Summary of Florida’s New Anti-Gun Law

http://www.alloutdoor.com/ ^ | 03/12/2018 | Russ Chastain

[Jed Eckert]

Bump stock ban, 3-day waiting period, and minimum age of 21.

Florida — and Republicans — are proving they have no interest in preserving liberty, nor in providing for the public safety. Instead, they have hopped on the bandwagon of gun control (and thus larger government) wholeheartedly. Florida’s congress hurriedly passed a sweeping law which reduces individual gun rights while expanding the powers of a police force which failed so publicly and pathetically to use its existing powers to prevent the Parkland school murders last month.

Under the guise of “public safety,” Florida Republicans have made instant felons of anyone who simply owns a bump stock, while making it a felony for anyone younger than 21 to purchase a firearm.

You can view details of the “Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act” here and read the full text of the new law here.

With the swift passage of this — and the even faster signing by turncoat governor Rock Scott — Florida has joined the ranks of those states which enact illogical laws in reaction to events sensationalized by the media and spurred by emotion rather than facts.

In reading through the text of the lengthy bill, I find the following:

• County sheriffs may, at their discretion, create a school guardian program (named for slain coach Aaron Feis) — which excludes most classroom teachers and has a laundry list of requirements for those who would essentially be armed guards in schools.
• Police may serve an ex parte order upon an individual at any time and may “use such reasonable physical force as is necessary to gain entry to the premises, and any dwellings, buildings, or other structures located on the premises, and take custody of the person,” at which time the officer “may seize and hold a firearm or any ammunition… if the person poses a potential danger to himself or herself or others and has made a credible threat of violence against another person.”
• “A person who has been adjudicated mentally defective or who has been committed to a mental institution, as those terms are defined in s. 790.065(2), may not own a firearm or possess a firearm until relief from the firearm possession and firearm ownership disability is obtained.”
• Minimum age to purchase a firearm is 21 (violation is a felony) — unless of course the buyer is a police or corrections officer.
• Mandatory 3-day waiting period between purchase and delivery of a firearm from a licensed dealer. Need a gun fast? Forget about it. Oh, and the 3 days don’t include weekends or holidays.
• You are exempt from the waiting period if you have a concealed carry license or are trading in another gun.
• For rifles and shotguns, you are exempt from the waiting period if you have completed a hunter safety course and have the card to prove it, are exempt from hunter safety requirements AND have a valid Florida hunting license, or you are a cop or corrections officer.
• Violating the waiting period is a 3rd-degree felony.
• Includes a firearm registry of sorts — “Records of firearm sales must be available for inspection by any law enforcement agency, as defined in s. 934.02, during normal business hours.” (Section 33 specifies exceptions to Florida’s so-called prohibition of firearm registration.)
• Bump-fire stocks are banned, making an instant felon of anyone who has one. “A person may not import into this state or transfer, distribute, sell, keep for sale, offer for sale, possess, or give to another person a bump fire stock. A person who violates this section commits a felony of the third degree, punishable as provided in s. 775.082, s. 775.083, or s. 775.084.”
• Expands police powers by “providing a judicial procedure for law enforcement officers to obtain a court order temporarily restricting a person’s access to firearms and ammunition.” (This essentially gives even more power to the government agencies which failed utterly to prevent the murders which precipitated this law.)
• Makes the act of threatening “a mass shooting or act of terrorism” a 2nd-degree felony.
• Creates a “School Safety Awareness Program” which must “competitively procure a mobile suspicious activity reporting tool that allows students and the community to relay information anonymously concerning unsafe, potentially harmful, dangerous, violent, or criminal activities, or the threat of these activities, to appropriate public safety agencies and school officials.”
• Creates a “Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission” (yay, more government….) to “investigate system failures in the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and prior mass violence incidents in this state and develop recommendations for system improvements. At a minimum, the commission shall analyze information and evidence from the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School shooting and other mass violence incidents in this state.”
• Creates an “Office of Safe Schools” within the Department of Education to “serve as a central repository for best practices, training standards, and compliance oversight in all matters regarding school safety and security, including prevention efforts, intervention efforts, and emergency preparedness planning.”
• Requires students to disclose previous “referrals to mental health services” when registering for school.
• Requires “each district school board and school district superintendent [to] partner with law enforcement agencies to establish or assign one or more safe-school officers at each school facility within the district.”
• Requires school boards to have a “threat assessment team” to “consult with law enforcement when a student exhibits a pattern of behavior, based upon previous acts or the severity of an act, that would pose a threat to school safety.”
• Creates a new Statute called the “Florida Safe Schools Assessment Tool” which requires contracting a private “security consulting firm that specializes in the development of risk assessment software solutions and has experience in conducting security assessments of public facilities to develop, update, and implement a risk assessment tool” which “must be used by school officials at each school district and public school site in the state in conducting security assessments for use by school officials at each school district and public school site in the state.” (Gee, what could possibly go wrong?)
• Calls for spending a lot of money (you can view a breakdown here).

