Florida criminal code — chapter
Chapter 790: Weapons and Firearms
Chapter 790 of Title XLVI: Crimes, Florida Statutes. Statutory text on each section page is current through the legislative session it names.
Sections of Chapter 790
- Fla. Stat. § 790.001 — Definitions
- Fla. Stat. § 790.01 — Carrying of concealed weapons or concealed firearms
- Fla. Stat. § 790.013 — Carrying of concealed weapons or concealed firearms without a license
- Fla. Stat. § 790.015 — Nonresidents; reciprocity
- Fla. Stat. § 790.02 — Officer to arrest without warrant and upon probable cause
- Fla. Stat. § 790.051 — Exemption from licensing requirements; law enforcement officers
- Fla. Stat. § 790.052 — Carrying concealed firearms; off-duty law enforcement officers
- Fla. Stat. § 790.053 — Open carrying of weapons
- Fla. Stat. § 790.054 — Prohibited use of self-defense weapon or device against law enforcement officer; penalties
- Fla. Stat. § 790.06 — License to carry concealed weapon or concealed firearm
- Fla. Stat. § 790.0601 — Public records exemption for concealed weapons
- Fla. Stat. § 790.061 — Judges and justices; exceptions from licensure provisions
- Fla. Stat. § 790.062 — Members and veterans of United States Armed Forces; exceptions from licensure provisions
- Fla. Stat. § 790.0625 — Appointment of tax collectors to accept applications for a concealed weapon or firearm license; fees; penalties
- Fla. Stat. § 790.064 — Firearm possession and firearm ownership disability
- Fla. Stat. § 790.065 — Sale and delivery of firearms
- Fla. Stat. § 790.0655 — Purchase and delivery of firearms; mandatory waiting period; exceptions; penalties
- Fla. Stat. § 790.07 — Persons engaged in criminal offense, having weapons
- Fla. Stat. § 790.08 — Taking possession of weapons and arms; reports; disposition; custody
- Fla. Stat. § 790.09 — Manufacturing or selling metallic knuckles
- Fla. Stat. § 790.10 — Improper exhibition of dangerous weapons or firearms
- Fla. Stat. § 790.115 — Possessing or discharging weapons or firearms at a school-sponsored event or on school property prohibited; penalties; exceptions
- Fla. Stat. § 790.15 — Discharging firearm in public or on residential property
- Fla. Stat. § 790.151 — Using firearm while under the influence of alcoholic beverages, chemical substances, or controlled substances; penalties
- Fla. Stat. § 790.153 — Tests for impairment or intoxication; right to refuse
- Fla. Stat. § 790.155 — Blood test for impairment or intoxication in cases of death or serious bodily injury; right to use reasonable force
- Fla. Stat. § 790.157 — Presumption of impairment; testing methods
- Fla. Stat. § 790.16 — Discharging machine guns; penalty
- Fla. Stat. § 790.161 — Making, possessing, throwing, projecting, placing, or discharging any destructive device or attempt so to do, felony; penalties
- Fla. Stat. § 790.1612 — Authorization for governmental manufacture, possession, and use of destructive devices
- Fla. Stat. § 790.1615 — Unlawful throwing, projecting, placing, or discharging of destructive device or bomb that results in injury to another; penalty
- Fla. Stat. § 790.162 — Threat to throw, project, place, or discharge any destructive device, felony; penalty
- Fla. Stat. § 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
- Fla. Stat. § 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
- Fla. Stat. § 790.165 — Planting of “hoax bomb” prohibited; penalties
- Fla. Stat. § 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
- Fla. Stat. § 790.169 — Juvenile offenders; release of names and addresses
- Fla. Stat. § 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
- Fla. Stat. § 790.173 — Legislative findings and intent
- Fla. Stat. § 790.174 — Safe storage of firearms required
- Fla. Stat. § 790.175 — Transfer or sale of firearms; required warnings; penalties
- Fla. Stat. § 790.18 — Sale or transfer of arms to minors by dealers
- Fla. Stat. § 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
- Fla. Stat. § 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
- Fla. Stat. § 790.221 — Possession of short-barreled rifle, short-barreled shotgun, or machine gun; penalty
- Fla. Stat. § 790.222 — Bump-fire stocks prohibited
- Fla. Stat. § 790.225 — Ballistic self-propelled knives; unlawful to manufacture, sell, or possess; forfeiture; penalty
- Fla. Stat. § 790.23 — Felons and delinquents; possession of firearms, ammunition, or electric weapons or devices unlawful
- Fla. Stat. § 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
- Fla. Stat. § 790.235 — Possession of firearm or ammunition by violent career criminal unlawful; penalty
- Fla. Stat. § 790.24 — Report of medical treatment of certain wounds; penalty for failure to report
- Fla. Stat. § 790.25 — Lawful ownership, possession, and use of firearms and other weapons
- Fla. Stat. § 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
- Fla. Stat. § 790.256 — Public service announcements
- Fla. Stat. § 790.27 — Alteration or removal of firearm serial number or possession, sale, or delivery of firearm with serial number altered or removed prohibited; penalties
- Fla. Stat. § 790.29 — Paramilitary training; teaching or participation prohibited
- Fla. Stat. § 790.31 — Armor-piercing or exploding ammunition or dragon’s breath shotgun shells, bolo shells, or flechette shells prohibited
- Fla. Stat. § 790.33 — Field of regulation of firearms and ammunition preempted
- Fla. Stat. § 790.331 — Prohibition of civil actions against firearms or ammunition manufacturers, firearms trade associations, firearms or ammunition distributors, or firearms or ammunition dealers
- Fla. Stat. § 790.333 — Sport shooting and training range protection; liability; claims, expenses, and fees; penalties; preemption; construction
- Fla. Stat. § 790.335 — Prohibition of registration of firearms; electronic records
- Fla. Stat. § 790.336 — Lists, records, or registries to be destroyed
- Fla. Stat. § 790.338 — Medical privacy concerning firearms; prohibitions; penalties; exceptions
- Fla. Stat. § 790.401 — Risk protection orders
This reference is informational and is not legal advice.