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Florida · 2025 Regular Session

H0031 Carrying and Possession of Weapons and Firearms

Direction

Firearms carryAI label

Expands gun access model confidence 90%

Allows open carry of otherwise legal firearms by deleting the prior prohibition on open carry and making it generally lawful, while also prohibiting unlicensed carry of concealed handguns or unconcealed firearms (with a minor ID requirement and penalties), so more ability to openly carry firearms.

(1) Except as otherwise provided by law and in subsection (2), it is lawful unlawful for any person to openly carry on or about his or her person any otherwise legal firearm or electric weapon or device.

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Firearms preemption sanctuaryAI label

Expands gun access model confidence 80%

Deletes exceptions to statutory protections of the right to keep and bear arms in motor vehicles and removes school districts' ability to restrict firearm possession in vehicles for student parking, reducing local restrictions on firearms.

deleting specified exceptions to statutory protections of the right to keep and bear arms in motor vehicles;

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Firearms red flag erpoAI label

Expands gun access model confidence 95%

Repeals the entire statute relating to risk protection orders (extreme risk protection orders), eliminating the mechanism to temporarily remove firearms from at-risk individuals.

repealing s. 790.401, F.S., relating to risk protection orders;

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Firearms weapon accessory restrictionsAI label

No change to gun access model confidence 70%

Revises the definition of "bump-fire stock" to a narrower version that still prohibits possession, sale, etc., of devices that increase rate of fire beyond unassisted semiautomatic, maintaining the core restriction but with updated language.

As used in this section, the term "bump-fire stock" means a conversion kit, a tool, an accessory, or a device used to alter the rate of fire of a firearm to mimic automatic weapon fire or which is used to increase the rate of fire to a faster rate than is possible for a person to fire such semiautomatic firearm unassisted by a kit, a tool, an accessory, or a device.

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Firearms otherAI label

Mixed gun access model confidence 60%

Repeals the exemption from licensing for law enforcement officers, adds judicial officers to the definition of law enforcement officer, prohibits unlicensed carry/possession without ID (with penalties), and makes other conforming changes that overall add requirements for carrying while expanding the

prohibiting the carrying of a concealed handgun or an unconcealed firearm without a license and the possession of such handgun or firearm without valid identification; providing penalties;

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  1. Filed
  2. Committee
  3. Passed one chamber
  4. Passed both
  5. Governor
  6. Law

Status: Died (session ended)

Last action
2025-01-02: Withdrawn prior to introduction
Filed
2024-12-09
Sponsor
Joel Rudman R

Why the model tagged it this way: The bill primarily expands the ability to carry firearms by legalizing open carry, repealing the red-flag law, and removing certain vehicle and school restrictions, while adding a new prohibition on unlicensed carry of concealed or unconcealed firearms (with ID and penalty provisions) and repealing some exemptions, resulting in mixed effects on licensing and other rules; no substantive provisions on transgender, abortion, or immigration-enforcement topics.

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History (2 actions)
DateChamberAction
2025-01-02HWithdrawn prior to introduction
2024-12-09HFiled