What's up? J from trick train academy firearms instructor. I teach conceal weapons class inside of Florida. We are going to go through the concealed carry laws and put this on YouTube so all of you guys can have it. Um I'm going to try to add as many illustrations and other videos into it to just make this video less of me talking and more of you seeing contrast in terms of what you actually can do, what you can't do, and how people have suffered and repercussions of it. First thing to start with is Florida's permanence carry. Like we've been permanent carry for about two years now. At least it'll be two years and like two months. July 1st, 2023, we went permless carry. We didn't go to hell. 28 other states have gone perless carry. All it really means is that you just don't need the piece of plastic anymore in order to conceal carry. Um people think that because we went permanent carry that we just became open carry and got rid of all the laws. Like no, constitutional carry and permanent carry are two separate things. People try to really misconrue them. Some people will say that Florida is constitutional carry. it. Not quite because what I consider constitutional carry is I do I compare it to Texas. In Texas, you can open carry or concealed carry without a permit. Doesn't matter which one you choose. In Florida, you cannot open carry at all. Doesn't matter if you have a permit, doesn't matter if you're not, unless you're a G license officer. That's armed security. That's a whole different topic. But for civilians that are not in official capacity or working, you can't open carry. So, in my opinion, that makes us not constitutional carry because we prohibit that one thing unless it's in a specific instance. So, we're not constitutional carry. Um, you must be 21 years or older to even conceal carry. At 18, you can be in legal possession of a firearm. We'll get more into the nitty-gritty of it, especially if it's private property. At 18, you could be in legal possession of a firearm, but you cannot conceal carry in the public. Let's say you're walking around the mall. You can't do that until you're 21 plus. You can't buy a firearm until you're 21 plus. Although I did just read a headline that said that the NRA is um petitioning petitioning the Supreme Court to remake us 18 years old to buy. So we used to be at 18, you used to be able to buy inside of Florida, but the Stoman Douglas shooting happened and I believe it Governor Rick Scott at the time raised the standard to be um 21 plus in order to buy. So we changed it from 18 to 21 after the Stoman Douglas shooting. I knew people that died or at least I won't say I knew them. I was around people and we were in the same community um which was a performing arts community. We were in the same community and some of those performers did not come back the next year to um a state finals that we have because they have lost their lives in that in that tragedy. So I really personally I don't think at 18 you should be allowed to purchase a firearm. You're still in school. Yes. You know other states do it. Other states don't have the same issues. I feel the same way about those states like wait till you're 21. If you aren't even capable of buying a drink, which could also be argued, I don't think you should have a gun just yet. Like, you know, that applies for multiple scenarios across the board for me. So, permanent carry 21 plus um and you were good to go. 18 you can be in legal possession, but you cannot buy as of yet. In Florida, type of weapons that you can carry with or without a concealed permit because again, we we went perless carry so you don't need it. knives. If the blade is only three inches, yeah, you can go ahead and carry that electronic weapon, meaning it tasers, yeah, you can carry tasers. I'm not a fan of tasers at all because the dart tasers, like we see body cam videos all the time, cops using tasers and it just doesn't affect the person at all. Or if you go to the gun show like just past this weekend and you try to get one of those stun tasers, if you got to reach out and touch me and I grab a hold of your arm, it's a bad day for you and now you got to really fight through it. So, like I don't like anything, especially if we're talking like if we've gotten into a hands-on situation, I'm usually not pulling my gun out anyway because in that close distance, if you get a hold of my gun, again, the worst day of my life just 10xed in that moment. So, I'm not a fan of tasers because they just don't do the job like I need and there's too many variables inside of using a taser. Impact weapon, billy clubs, kubatons, slapsticks, uh things of that nature. Yeah, fun fact, Florida, you cannot use nunchucks inside of Florida. It is illegal to use nunchucks, which is a very random fun fact. So, Jackie Chan skills not allowed to do so. Chemical agents less than 2 ounces. Yeah, you don't need a permit to carry, you know, pepper spray that's less than 2 ounces. If you're going to carry a big canister of pepper spray that's big, like larger than 2 ounces, yeah, you'll you'll need that cuz they'll carry permit or they can start trying to bring charges against you if you improperly used it. Tear gas, same thing applies. Um, we got those