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St. Petersburg police crack down on teens using gel pellet guns

Listen: More than 200 teens gathered in  downtown St. Petersburg Saturday night, and several of them were firing gel pellet guns at the crowd. The Police Department is cracking down on similar behaviors. Later that...

Free gun locks available for pickup at Tampa Police offices or libraries

The Tampa Police Department is doing an expansion of its project called the "Locked and Unloaded Program."

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Democratic elected officials sound alarm on Florida’s ‘weak’ gun laws

Listen: This week is National Gun Violence Survivors Week. Elected officials met with loved ones of victims of gun violence to discuss Florida’s increasingly weak gun laws. Jonny Johnson started the non-profit Rise Up for...

Florida to become permitless carry state on July 1

Florida’s new permitless carry law will go into effect this Saturday, and some Floridians are concerned about gun violence.
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A lockdown at Tampa’s Shaw Elementary School Friday was lifted

Shaw Elementary School went into lockdown for 30 minutes. After a false alarm there was no weapon found on campus.

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