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When Florida lawmakers went home after ending the 2024 legislative session Friday, they left behind hundreds of bills that did not pass.

The Florida House on Friday passed a controversial bill that would lower the minimum age from 21 to 18 to buy rifles and shotguns.

Two controversial gun-related bills are positioned to go to the full Florida House, though the Senate has not considered them.

The incident was triggered not by an actual threat, but rather by the sound of an acorn hitting an Okaloosa County Sheriff’s patrol car.

HB 1619, filed by Rep. Mike Beltran, R-Riverview, would allow people to openly carry firearms in Florida.

The Florida House passed a virtually identical bill during the 2023 session, but the Senate did not take up the issue.

State and federal courts in 2024 are expected to buzz with major Florida cases including these ten.

The Florida Supreme Court has declined to take up a challenge to the constitutionality of a state law that bars the possession of guns by convicted felons.

Florida Democrats filed bills that seek to expand rules regarding the storage of firearms and discharging guns in residential areas.

Florida Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson wants to change a law to let repossession agents carry concealed guns.

A U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled that the Second Amendment was violated when a medical cannabis patient was barred from having guns.

A seven-year-old was killed by gunfire at Ben T. Davis Beach along the Courtney Campbell Causeway on the Fourth of July.