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2018 Florida Statutes
                        Chapter 790
WEAPONS AND FIREARMS Entire Chapter
    
    WEAPONS AND FIREARMS Entire Chapter
CHAPTER 790
                WEAPONS AND FIREARMS
            
                        790.001
                        
                    Definitions.
                    
                        790.01
                        
                    Unlicensed carrying of concealed weapons or concealed firearms.
                    
                        790.015
                        
                    Nonresidents who are United States citizens and hold a concealed weapons license in another state; reciprocity.
                    
                        790.02
                        
                    Officer to arrest without warrant and upon probable cause.
                    
                        790.051
                        
                    Exemption from licensing requirements; law enforcement officers.
                    
                        790.052
                        
                    Carrying concealed firearms; off-duty law enforcement officers.
                    
                        790.053
                        
                    Open carrying of weapons.
                    
                        790.054
                        
                    Prohibited use of self-defense weapon or device against law enforcement officer; penalties.
                    
                        790.06
                        
                    License to carry concealed weapon or firearm.
                    
                        790.0601
                        
                    Public records exemption for concealed weapons.
                    
                        790.061
                        
                    Judges and justices; exceptions from licensure provisions.
                    
                        790.062
                        
                    Members and veterans of United States Armed Forces; exceptions from licensure provisions.
                    
                        790.0625
                        
                    Appointment of tax collectors to accept applications for a concealed weapon or firearm license; fees; penalties.
                    
                        790.064
                        
                    Firearm possession and firearm ownership disability.
                    
                        790.065
                        
                    Sale and delivery of firearms.
                    
                        790.0655
                        
                    Purchase and delivery of firearms; mandatory waiting period; exceptions; penalties.
                    
                        790.07
                        
                    Persons engaged in criminal offense, having weapons.
                    
                        790.08
                        
                    Taking possession of weapons and arms; reports; disposition; custody.
                    
                        790.09
                        
                    Manufacturing or selling metallic knuckles.
                    
                        790.10
                        
                    Improper exhibition of dangerous weapons or firearms.
                    
                        790.115
                        
                    Possessing or discharging weapons or firearms at a school-sponsored event or on school property prohibited; penalties; exceptions.
                    
                        790.145
                        
                    Crimes in pharmacies; possession of weapons; penalties.
                    
                        790.15
                        
                    Discharging firearm in public or on residential property.
                    
                        790.151
                        
                    Using firearm while under the influence of alcoholic beverages, chemical substances, or controlled substances; penalties.
                    
                        790.153
                        
                    Tests for impairment or intoxication; right to refuse.
                    
                        790.155
                        
                    Blood test for impairment or intoxication in cases of death or serious bodily injury; right to use reasonable force.
                    
                        790.157
                        
                    Presumption of impairment; testing methods.
                    
                        790.16
                        
                    Discharging machine guns; penalty.
                    
                        790.161
                        
                    Making, possessing, throwing, projecting, placing, or discharging any destructive device or attempt so to do, felony; penalties.
                    
                        790.1612
                        
                    Authorization for governmental manufacture, possession, and use of destructive devices.
                    
                        790.1615
                        
                    Unlawful throwing, projecting, placing, or discharging of destructive device or bomb that results in injury to another; penalty.
                    
                        790.162
                        
                    Threat to throw, project, place, or discharge any destructive device, felony; penalty.
                    
                        790.163
                        
                    False report concerning planting a bomb, an explosive, or a weapon of mass destruction, or concerning the use of firearms in a violent manner; penalty.
                    
                        790.164
                        
                    False reports concerning planting a bomb, explosive, or weapon of mass destruction in, or committing arson against, state-owned property, or concerning the use of firearms in a violent manner; penalty; reward.
                    
                        790.165
                        
                    Planting of "hoax bomb" prohibited; penalties.
                    
                        790.166
                        
                    Manufacture, possession, sale, delivery, display, use, or attempted or threatened use of a weapon of mass destruction or hoax weapon of mass destruction prohibited; definitions; penalties.
                    
                        790.169
                        
                    Juvenile offenders; release of names and addresses.
                    
                        790.17
                        
                    Furnishing weapons to minors under 18 years of age or persons of unsound mind and furnishing firearms to minors under 18 years of age prohibited.
                    
                        790.173
                        
                    Legislative findings and intent.
                    
                        790.174
                        
                    Safe storage of firearms required.
                    
                        790.175
                        
                    Transfer or sale of firearms; required warnings; penalties.
                    
                        790.18
                        
                    Sale or transfer of arms to minors by dealers.
                    
                        790.19
                        
                    Shooting into or throwing deadly missiles into dwellings, public or private buildings, occupied or not occupied; vessels, aircraft, buses, railroad cars, streetcars, or other vehicles.
                    
                        790.22
                        
                    Use of BB guns, air or gas-operated guns, or electric weapons or devices by minor under 16; limitation; possession of firearms by minor under 18 prohibited; penalties.
                    
                        790.221
                        
                    Possession of short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun, or machine gun; penalty.
                    
                        790.222
                        
                    Bump-fire stocks prohibited.
                    
                        790.225
                        
                    Ballistic self-propelled knives; unlawful to manufacture, sell, or possess; forfeiture; penalty.
                    
                        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.
                    
                        790.401
                        
            Risk protection orders.