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Florida

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Florida. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from the Spanish and British colonial periods through territorial years, statehood, and the present.

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1899 Fla. Laws 280
(1899)
§ 33: Granted the city council the authority to regulate the storage of gun powder, tar, pitch, resin, saltpeter, gun-cotton, coal oil, and all other combustibles, explosives, and inflammable materials. Also the use of lights, candles, lamps, and steam pipes in all stables, shops, and other places.
1887 Fla. Laws 164-65
(1887)
An Act to Establish the Municipality of Jacksonville Provide for its Government and Prescribe it's jurisdiction and powers, chap. 3775, § 4: Granted the city of Jacksonville the authority to regulate and license the sale of firearms and suppress the carrying of concealed weapons.
1899 Fla. Laws 93
(1899)
An Act for the Better Protection of Passengers on Railway Trains in the State of Florida, ch. 4701, §§ 1-2: Prohibited discharge of any gun, pistol, or other firearm on any passenger train. Also prohibited reckless handle of any firearm or other weapon in the present of any other person on a train carrying passengers. Violators punished by a fine of not more than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment not exceeding six months, or both at discretion of the court.
1895 Fla. Laws 14
(1895)
No merchant, store-keeper or dealer shall keep for sale or sell pistols, Springfield rifles, repeating rifles, bowie knives or dirk knives, without first paying a license tax of ten dollars; Provided, Said pistols, Springfield rifles, repeating rifles, bowie knives or dirk knives, shall not be sold to minors.
1893 Fla. Laws 71
(1893)
Ch. 4147: Required a license to carry a Winchester or other repeating rifle. Licenses to cost a one hundred dollar bond. Violators shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars or sixty days in jail.
1897 Fla. Laws 59
(1897)
An Act to Punish the Improper Exhibition of Dangerous Weapons, chap. 4532, § 1: Prohibited brandishing any dirk, dirk-knife, sword, sword-cane, gun, pistol, or other deadly weapon in a rude, careless, angry, or threatening manner not in self defense. Violators shall be punished by imprisonment not exceeding three months, or by fine not exceeding one hundred dollar, or both.
Fla. Const. of 1885, art. I, § 20
(1885)
Declared the right of the people to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed, but the legislature shall have the right to regulate the manner in which arms are borne.
Fla. Act of Aug. 6, 1888, ch. 1637, subch. 7, § 10, as codified in Fla. Rev. Stat., tit. 2, pt. 5 (1892)
(1888)
Prohibited the concealed carrying of slungshot, metallic knuckles, billies, firearms, or other dangerous weapons if arrested for committing a criminal offense or disturbance of the peace. Punishable by imprisonment up to 1 year and a fine up to $50.
1893 Fla. Laws 13
(1893)
§ 14: Prohibited the keeping or selling of pistols, Springfield rifles, repeating rifles, Bowie-knives, or dirk knives by merchants, store-keepers, or dealers without paying a license tax of ten dollars. Violators punished by fined of fifty dollars, or by imprisonment in the county jail of not more than six months. Also prohibited the sale of these weapons to minors.
1 Digest of the Laws of the State of Florida, From the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-Two, to the Eleventh Day of March, One Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-One Inclusive 873 (James F. McClellan ed., 1881)
(1881)
Fla. ch. 174, § 24, item 14: Replaced the two hundred dollar annual tax for vendors and ten dollar tax for open carry with a fifty dollar occupational license for vendors of pistols, Bowie-knives, or dirk-knives.
1 Digest of the Laws of the State of Florida, From the Year One Thousand Eight Hundred and Twenty-Two, to the Eleventh Day of March, One Thousand Eight Hundred Eighty-One Inclusive 403 (James F. McClellan ed., 1881)
(1881)
Criminalized possessing dangerous weapons during arrests, manufacturing or selling slung shots/metallic knuckles, and secretly carrying weapons, punished by fines and/or jail time.
1881 Fla. Laws 87
(1881)
An Act to Prevent the Selling, Hiring, Bartering, Lending or Giving to Minors Under Sixteen Years of Age, or to any Person of Unsound Mind, Certain Fire-arms or other Dangerous Weapons, chap. 3285, § 1-2: Prohibited selling, hiring, bartering, lending, or giving any pistol, dirk, or other arm or weapon to any minor under sixteen years of age. Violators guilty of a misdemeanor, fined not less than twenty nor more than fifty dollars, or imprisoned in the county jail not more than three months.
1885 Fla. Laws 61-62
(1885)
Fla. Act of Feb. 12, ch. 3620: Prohibited the concealed carrying of any arms, dirk, pistol, or other arm or weapon is guilty of a misdemeanor. Fines not exceeding one hundred dollars or six months imprisonment.

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