Florida legal term
Destructive device in Florida Criminal Law
Current through 2026 Florida legislative session
In Florida criminal law, “Destructive device” is a term defined by statute rather than by its everyday meaning. Its statutory definition — quoted verbatim below — controls how the term is applied throughout the Florida criminal code.
What does “Destructive device” mean in Florida criminal law?
“Destructive device” means any bomb, grenade, mine, rocket, missile, pipebomb, or similar device containing an explosive, incendiary, or poison gas and includes any frangible container filled with an explosive, incendiary, explosive gas, or expanding gas, which is designed or so constructed as to explode by such filler and is capable of causing bodily harm or property damage; any combination of parts either designed or intended for use in converting any device into a destructive device and from which a destructive device may be readily assembled; any device declared a destructive device by the (Fla. Stat. § 790.001)
Statutes defining or using this term
Charges using this term
- Making, possessing, throwing, projecting, placing, or discharging any destructive device or attempt so to do, felony; penalties
- Paramilitary training; teaching or participation prohibited
- Planting of “hoax bomb” prohibited; penalties
- Possessing or discharging weapons or firearms at a school-sponsored event or on school property prohibited; penalties; exceptions
- Threat to throw, project, place, or discharge any destructive device, felony; penalty
- Unlawful throwing, projecting, placing, or discharging of destructive device or bomb that results in injury to another; penalty
- Murder
- Possession or use of weapon; aggravated battery; felony reclassification; minimum sentence
Related terms in the same statutes
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