If you look at the language of the law that creates permitless carry in Florida, it’s complicated. So News4JAX took your questions to a police supervisor at the Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office.
Until now, gun owners would apply for a license, take a class and get a background check to be able to carry a concealed firearm in the state.Until now, gun owners would apply for a license, take a class and get a background check to be able to carry a concealed firearm in the state.
The change is part of a larger bill championed by Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican-controlled state Legislature. “They no longer have to apply for that,” JSO Chief of Patrol Jaime Eason said. “However, they still have to follow the requirements if you work to get that concealed weapons license.”
“People that were not law-abiding citizens never got a concealed weapons license to begin with,” Eason said. “So they already had a gun. That hasn’t changed, but law-abiding citizens, they just now can exercise their Second Amendment right, and they don’t have to get a license and law-abiding citizens tend not to do things like that.”
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