In the wake of the tragic school shooting in Parkland, Florida significantly improved its gun laws, but still has a long way to go.
Florida’s package of reforms in 2018 included creating an extreme risk protection law, raising the minimum age to purchase firearms from dealers to 21, requiring a three-day waiting period on purchases from dealers, and closing the Charleston Loophole. In 2022, Florida had the 33rd highest gun death rate among the states. In an average year, 3,038 people die from gun violence in the state. That means someone dies from gun violence every 3 hours. Sixty-one percent of those deaths are gun suicides, and 36% are gun homicides.
What Florida Does Well
- Minimum age laws
- Extreme risk protection orders
- Waiting periods
- Open carry regulations
- Child access prevention laws
- Extended background check period
- State database background checks
- Bump stock ban
What Florida Is Missing
- Concealed carry licensing
- Universal background checks
- Gun owner licensing
- Most domestic violence gun laws
- Assault weapon restrictions
- Large capacity magazine ban
- Community violence intervention funding
- Lost & stolen firearm reporting
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