Corrine Brown began her prison sentence, Alachua County and Gainesville leaders squabbled over seemingly every issue large and small, and six weeks into the new year, the Valentine’s Day school shooting in Parkland changed much about what was to unfold. It was a busy year in local and statewide Florida …
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Many of the marchers felt excluded from the national dialogue at a time when the majority of Americans are calling for enhanced firearm regulations, and they wanted to ensure that gun control advocates don’t monopolize the conversation.
Read More »Rejecting arguments by Second Amendment supporters, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a longstanding state ban on people openly carrying firearms in public.
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Republican lawmakers have introduced proposals to allow the more than 1.7 million people with concealed-carry licenses to bring guns to places such as college and university campuses, airport terminals and government meetings.
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A measure that would reduce the penalty for people who briefly display a firearm in public and make it a non-criminal offense was been filed in the House on Friday. The proposal would change what is currently a second-degree misdemeanor charge into a $25 noncriminal violation that can be paid to a county clerk of the court.
Read More »An appeals court Friday rejected a lawsuit filed by gun-rights groups that challenged the city of Tallahassee over decades-old firearms ordinances that conflict with state law.
Read More »On Wednesday, Florida Commissioner of Agriculture Adam H. Putnam announced that Florida concealed weapon licenses can now be renewed online.
Read More »Florida Carry challenges 30-year-old concealed-weapons law in Florida Supreme Court on behalf of Fort. Pierce man.
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Florida Carry, a gun rights group, wants a different judge to preside over their lawsuit against FSU. The group said that the judge had donated significant mounts of money to the school in the past, and was partial to the university.
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As is customary, the Supreme Court did not explain its reasons for declining to take up the case.
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