When Can I Legally Shoot
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Your go to training class for "When Can I Legally Shoot"
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Learn the five check boxes for JUSTIFIABLE USE OF FORCE
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Defense of Others and it's legal boundaries
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Defense of Property and it's recent Florida legal twist
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Castle Doctrine and it's legal benefits
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Stand your Ground vs SOFT Stand your Ground
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Mobs, Riots, Arsons
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911 Encounter
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Q & A
2-hour class time
$35/person
Taught by a certified Law of Self-Defense Instructor
Certificate of Completion awarded
Currently scheduling private training classes (minimum of 10) in Escambia, Okaloosa, and Santa Rosa counties
Florida Self-Defense Laws
Regulates when you can legally use force, non-deadly or deadly, in defense of self, others, and property.
CHAPTER 776
JUSTIFIABLE USE OF FORCE
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776.012 Defense of Person
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776.013 Defense of Home
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776.031 Defense of Property
CS/HB 87 (2024): Taking of Bears
Effective July/1st/ 2024
Floridians can now stand their ground and kill threatening bears.
The Self Defense Act of 2024 allows for the taking of bears without any penalties under specific circumstances.
Declared State of Emergency, Mobs, Riots
HB 6025: Protects 2nd Amendment Rights during a State of Emergency
Effective May/28th/2025
HB 6025: Repeals FL Statue 870.044 Restrictions on Firearms and Ammunition During Emergencies
It is a crime in Florida s 316.2045 Obstruction of public streets, highways, and roads.—....
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Merriam-Webster, MOB, a large crowd of people, especially one that is disorderly and intent on causing trouble or violence:
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Defensive force must be proportional to the threatened force.
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A mob attack is a collective force capable of causing death or great bodily harm. Therefore, the use of defensive deadly force against a deadly force attack is justified.
776.013 Home protection; use or threatened use of deadly force; presumption of fear of death or great bodily harm (Paraphrased below)
(b) Deadly force if he or she reasonably believes that using or threatening to use such force is necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another or to prevent the imminent commission of a forcible felony
(2) A person is presumed to have held a reasonable fear of imminent peril of death or great bodily harm to himself or herself or another when using or threatening to use defensive force that is intended or likely to cause death or great bodily harm to another if:
(a) The person against whom the defensive force was used or threatened was in the process of unlawfully and forcefully entering, or had unlawfully and forcibly entered, a dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle, or if that person had removed or was attempting to remove another against that person's will from the dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle; and ...
(4) A person who unlawfully and by force enters or attempts to enter a person's dwelling, residence, or occupied vehicle is presumed to be doing so with the intent to commit an unlawful act involving force or violence.
(c) “Vehicle” means a conveyance of any kind, whether or not motorized, which is designed to transport people or property
Display of deadly force, is it legal?
Yes, if
F.S 776.012(2) A person is justified in using or threatening to use deadly force if he/she
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reasonably believes ... it was necessary to prevent imminent death or great bodily harm or to prevent an imminent forcible felony on self or another
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Does not have a duty to retreat
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Not engaged in criminal activity
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Is in a place where he/she has a right to
No, if
790.10 Improper exhibition of dangerous weapons or firearms.
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If in the presence of one or more
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Exhibit in a rude, carless, angry or threatening manner,
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not in necessary self-defense
Forcible Felony
776.08 Forcible felony.—“Forcible felony” means treason; murder; manslaughter; sexual battery; carjacking; home-invasion robbery; robbery; burglary; arson; kidnapping; aggravated assault; aggravated battery; aggravated stalking; aircraft piracy; unlawful throwing, placing, or discharging of a destructive device or bomb; and any other felony which involves the use or threat of physical force or violence against any individual.
Florida Gun Laws
Regulates who, where, and how a firearms are to be managed.
Firearms on School, College, University Property
SB 814 Weapons or Firearms at School-sponsored Events or on School Property
Effective July/1st/2025
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SB 814 amends s.790.115, prohibiting persons from "STORING" rather than "POSSESSING" firearms on school property...
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SB 814 "...a persons may carry (concealed) a firearm on the property of any college or university, including, but not limited to, any dormitory or residence hall owned or operated by a college or university, and in any other location he or she is legally authorized to do so"
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s790.06 (13) You may not carry on any college or university facility designated as a "sensitive location"
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s. 790.115(1) "This subsection does not apply to the exhibition of a firearm or weapon on private real property within 1,000 feet of a school by the owner of such property or by a person whose presence on such property has been authorized, licensed, or invited by the owner.
Firearms in Motor Vehicles
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790.251 "Protection of the right to keep and bear arms in motor vehicles for self-defense and other lawful purposes;" ...
Firearm must be lawfully possessed, in a locked private motor vehicle in a parking lot you are lawful to be there.
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EXCEPTIONS 790.251 (7)(a)-(g) (a)"Any school property as defined and regulated under s. 790.115", ...
Exception to the exception s. 790.115(3)..."school districts may adopt written and published policies that waive the exception ...for purposes of student and campus parking privileges."
790.013 Carrying of concealed weapons or concealed firearms without a license.—...
(1) Must carry valid identification at all times when he or she is in actual possession of a concealed weapon
or concealed firearm and must display such identification upon demand by a law enforcement officer.
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