Florida Law Protects Gun Owners...

 

Florida is a state that doesn't allow authorities (or anyone else) to keep a list of privately held firearms or their owners. Florida doesn't believe that such a list helps law enforcement.

Here is an excerpt from the state statute:

A list, record, or registry of legally owned firearms or law-abiding firearm owners is not a law enforcement tool and can become an instrument for profiling, harassing, or abusing law-abiding citizens based on their choice to own a firearm and exercise their Second Amendment right to keep and bear arms as guaranteed under the United States Constitution. Further, such a list, record, or registry has the potential to fall into the wrong hands and become a shopping list for thieves.

One need only look at the recent example of a newspaper publishing a list of all registered firearm owners in a section of the state of New York to get a sense of why Florida has such a law.