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Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday morning announced he plans to pursue civil enforcement against the City of Jacksonville.<\/p>\n
This is related to the list of gun owners who entered city buildings while armed over a two-year period.<\/p>\n
>>> STREAM ACTION NEWS JAX LIVE <<<<\/a><\/p>\n Uthmeier said on X, \u201cJacksonville\u2019s firearm registry exposed law-abiding firearm owners to the very dangers that the prohibition was meant to prevent. My office is correcting @SAO4Florida\u2018s misinterpretation of the law and moving forward with civil enforcement against the City of Jacksonville.\u201d<\/p>\n [DOWNLOAD: Free Action News Jax app for alerts as news breaks<\/a>]<\/p>\n Uthmeier also shared a copy of the letter he wrote to State Attorney Melissa Nelson, which states in part, \u201cThe fact remains that the city maintained a firearm registry of privately owned firearms for two years and your office\u2019s analysis of the relevant statute does not withstand scrutiny.\u201d<\/p>\n Action News Jax was first to discover in May<\/a> that the city had been keeping names and other personal information of people who entered city buildings while armed.<\/p>\n Since July 1st, 2023, state law has prevented local governments<\/a> from prohibiting legal gun owners from carrying concealed in government buildings.<\/p>\n [SIGN UP: Action News Jax Daily Headlines Newsletter<\/a>] <\/p>\n Action News Jax State and Local Government reporter Jake Stofan told you in January<\/a> that Uthmeier was investigating the matter.<\/p>\n This came after Nelson announced in December that no charges would be filed<\/a>.<\/p>\n Nelson\u2019s office concluded that poor communication and a directive from a mid-level city employee were to blame for the creation of a policy that documented the names and personal information of more than 100 gun owners who entered city buildings while carrying concealed over a two-year period.<\/p>\n Click here<\/a> to download the free Action News Jax news and weather apps, click here<\/a> to download the Action News Jax Now app for your smart TV and click here<\/a> to stream Action News Jax live.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Monday morning announced he plans to pursue civil enforcement against the City…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":175277,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[344,82957,9024,82958,82959,7912,116,118,117,4260,7345],"class_list":["post-175276","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-jacksonville","tag-action-news-jax","tag-city-buildings","tag-city-of-jacksonville","tag-firearm-owners","tag-firearm-registry","tag-florida-attorney-general","tag-jacksonville","tag-jacksonville-headlines","tag-jacksonville-news","tag-james-uthmeier","tag-melissa-nelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175276","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=175276"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/175276\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/175277"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=175276"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=175276"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=175276"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}