14 total bills, 13 anti-gun bills,
1 pro-gun bills for this session
Proposed Florida Firearm Legislation
14 total bills, 13 anti-gun bills,
1 pro-gun bills for this session
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Title: Storage of Handguns in Private Conveyances and Vessels
Description: Provides requirements for storage of handguns in private conveyances & vessels; requires law enforcement agencies to engage in specified promotional campaign; requires counties to adopt specified ordinances concerning parents of children who have been found to have stolen handgun from conveyances or vessels.
Last Action: Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 6, 2025
Title: Carrying and Possession of Weapons and Firearms
Description: Prohibits carrying of concealed handgun or unconcealed firearm without license & possession of such handgun or firearm without valid identification; repeals provisions relating to arrests without warrant & exemption from licensing requirements for law enforcement officers; allows open carrying of any otherwise legal firearm or electric weapon or device; revises list of places into which person may not carry handgun or concealed weapon or concealed firearm; provides exceptions; deletes provisions relating to open carry, collection of fees for licenses to carry concealed weapons or concealed firearms, allowing school districts to restrict possession of firearm in vehicle, exceptions to statutory protections of right to keep & bear arms in motor vehicles; revises definition of "bump-fire stock"; repeals provisions for risk protection orders.
Last Action: Withdrawn prior to introduction
Last Action Date: January 2, 2025
Title: Sales of Ammunition
Description: Requires background checks for sale or transfer of ammunition.
Last Action: Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 6, 2025
Title: Pub. Rec./Sales of Ammunition
Description: Provides exemption from public records requirements for records containing certain information pertaining to buyer or transferee who is not found to be prohibited from receipt or transfer of ammunition; provides for future legislative review & repeal of exemption; provides statement of public necessity.
Last Action: Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 6, 2025
Title: Sale, Transfer, and Storage of Firearms
Description: Requires background checks on persons involved in firearm sales or transfers; requires firearm sales or transfers to be conducted through licensed dealer; revises requirements for safe storage of firearms; revises criminal penalties; requires firearms be sold by dealers with trigger locks or gun cases; revises warnings to be posted in gun dealerships; requires certain materials to be given to gun purchasers; prohibits specified acts involving unfinished firearm frames or receivers; prohibits certain activities involving three-dimensional printer or CNC milling machine.
Last Action: Now in Criminal Justice Subcommittee
Last Action Date: January 6, 2025
Title: Sales or Transfers of Firearms to Persons Under 21 Years of Age
Description: Deleting a prohibition on sales or transfers of firearms to persons under 21 years of age and exceptions, etc.
Last Action: Referred to Rules; Appropriations
Last Action Date: January 15, 2025
Title: Safe Storage of Firearms and Ammunition in Motor Vehicles and Vessels
Description: Defining the terms "motor vehicle," "trunk," and "vessel"; requiring persons who store or leave firearms or ammunition in motor vehicles or vessels under their control to keep the firearms or ammunition locked inside specified locations within the motor vehicles or vessels while not in the motor vehicles or vessels; providing criminal penalties, etc.
Last Action: Filed
Last Action Date: January 10, 2025
Title: Possession or Use of a Firearm in a Sensitive Location
Description: Prohibiting the possession or use of a firearm in a sensitive location; providing criminal penalties; providing exceptions, etc.
Last Action: Filed
Last Action Date: January 10, 2025
Title: Storage of Handguns in Private Conveyances and Vessels
Description: Providing requirements for storage of handguns in private conveyances and vessels; requiring law enforcement agencies to engage in a specified promotional campaign; requiring counties to adopt, by a date certain, specified ordinances concerning the parents of children who have been found to have stolen a handgun from a conveyance or vessel, etc.
Last Action: Filed
Last Action Date: January 10, 2025
Title: Preemption of Firearms and Ammunition
Description: Repealing a provision relating to the preemption of the field of regulation of firearms and ammunition to the Legislature, to the exclusion of local jurisdictions, etc.
Last Action: Filed
Last Action Date: January 14, 2025
Title: Weapons and Firearms
Description: Citing this act as the "Responsible Gun Ownership Act"; requiring background checks on all persons involved in a firearm sale or other transfer; specifying requirements for firearm sales or transfers through licensed dealers; providing criminal penalties; prohibiting certain actions leading to the manufacture or assembly, sale, importing, purchasing, offering for sale, or transfer of a firearm not imprinted with a valid serial number, etc.
Last Action: Filed
Last Action Date: January 14, 2025
Title: Firearms
Description: Revising the definition of the term "machine gun"; ranking certain offenses related to bump-fire stocks on level 5 of the offense severity ranking chart of the Criminal Punishment Code, etc.
Last Action: Filed
Last Action Date: January 14, 2025
Title: Sale or Transfer of Ammunition
Description: Citing this act as "Jaime's Law"; requiring background checks for the sale or transfer of ammunition, etc.
Last Action: Filed
Last Action Date: January 14, 2025
Title: Public Records/Sale or Transfer of Ammunition
Description: Providing an exemption from public records requirements for records containing certain information pertaining to a buyer or transferee who is not found to be prohibited from receipt or transfer of ammunition; providing for future legislative review and repeal of the exemption; providing a statement of public necessity, etc.
Last Action: Filed
Last Action Date: January 14, 2025