little guns that shoot like the pepper gel balls. Those are also allowed to be carried with um without a permit. N or not nunchucks, uh brass knuckles. I we just took brass knuckles from somebody the other day. So brass knuckles aren't illegal, but you do need a permit in order to carry brass knuckles. If you don't have a concealed weapons permit and you're carrying brass knuckles, um you again, you can be prosecuted for any actions or and any negligence or harm that you commit with those brass knuckles, you can be found liable for it, especially if you don't have the concealed weapon license in that moment. If you do, then you'll usually be good and fine from that point forward. Know your personnel. Um, so a lot of times we see a lot of cases where kids get a hold of firearms and they have accidents with them. And grab this. This is a Voltek safe. Um, this is a great safe to get and put your firearm into it. Volt, I really wish you would sponsor me like you did calling Neore, but we will talk about that later. But again, Voltafes, like this is mine. I don't have my gun in here now. I keep other items in this safe. But again, you got two clamps right here, both sides, and then you got a 8digit number code on the front of it that you got to use in order to get inside. I had a Sig 365 XL inside of here. And I had a little cousin at the time. He got these clamps open, you know, cuz they just they just pop open like that. So, these clamps really are just there to give it like that airtight seal, make sure nothing can really get in there. But, he could not guess an eight-digit number code. So, he still could not get that firearm from inside of there. And again, like if you're going to have a party, if you're going to have people over or whatever for the time being, like, yeah, it's probably smart to go ahead and store the firearm in there, make sure no one can get access to it. The other cool thing about this safe is it's TSA approved. So, you know, TSA one, the clerks that you will meet at the check-in, when you're going to check in your bag, and again, that's how you have to carry the fire. If you're going to bring it to the airport, you must check it in. So, put it in a safe like this. It needs two locking mechanisms. There was the first locks. Boom. Those are the second locks. So, each clamp does not count as its own individual lock. These clamps count as one lock. And then the fact that there's a pad lock counts as the second one. Um, if you go to to the spear clerk, like they're they're they never really know the rules. Um, and I think Pew Culture on Instagram, he does a good job about really making content about this, but they never know the rules. Typically, empty mag can be in the firearm. No ammo can be inside. So, what I do is I take my loaded mag out, put it to the side, take my chamber round out, put that to the side. Um, leave the firearm empty of all ammo. Tell the clerk, "Hey, I'm declaring a firearm." They usually bring up this little orange card, orange reddish card that I sign. The little tassel that goes around the handle on your carry-on bag. They put a sticker on that to let you know to let the people handling the suitcases know that there is a firearm inside. Don't just sling that thing around. Even though it is, you know, within regulations, you still don't want to be slinging a firearm around inside of a bag. just not a smart idea. Um, so you do all that and then yeah, you're good to go. You don't have to pay an extra fee. Like you checking in the firearm or checking your check bag that goes under the plane. That's all you really got to pay for. So whatever that charge is, it's the only charge that you actually need or that you will be charged when it comes to actually um putting that firearm on on the plane. I tell people if you have brass like I just had this bag right here. I just reached in there the other day and there were two brass shells just in the pocket. If you have brass shells or any type of ammo in your bag when you see metal detectors and dogs, it's going to be a very bad day for you. Like those dogs are really not sniffing for drugs. Like people bring edibles, weed, flour onto the planes all the time. Those dogs don't flag that. They flag explosive ammunitions. So anything that has explosive, explosive powder, explosive materials, that is what those dogs are sniffing for. So, even if you go to the gun range, let's say you go to the gun range right before you decide to get on the plane, when you're stepping around on the floor, you're going to have gunpowder on your shoes. There's a great chance that that dog is going to flag you and that they're going to stop you because you have gunpowder on your shoes. So, in that instance, it's best to keep the receipt from the gun range so you can just show like, hey, I was there and I was not at home making bombs and that's why I have gunpowder on my shoe. Um, let's see. Another topic, this is really a top five thing that you need to know when it comes to carrying a firearm in the state of Florida. How to have a firearm inside of a car. So, a firearm inside of the car is really It used to be one of the sketchier situations inside of Florida. Like, we've seen it. I I got great video footage of cops