Hello again everyone. Welcome to Washington Gun Law tv. I'm Washington Gun Law President William Kirk. Thanks for joining us. Hey, we're going to get to talk about a state that we rarely get a chance to talk about, which is Florida. Why do we rarely talk about Florida? Well, because Florida does a pretty darn good job of letting its citizens live like well Americans. Well, it appears that there's at least one representative down there in the state of Florida that thinks, well, a little bit more freedom and liberty might do Florida some good, and has proposed a house bill that candidly would completely and radically rewrite Florida gun laws by essentially removing a lot of Florida gun laws. We're going to spend some time and geek out about it because it's nice to see a state that's going the opposite direction of what most states we talk about here. So today, let's spend a few minutes and let's talk about Florida, a state taking a wrecking ball to its gun laws.
Okay, before we get going too far down the road, we're going down. Let's remember that this video is being brought to us by the Sonoran Desert Institute. That's right. Get ready to start arming yourself with education today. Get ready to launch your career in the firearm industry today, and most importantly, get ready to start defending the inalienable rights of millions of Americans nationwide all through our greatest act, which is of course, education. Listen, the Sonoran Desert Institute has a class certificate or degree for just about anything that you may desire. So check 'em out today. It's simple. Just go down there to the description box below, or easier yet, visit 'em at sdi.edu. Okay, Florida. Here's what we're talking about. We're talking about House Bill 31. It is a bill that is sponsored by Dr. Joel Rudman out of your third legislative district. I have had a chance to read all of it.
It is a doozy, but I will tell you that what you see most frequently throughout this bill is what's called strikethroughs, which is essentially laws being repealed. And that's where this is a very radical rewrite of Florida gun laws, not by creating new gun laws, but by stripping the state down to some really essential gun laws. I'm going to go through this real rapid fashion. We're going to link the bill up down below so that you guys can geek out on it for yourself. Maybe you got a couple of lawyers out there in Florida that got a YouTube channel that might do something on this. I don't know. I don't care. But let's talk about House Bill 31. Okay. The first thing as we know is Florida, you got some really weird carry laws. You got concealed carry, you got open carry, kind of sort of.
You got constitutional carry, but maybe you do, maybe you don't. I mean, it is a discombobulated mess. And while I think your heart has always been in the right place, your legislative language has never quite gotten there. This bill will absolutely positively clear that up because Florida statute 7 9 0 0.02 is repealed. That's right. Your entire concealed carry law license is completely repealed. If this bill were to be signed into law, then there are amendments to Florida statute 7 9 0 0.053, which is your very discombobulated open carry of weapons. The new statute, if this becomes law, will be very simple, we'll read as follows, acceptance otherwise provided by law, it is lawful for any person to openly carry on or about his or her person, any otherwise legal firearm or electric weapon or device. That's it. All the other goofy exceptions, all the if this, then that all of it is stripped from the statute.
Now, Florida statute 7 9 0 0.06, they will keep a concealed carrying license in effect. So if you want it for reciprocity reasons or other reasons, but here's the best thing. Anytime that statute mentioned any fee, so any fee that you ever had to pay for licensing, for background checks, for administrative costs, whatever, every single one of those fees now is stripped from the law, which means this is a process that theoretically is a zero cost process. Now for Florida residents, if this bill becomes law also in section six of the bill, there are certain places such as courthouses and legislative places and things like that where the carrying of firearms is not permitted. This bill would actually allow judges, legislators, and certain administrators to designate certain people who would be permitted to carry on that property. In addition, subsection 13 of that statute, which forbids possession of firearms and carrying of firearms on college campuses would be stricken from that statute.
Now, if you go through section eight, that's where a lot of the costs are being stripped out of the statute. So again, you're going to see just about anytime you are paying for licensing, background checks, any other types of administrative things and such as that. Now, the state of Florida, again, if this becomes law, will actually absorb all of those costs, section nine firearms on school grounds. But the firearms that are on school grounds only because they're in a car while the car is on school ground. Once again, Florida, you had this completely discombobulated. Doesn't make a lot of sense. If this, then that kind law, this bill completely cleans it up. If enacted in the law, the law would read exceptions three in a vehicle pursuant to section seven nine oh 0.25, subsection four. So that's it. If you are otherwise lawfully carrying a firearm in your automobile and you are there on school grounds for lawful reasons, then that firearm is lawfully there.
Section 10 of the bill kind of redefines how you define bump stock. It removes from it the, or anything that increases the rate of fire so that it would be faster than what a normal person is possible of doing. That language is removed. Now, what the reason for that is, I don't know. I don't really care. It clearly still appears that bump stocks are still illegal under this statute. And then finally, and this is a big one, flora. This is really big. Section 13 of the bill, Florida 7 9 0 0.401 is repealed. What is 7 9 0 0.401. That is your red flag laws, or as you call 'em, risk protection orders. The entire statutory scheme, which created red flag hearings, red flag orders in the state of Florida would be repealed if this bill were to become law. And then finally, if you go through the last few pages of the bill, you'll see there's a lot of statutes where you could be disqualified from this or precluded from doing this based upon certain convictions.
And since some of this activity now is being taken from the criminal statute, which means it is no longer illegal, it is no longer a disqualifying event as well. And so the legislature's going to have to clean up all of those statutes as well. Now, listen, it's a hefty bill. It's 64 pages long, okay? But we're going to link it all up down below so that you guys can geek out on it. Obviously, we're going to keep very close tabs on it to see what may happen. Once again, it is House Bill 31. It is being sponsored by Dr. Joel Ruman of Florida's third legislative district. If you got any other questions about this or anything else related to what's left of your Second Amendment rights, you guys should know how to get ahold of Washington Gun Law by now. But if you don't, that's okay.
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