DATE CREATED: November 17, 2023
LAST ACTION DATE: 03/08/2024
LAST AMENDMENT DATE: 11/17/2023
PROGRESS: Dead
BILL ID: S0518
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REGION: FL
An act relating to weapons and firearms; providing a short title; creating s. 790.0653, F.S.; providing definitions; requiring background checks on all persons involved in a firearm sale or other transfer; requiring firearm sales or other transfers between unlicensed persons to be conducted through, and processed by, a licensed dealer; specifying requirements for firearm sales or transfers through licensed dealers; authorizing a fee; providing exceptions; providing criminal penalties; requiring the investigating law enforcement agency to report certain violations to the Attorney General; providing applicability; amending s. 790.174, F.S.; revising requirements for the safe storage of firearms; revising criminal penalties for violations; providing exceptions; providing and revising definitions; amending s. 790.175, F.S.; prohibiting licensed dealers from selling firearms without trigger locks or gun cases; providing exceptions; revising required written warnings to be delivered by licensed dealers to purchasers or transferees upon retail commercial sales or retail transfers of firearms; requiring certain written materials to be delivered to gun purchasers; providing applicability; requiring licensed dealers and purchasers to sign a specified statement; providing record retention requirements for licensed dealers; providing construction; providing criminal penalties; defining the term “licensed dealer”; creating s. 790.223, F.S.; providing definitions; prohibiting certain actions leading to the manufacture or assembly, 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 that has the primary or intended function of manufacturing or assembling firearms or related items; providing an exception; providing criminal penalties; providing applicability; providing construction; defining the term “licensed dealer”; providing an effective date.
SESSION: 2024 Regular Session
LAST ACTION: Died in Criminal Justice
ACTIONS: 4
SPONSORS: Tina Polsky (D)*
KEYWORDS: Administrative Costs Incurred, Close Proximity Thereto, Metal Detector Calibrated, Ray Machines Commonly, Voluntary Buyback Program, Imprint Serial Numbers, Common Controlling Interest, Great Bodily Harm, “Federally Licensed Gunsmith, Applicable Waiting Period