Just like Stalin, Obama and his crew will attempt to rewrite history and won't hesitate to airbrush people out of pictures to change the "reality" that they want seen.

These people are frightening not because they would disagree with me. They are frightening because of basic lack of character and because they believe that anything they may do is justifiable so long as it helps with what they have decided is "best for all of the little people," who surely "look like ants" from where they live.

Interesting. I have had the same problem with some Florida Attorney General Opinion Letters over the years. Some favorable opinions concerning concealed carry have disappeared.

It's quite likely that the opinions were overridden by changes to the concealed carry statutes.

I've met with McCollum a bunch of times when he wasn't in campaign mode and he has always seemed like a pretty staunch conservative. He's always been unswervingly pro-gun as far back as I can remember. I doubt he is trying to sabotage concealed carry in Florida.

David, what was the original address for this document you listed?

I found Clayton Cramer's analysis of this opinion, which links to the opinion at
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.htm.
It's currently hosted at
http://www.usdoj.gov/olc/secondamendment2.pdf, essentially the same only with ".pdf" instead of ".htm". A quick sampling of opinions from the OLC's opinion table of contents suggests that the longer and more complicated opinions and memoranda, of which this is a prime example, have been converted to PDFs, possibly to preserve pagination and formatting. Certainly the PDFs are easier to read and look far better than the HTML documents, and would print out properly, with their many footnotes at the bottom of the correct pages.

I hate to say it, but I think this link rot is not due to Obama's manifest opacity and misdirection. It's just DOJ doing a better job organizing their archives. (I admit, though, it would have been simple for the archive webmasters to have redirected the original HTML link to the new PDF.)

To elaborate on DJMoore's post, above -

Shockingly, the URL change may not be due to any sinister plot. I think you'll see similar format conversions gradually occurring all over the Federal government. GPO and the Archivist of the United States have been struggling for a long time to come up with generally applicable guidelines for Federal on-line document publication, and I understand now encourage use of .pdf (as a cross-platform format that displays consistently and is usable by individuals needing assistive devices) for permanent documents.

I suspect whatever links there are to the specific document in the usdoj.gov website have also been updated to point to the .pdf version. The problem here may have simply been an outside link directly to a version of the doc that's now unsupported.