State Attorney Brian Kramer told police in six North Florida counties that Florida law doesn’t independently require NFA registration for suppressors and similar items. It covers only his circuit, not the whole state.
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A Florida prosecutor put out the first local guidance on the ATF change this week, and it’s good news, with an important limit you need to know about.
An 8th Judicial Circuit memo on unregistered NFA items, for six counties only
On October 11, State Attorney Brian Kramer told police in Alachua, Baker, Bradford, Gilchrist, Levy and Union counties that Florida’s law makes an exception for items “lawfully owned and possessed under provisions of federal law,” and that “Florida law does not independently require an ATF Form 1, Form 4, tax stamp, or registration.” On suppressors, he wrote that “the absence of an NFA tax stamp or registration does not make possession of a suppressor unlawful under Florida law.” That’s according to the memo as quoted in news reports.
This memo covers only his six counties. It’s one state attorney’s guidance to police in his circuit, not a statewide opinion and not a change in Florida law, and it doesn’t touch machine guns or destructive devices. If you live anywhere else in Florida, it doesn’t apply to you. Florida gun owners deserve that same clarity statewide.
More from the federal side
On Monday, DOJ answered the plaintiff states in the Texas NFA case. It told the court that ATF’s October 9 guidance already gives the states what they asked the judge to clarify, and that ATF “will no longer enforce the challenged NFA provisions against anyone.” But DOJ also argued that the court’s injunction itself protects only the parties, meaning the states and their agencies, members and customers, not every resident of the 15 plaintiff states. So the federal win rests on ATF’s enforcement policy, not a court order covering everyone, and a future administration could reverse it. That’s a win we have to defend.
On Tuesday the Supreme Court turned away more challenges to the federal felon-in-possession ban and took no new Second Amendment cases. Turning a case down doesn’t set precedent either way. And national concealed carry reciprocity, H.R. 38, has been sitting on the House calendar since October 3, 2025 without a floor vote.
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Florida Gun Owners will keep pushing for statewide clarity, and you’ll hear from us the moment anyone weighs in.
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Chris Dorr
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