People are being arrested and prosecuted under a 2018 law that banned “bump stocks.”
As currently written, the overly broad law appears to restrict the use of trigger enhancements used by firearms owners for lawful purposes, subjecting them to five years in prison.
Today, my office issued a legal opinion recognizing the law as unconstitutional under the Second Amendment, and this office will not defend a conviction under the statute going forward.
Law-abiding Floridians may possess SBRs and SBSs without NFA registration, a tax stamp, or fear of prosecution under Florida law.
We are issuing guidance and will not defend a conviction on appeal. This office will always defend the Second Amendment rights of peaceable citizens.
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I don’t have the bandwidth to keep up with all decisions from our courts of appeal and I haven’t read any specifically from the 6th DCA.
But if the court is taking fire from a newspaper editorial board I will just assume that the court is over the target.