I don’t know what else to say, except to point out that if you still rely on Republicans to safeguard your rights, you’re sadly mistaken.

[Jed Eckert]

But they fe-e-e-l so good about themselves!

We'll see how good they feel at election time.

[IYAS9YAS]

There's been a 21 year old age limit on the purchase of pistols for some years now.

Which should also be returned to 18.

[Spirochete]

What locust voters have done to the “Gunshine State”.

[Bringbackthedraft]

Meanwhile, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel is still on the job. ........................... Awaiting his next political step up.

[Jed Eckert]

......My comment is more regarding democracy in general. In a democracy you not only get the government you want. You get the government you deserve.

Agreed. Too often we fall into the trap of voting for "the lesser of two evils" or " the other guy is much worse, you may not agree with candidate x but he's still better than the other guy".

And then we have the outright liars, scoundrels and turncoats Like Gov. Scott and his fellow traitors.

Cicero nailed it:
"A nation can survive its fools, and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and carries his banner openly. But the traitor moves amongst those within the gate freely, his sly whispers rustling through all the alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself."
Marcus Tullius Cicero

[grobdriver]

Which should also be returned to 18

Agreed.

That law has sure helped to keep handguns away from kids in Chicago...

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[Jed Eckert]

Remember in the next primary to get that idiot out of the governor’s office!!!

Term limits, so he's already on his way out as Governor. Now he wants to be a Senator so he can back stab some more and help screw up the rest of the States. Not gonna happen if we can help it.

[Purdue77]

”Expands police powers by “providing a judicial procedure for law enforcement officers to obtain a court order temporarily restricting a person’s access to firearms and ammunition.” (This essentially gives even more power to the government agencies which failed utterly to prevent the murders which precipitated this law.)”

During a disaster such as a major hurricane, can this law give the police the legal authority to restrict guns from a broad class of citizens?

[ripnbang]

They’re both for gun control and at least I knew that with Sen. Nelson...unfortunately, just found that out about Gov. Scott.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Its also the end of Rick Scotts political career.

[farming pharmer]

When you elect cowards, this is what you get. The GOP has no shortage of them either.

[upchuck]

Not from FL but assume this will be challenged. Hopefully in the first court case on this the judge will issue a stay. Hope this can be settled quickly in court.

What part of, “shall not be infringed” don’t they understand? Idiots. Lots of money and man hours will be wasted on getting this dumped.

[Jed Eckert]

During a disaster such as a major hurricane, can this law give the police the legal authority to restrict guns from a broad class of citizens?

Doubt it.

Florida Statutes 790.01(3) (a) which provides that you may now carry a “concealed ” weapon or firearm “on or about your person” during a mandatory evacuation “while in the act of evacuating”. No CWL is required – however, the weapon or firearm must be kept concealed

There is also another law (signed by Jeb, can't find the statute right now) that says cops can't confiscate firearms if you're evacuating or hunkering down with your firearms(Like what happened in New Orleans during Katrina).Just don't walk around with them uncased except on your own property.

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

Always remember that back in the 1980s the Brady Center (Handgun Control Inc) set their sights on Florida for an anti-gun push.

[SecAmndmt]

NRA ‘A’ rating means you vote the way NRA wants you to. If NRA supports a bad bill, and you vote against, bye-bye ‘A’ rating.

GOA, on the other hand, grades based on 2A principles. Much harder to get the GOA ‘A’ grade.

That said, Dana Loesch seems a fine woman :-)

[mosesdapoet]

SHAME ON THOSE AR 15’S FOR WHAT HAPPENED AT THE PARKLAND SCHOOL ?

WHY BLAME GUNS ? NOT GOVERNMENT POLICIES FAILURES

The inability to counter this perverted (they call progressive) agenda created by the democratic party ( in name only) has its goose stepping adherents in the media left make it up as guns and the NRA garbage through their swill mills. When it should be contested by GOP state and federal legislators who should be demanding investigative hearings exposing policy failures

DON’T MENTION THIS
Besides examining the conduct ( cops told not to enter other dept called and does those cops disciplined because they did) and arrangements of the Broward County Sheriff’s Dept made with this school district performance failures due to policy. A dramatic reduction in disciplinary incidents at Parkland were reported after the selection of Obama’s Chicago friend as school superintendent occurred which was publicly acclaimed.

Because that school district was receiving large grant money from Obama’s Attorney General because of those results. That many critics claimed encouraged criminal activity. Which should require Trump Administration US Attorney General beside find out why when the FBI knew that Cruz who should not been able to purchase weapons did. And review these grant programs instituted by the previous Obama administration.
http://www.theusmat.com/index.htm

[dsc]

“In a democracy you not only get the government you want. You get the government you deserve.”

That is only true if you have reasonably honest sources of information.

Anybody can be deceived, but that doesn’t mean that the deceived deserve what happens as a result.

[jch10]

Your opinion. I will never willingly let a D be elected.

[jch10]

Yes, you are right.

Scott is not a Bush era guy. He would help Trump, i think. Nelson definitely will not.