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"The firearm that was on the bed and ultimately used by Sabrina was registered to Mark."
-- Andrew H Warren's Office of the State Attorney 13th Judical Circuit of Florida.
This is from this article at Bearing Arms about the charges against Sabrina Hendley being dropped.
It was my understanding that Florida doesn't have such registration and keeping such records was a violation of state law.
Yet I keep seeing the police, county and state officials saying a particular weapon was or was not registered to an individual.
It's starting to piss me off.
If they mean they traced the gun and he was the last purchaser in the chain via his 4473, then I think we need to start screaming louder about that 4473 being a de facto registration scheme.
According to Fla. Stat. § 790.335(2), "PROHIBITIONS.—No state governmental agency or local government, special district, or other political subdivision or official, agent, or employee of such state or other governmental entity or any other person, public or private, shall knowingly and willfully keep or cause to be kept any list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or any list, record, or registry of the owners of those firearms."
You see the same thing with crime shows that have episodes in Florida. "It's an unregistered firearm." "Of course, you dumb-arse, it's Florida, there's no registration, stupid yankee jerk!"
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