2025 Florida Legislature

The proposals would repeal the state’s red flag law and prevent people under the age of 21 from buying a rifle.

Democratic Sen. Lori Berman hopes that will allow more young people with small children to run for public office

An open carry billed filed for consideration during the 2025 Legislative Session would allow Floridians to openly carry firearms, and it would repeal a “red-flag” law passed after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that allows authorities to take guns from people found to pose a “significant danger” to themselves or others.

After the backlash over the plan to bring golf courses and pickleball courts to state parks, a Stuart Republican filed a bill that would ban those changes.