CRC - 2017 COMMISSIONER AMENDMENT
Proposal No. CS for P 3
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LEGISLATIVE ACTION
Senate . House
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Floor: 3/OO .
03/21/2018 02:55 PM .
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Commissioners Coxe, Plymale, Joyner, and Kruppenbacher moved the
following:
1 CRC Amendment (with title amendment)
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3 Delete everything after the proposal clause
4 and insert:
5 Section 8 of Article I of the State Constitution is amended
6 to read:
7 ARTICLE I
8 DECLARATION OF RIGHTS
9 SECTION 8. Right to bear arms.—
10 (a) Balancing a respect for, and under no circumstances
11 violating, the Second Amendment to the United States
12 Constitution and as interpreted by the United States Supreme
13 Court, with an equal respect for the lives of all citizens of
14 Florida, it is the policy of the State of Florida that the right
15 of the people to keep and bear arms in defense of themselves and
16 of the lawful authority of the state shall not be infringed,
17 except that the manner of bearing arms may be regulated by law.
18 (b) A purchaser of a firearm must be at least twenty-one
19 years of age. The prohibitions of this subsection do not apply
20 to the purchase of a rifle or shotgun by a law enforcement
21 officer, a correctional officer, or a servicemember.
22 (c) There shall be a mandatory waiting period of three
23 days, excluding weekends and legal holidays, between the
24 purchase and delivery at retail of any firearm handgun. A
25 comprehensive background check as prescribed by Florida law
26 shall occur during this period. The mandatory waiting period
27 shall be ten days, excluding weekends and legal holidays, which
28 expires upon the completion of the comprehensive background
29 check, whichever occurs later.
30 (d) No person shall import into this state or transfer,
31 distribute, sell, keep for sale, offer for sale, possess, or
32 give to another person a bump-fire stock.
33 (e) No person, except for military or law enforcement use,
34 shall import into this state or transfer, distribute, sell,
35 keep, possess, or give to another person an assault weapon, as
36 defined by Florida law.
37 (f) No person, except for military or law enforcement use,
38 shall manufacture, sell, offer for sale, purchase, receive, or
39 transfer a detachable magazine that has a capacity of more than
40 nine rounds of ammunition for a firearm.
41 (g) For the purposes of this section, the term “purchase”
42 means the transfer of money or other valuable consideration to
43 the seller retailer, the term "bump-fire stock" means a
44 conversion kit, a tool, an accessory, or a device used to alter
45 the rate of a firearm to mimic automatic weapon fire or which is
46 used to increase the rate of fire to a faster rate than is
47 possible for a person to fire a semiautomatic firearm unassisted
48 by a kit, a tool, an accessory, or a device, and the term
49 "detachable magazine" means an ammunition-feeding device that
50 can be removed readily from a firearm without requiring
51 disassembly of the firearm action or without the use of a tool,
52 including a bullet or cartridge. “handgun” means a firearm
53 capable of being carried and used by one hand, such as a pistol
54 or revolver. Holders of a concealed weapon permit as prescribed
55 in Florida law shall not be subject to the provisions of this
56 paragraph.
57 (h) (c) The legislature shall enact legislation
58 implementing subsections subsection (b), (c), (d), (e) and (f)
59 of this section, effective no later than December 31, 2019 1991,
60 which shall provide that anyone violating the provisions of
61 subsections subsection (b), (c), (d), (e) or (f) shall be guilty
62 of a felony.
63 (d) This restriction shall not apply to a trade in of
64 another handgun.
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66 ================= T I T L E A M E N D M E N T ================
67 And the title is amended as follows:
68 Delete everything before the proposal clause
69 and insert:
70 A proposal to amend
71 Section 8 of Article I of the State Constitution to limit
72 the age to purchase a firearm to at least twenty-one years of
73 age, to require ten days between the purchase and delivery of a
74 firearm, to require a comprehensive background check during the
75 period between the purchase and delivery of a firearm as
76 prescribed by law, to prohibit specified acts relating to the
77 sale and possession of a bump-fire stock, to prohibit the sale
78 and possession of assault weapons, and to prohibit the sale and
79 possession of large capacity magazines.