Ch. 790 WEAPONS AND FIREARMS F.S. 2017
790.23 Felons and delinquents; possession of
firearms, ammunition, or electric weapons
or devices unlawful.
790.233 Possession of firearm or ammunition prohibited
when person is subject to an
injunction against committing acts of
domestic violence, stalking, or cyberstalking;
penalties.
790.235 Possession of firearm or ammunition by
violent career criminal unlawful; penalty.
790.24 Report of medical treatment of certain
wounds; penalty for failure to report.
790.25 Lawful ownership, possession, and use of
firearms and other weapons.
790.251 Protection of the right to keep and bear
arms in motor vehicles for self-defense
and other lawful purposes; prohibited
acts; duty of public and private employers;
immunity from liability; enforcement.
790.256 Public service announcements.
790.27 Alteration or removal of firearm serial
number or possession, sale, or delivery
of firearm with serial number altered or
removed prohibited; penalties.
790.29 Paramilitary training; teaching or participation
prohibited.
790.31 Armor-piercing or exploding ammunition or
dragon’s breath shotgun shells, bolo
shells, or flechette shells prohibited.
790.33 Field of regulation of firearms and ammunition
preempted.
790.331 Prohibition of civil actions against firearms
or ammunition manufacturers, firearms
trade associations, firearms or ammunition
distributors, or firearms or ammunition
dealers.
790.333 Sport shooting and training range protection;
liability; claims, expenses, and fees;
penalties; preemption; construction.
790.335 Prohibition of registration of firearms; electronic
records.
790.336 Lists, records, or registries to be destroyed.
790.338 Medical privacy concerning firearms; prohibitions;
penalties; exceptions.
790.001 Definitions.—As used in this chapter,
except where the context otherwise requires:
(1) “Antique firearm” means any firearm manufactured
in or before 1918 (including any matchlock,
flintlock, percussion cap, or similar early type of ignition
system) or replica thereof, whether actually manufactured
before or after the year 1918, and also any firearm
using fixed ammunition manufactured in or before 1918,
for which ammunition is no longer manufactured in the
United States and is not readily available in the ordinary
channels of commercial trade.
(2) “Concealed firearm” means any firearm, as
defined in subsection (6), which is carried on or about
a person in such a manner as to conceal the firearm
from the ordinary sight of another person.
(3)(a) “Concealed weapon” means any dirk, metallic
knuckles, billie, tear gas gun, chemical weapon or
device, or other deadly weapon carried on or about a
person in such a manner as to conceal the weapon from
the ordinary sight of another person.
(b) “Tear gas gun” or “chemical weapon or device”
means any weapon of such nature, except a device
known as a “self-defense chemical spray.” “Self-defense
chemical spray” means a device carried solely for
purposes of lawful self-defense that is compact in size,
designed to be carried on or about the person, and
contains not more than two ounces of chemical.
(4) “Destructive device” means any bomb, grenade,
mine, rocket, missile, pipebomb, or similar device
containing an explosive, incendiary, or poison gas
and includes any frangible container filled with an
explosive, incendiary, explosive gas, or expanding
gas, which is designed or so constructed as to explode
by such filler and is capable of causing bodily harm or
property damage; any combination of parts either
designed or intended for use in converting any device
into a destructive device and from which a destructive
device may be readily assembled; any device declared
a destructive device by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco,
and Firearms; any type of weapon which will, is
designed to, or may readily be converted to expel a
projectile by the action of any explosive and which has a
barrel with a bore of one-half inch or more in diameter;
and ammunition for such destructive devices, but not
including shotgun shells or any other ammunition
designed for use in a firearm other than a destructive
device. “Destructive device” does not include:
(a) A device which is not designed, redesigned,
used, or intended for use as a weapon;
(b) Any device, although originally designed as a
weapon, which is redesigned so that it may be used
solely as a signaling, line-throwing, safety, or similar
device;
(c) Any shotgun other than a short-barreled shotgun;
or
(d) Any nonautomatic rifle (other than a shortbarreled
rifle) generally recognized or particularly suitable
for use for the hunting of big game.
(5) “Explosive” means any chemical compound or
mixture that has the property of yielding readily to
combustion or oxidation upon application of heat, flame,
or shock, including but not limited to dynamite, nitroglycerin,
trinitrotoluene, or ammonium nitrate when combined
with other ingredients to form an explosive
mixture, blasting caps, and detonators; but not including:
(a) Shotgun shells, cartridges, or ammunition for
firearms;
(b) Fireworks as defined in s. 791.01;
(c) Smokeless propellant powder or small arms
ammunition primers, if possessed, purchased, sold,
transported, or used in compliance with s. 552.241;
(d) Black powder in quantities not to exceed that
authorized by chapter 552, or by any rules adopted
thereunder by the Department of Financial Services,
when used for, or intended to be used for, the
manufacture of target and sporting ammunition or for
use in muzzle-loading flint or percussion weapons.
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