May 28, 2023

CAIR Florida, Inc. v. TEOTWAWKI Investments, LLC (Florida Gun Supply)

In 2015, CAIR Florida, Inc. filed a federal civil rights lawsuit against TEOTWAWKI Investments, LLC, the company that owns and operates Florida Gun Supply, because its owner declared his retail gun supply store a “Mulsim Free Zone” following the Chattanooga, Tennessee terrorist attack in which five servicemembers were gunned down.

Nonetheless, CAIR-Florida sued Florida Gun Supply, allegeing religious discrimination under Title II of the Civil Rights Act.

CAIR-Florida claims that it is being unlawfully denied the “full and equal enjoyment of the goods, services, facilities, privileges, advantages, and accommodations of [a] place of public accommodation” on the basis of religioin.

AFLC has filed a motion requesting that the court dismiss the case.

CASE UPDATE (November 24, 2015): the federal court granted AFLC’s motion to dismiss CAIR’s lawsuit.