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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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    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.
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    1901 Fla. Laws 57
    (1901)
    Ch. 4928: Amended 1893 Fla. Laws 71, ch. 4147 to include licensing for carrying concealed handguns. Violators fined one hundred dollars or jailed for thirty days.
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    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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    The Revised Statutes of the State of Florida 782-83 (W.A. Blount et al. eds., 1892)
    (1868)
    1868 Fla. Rev. Stat., tit. 2, art. 5, §§ 2421-2425: Prohibited carrying concealed weapons, except common pocket knives, punishable by up to six months’ imprisonment or a $100 fine. Those arrested while committing an offense or disturbing the peace who possess firearms or other dangerous weapons face up to one year’s imprisonment and a $50 fine. Officers were required to seize such weapons, which are forfeited upon conviction and returned upon acquittal. Moreover, manufacturing or selling slung-shots or metallic knuckles was punishable by up to six months’ imprisonment or a $100 fine.