can throw into it…

-Badtux the semi-libertarian Penguin