FL H1019

All private firearm sales and transfers must be conducted through a federally licensed dealer who performs a background check on the purchaser, with exceptions for transfers between family members, law enforcement, temporary loans at shooting ranges, and inheritance; violations are a third-degree felony

Firearm safe storage requirements are expanded to cover all firearms (not just loaded ones) and to protect both minors (redefined as under 18, up from 16) and "prohibited users" barred by law from possessing firearms; penalties are increased to a first-degree misdemeanor when a minor or prohibited user gains access and exhibits the firearm publicly or threateningly

Licensed dealers must include a trigger lock, cable lock, or secure gun case with every firearm sale, and must provide purchasers with written warnings about storage laws, safe storage brochures, and penalty information; dealers must retain signed compliance statements for at least 6 years

Manufacturing, assembling, selling, possessing (after January 1, 2026), or transferring firearms or unfinished frames/receivers without valid serial numbers is prohibited; use of 3D printers or CNC milling machines to manufacture firearms without a federal manufacturing license is also banned, as is the manufacture or possession of undetectable firearms

A 10-member Veteran's Firearm Suicide Reduction Task Force is created within the Department of Veterans' Affairs, with appointments by the Governor and legislative leaders by August 1, 2025, required to submit findings and recommendations on reducing veteran firearm suicides by January 1, 2026; the act takes effect October 1, 2025