Guns

It’s part of a Republican push to protect 2nd amendment rights.

An open carry billed filed for consideration during the 2025 Legislative Session would allow Floridians to openly carry firearms and repeal a “red-flag” law passed after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

Florida gun owners are speculating whether 2025 will be the year the state finally passes a law that allows open carry.

The National Rifle Association filed a lawsuit challenging the age restriction shortly after then-Gov. Rick Scott and the Republican-controlled Legislature rushed to include it in a sweeping school-safety bill that passed after the February 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.

The Biden administration this week urged a U.S. district judge to toss out a Florida lawsuit challenging a new federal rule that requires more gun sellers to be licensed and run background checks on buyers, disputing state arguments about lost tax revenue from gun shows.

Florida this week revamped a lawsuit that challenges a new federal rule requiring more gun sellers to be licensed and run background checks on buyers, in part pointing to lower attendance at gun shows.

Second Amendment groups and a Palm Beach County gun owner Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Florida law that bars people from openly carrying firearms.

The Biden administration this week urged a judge to toss out a Florida lawsuit challenging a new federal rule that will require more gun sellers to be licensed and run background checks on buyers.

Mass shootings are most commonly perpetrated by young men. Experts say most extremist attacks in the past few decades have been motivated by right-wing ideologies.

In 2023, the Transportation Security Administration reported seizing 6,737 firearms at airport checkpoints, the most in the agency’s 23-year history.

A ruling by a state appeals court in a little-noticed, nearly two-year court battle over a drug arrest in central Florida may have broad implications for Second Amendment rights in a state with so many owners of firearms that it’s sometimes called the “Gunshine State.”

A House Republican has renewed an attempt to lower the minimum age from 21 to 18 for people to buy rifles and other long guns in Florida, potentially reversing part of a law that passed in the aftermath of the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.