{"id":96521,"date":"2023-10-05T15:47:58","date_gmt":"2023-10-05T20:47:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96521"},"modified":"2023-10-05T15:47:58","modified_gmt":"2023-10-05T20:47:58","slug":"96521","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96521","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridadaily.com\/ashley-moody-releases-legal-opinion-insists-atf-infringed-on-gun-rights\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">[Florida AG] Ashley Moody Releases Legal Opinion, Insists ATF Infringed on Gun Rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p>This week,<strong>\u00a0Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody<\/strong>\u00a0released a legal opinion regarding the use of stabilizing braces for handguns in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Moody issued the opinion in response to a request from state\u00a0<strong>Rep. Shane Abbott<\/strong>, R-<strong>DeFuniak Springs<\/strong>, to provide clarity on Florida law following a recently released B<strong>ureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives<\/strong>\u00a0(ATF) interpretation of a federal law. The ATF interpretation subjects handguns with stabilizing braces to National Firearms Act controls. Moody issued an opinion on a similarly worded provision of Florida law concluding that stabilizing braces are not short-barreled rifles.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe\u00a0<strong>Second Amendment<\/strong>\u00a0is alive and well in Florida and our state laws protect the gun rights of law-abiding citizens. We issued this important legal opinion to provide clarity about our state law as the federal government continues to overreach in an effort to over-regulate certain firearm accessories,\u201d said Moody.<\/p>\n<p>The opinion deals solely with Florida state law and has no bearing on the ATF\u2019s action. The opinion states: \u201cUnless and until judicially or legislatively clarified, I conclude that the definition of \u2018short-barreled rifle,\u2019 which the Legislature enacted in 1969, does not include a handgun, such as a pistol, to which a person attaches a stabilizing brace, because the use of such an optional accessory does not change the fundamental characteristics of the handgun.\u201d Separately, the state of Florida is challenging the ATF interpretation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[Florida AG] Ashley Moody Releases Legal Opinion, Insists ATF Infringed on Gun Rights This week,\u00a0Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody\u00a0released a legal opinion regarding the use of stabilizing braces for handguns in Florida. Moody issued the opinion in response to a request from state\u00a0Rep. Shane Abbott, R-DeFuniak Springs, to provide clarity on Florida law following a &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=96521\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,24,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-96521","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-rights","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96521","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=96521"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96521\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":96522,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96521\/revisions\/96522"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=96521"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=96521"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=96521"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}