S0252 Weapons and Firearms

↓Restricts gun access model confidence 95%

Requires background checks and licensed-dealer processing for all private firearm sales and transfers between unlicensed persons (with listed exceptions), so more background checks before private transfers.

All persons involved in a firearm sale or other transfer, in whole or in part, shall be subject to a background check unless specifically exempted by state or federal law.

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↓Restricts gun access model confidence 90%

Expands safe-storage requirements to cover access by any prohibited user (not just minors), raises the minor age from 16 to 18, mandates locked box/container or trigger lock (removing the prior 'location a reasonable person would believe to be secure' option), and increases some penalties, so more (

A person who stores or leaves, on a premise under his or her control, a firearm, as defined in s. 790.001, and who knows or reasonably should know that a prohibited user is likely to gain access to the firearm, shall keep the firearm in a securely locked box or container or shall secure it with a trigger lock

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↓Restricts gun access model confidence 90%

Prohibits manufacture, assembly, sale, import, purchase, offer for sale or transfer of firearms without a valid serial number, unfinished frames/receivers, undetectable firearms, and use of 3D printers or CNC machines primarily for making firearms or related items (with exceptions), so fewer such un

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; prohibiting specified acts involving unfinished firearm frames or receivers; prohibiting specified acts involving undetectable firearms; prohibiting certain activities involving a three-dimensional printer or computer numerical control milling machine

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↓Restricts gun access model confidence 85%

Requires licensed dealers to include a trigger lock or secure gun case with every firearm sale (with exceptions and recordkeeping), updates and expands the written warnings and safety materials given to purchasers, and adds record-retention and signed-statement requirements, so more mandated safety/

a licensed dealer may not sell a firearm in this state unless the sale includes one of the following: (a) A commercially available trigger lock or other device designed to disable the firearm and prevent the discharge of the firearm. (b) A commercially available gun case or storage container that can be secured to prevent unauthorized access to the firearm.

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