just doing doing it wrong and then doing it right. Like, I I was pulled over like five times last year and none of the cops asked me about a firearm. They did not care. It was all about whatever the traffic stop I was doing. Usually it was speeding and that's what the traffic stop always stayed about. I'd usually ask the cop why they didn't ask me in the end. But they all said like, "Hey, you didn't do anything that made me nervous. Like there's no need to ask like we're perless carry now." We assume that everybody has a gun inside of their car. Anytime like in this video that I'm going to show you here, what are you adding? Are there any firearms, illegal contraband, drugs in this vehicle I needed to be made aware of? Anytime that I've seen cops start to question people about guns, they're always building a profile on that person. They're always profiling that person and they're trying to bring charges against that person before it's even necessary to bring charges. Um because you're allowed to have a firearm inside of the car and you're allowed to have a firearm on on your person. If you don't look like you're like younger than 21, then there's really no need to ask about a firearm unless you have a preconceived notion or you have information beforehand that let you know that that person is a felon. When it comes to have a firearm inside of the car, the the two things you really need to be mindful of are securely in case and not readily accessible. So, this is really the top criteria you need to think about when it comes to having a firearm inside of the car in the state of Florida. Securely in case or not readily accessible. People love to try to argue me on the two-step myth. Oh, it must be two three steps away. Like my TikTok comment section is full of different types of people that just think they know it. And it's like, no, you have to read it. like go read the statute on the page. And once you read it, like I'll put it right here. It says securing case or not readily accessible. Let's say we took that ore out and we put and up there. If we put and right there, sure. Now it becomes a two-step, three-step type of situation where it says, "Okay, I must put it inside of a holster and take the ammunition outside of it and make it separate." It doesn't say that. It says or. So, securely case means snapped inside of a holster, center console, glove compartment, book bag, inside of a gun safe, like I've had this whole time. Um, any place like that is securely a case. And the way that kind of works naturally is there's a one-step process before you can get to it. If it's in a holster, I have to take it out of the holster before I can use it. If it's in the bag, I have to unzip the bag, reach inside of the bag in order to get it. If it's in the bag, it doesn't need to be in the holster. If it's in a safe, it doesn't need to be in the holster. Center console glove compartment. Again, it doesn't need to be in the holster, but the holster is the safest means. If you have pencils, pencils are in here. All types of loose objects are in here. If you just have a gun that's out and it's loaded, cuz I always carry one in the chamber. If you've never been in a gunfight, which most people just have not, you do not have enough time to try to grab that gun, rack it, and get shots on target. You need to minimize one of those steps. And the easiest step to minimize is keeping one in the chamber and putting it inside of a holster is the next step that you just got to get through. I'd rather get through the holster and then immediately be able to shoot than try to get through the holster and wreck around and then shoot. That one extra step can cost you your life. Bullets fly in hundreds of a second, not tenths of a second. So, understand that big difference right there. Anyways, securing case is the golden definition. Like, if you just securely case your firearm inside of the holster, you usually have nothing to worry about. Even if the cop does try to bring up charges against you, it's going to get tossed out in court because you followed the statute. According to Florida sheriff's and according to every judge that I've ever had with somebody who sent me who got sent to the divergent program, they usually always got sent to the divergent program because the gun wasn't inside of a holster. And the judge never saw it reasonable to really give them a felony for them just not knowing the difference of this sentence. Not readily accessible is the other side of it where this is usually where cops will try to get people. Like I've had a friend that's beat this not readily accessible charge um or he's beat a readily accessible charge. Um but again the judge sent him through a divergent program and it's not on his record anymore. Granted he did have to pay a lot of money to a lawyer to go through this process. But what not readily accessible means firearm that has no ammunition inside of it. The ammunition and the mag the ammunition and the firearm are kept separately. I do arm security as most of you probably know if you've been watching my shorts. My AR is always not readily accessible. Like when my air is always on duty. I'm licensed to carry it on duty. When I'm driving around, I don't have a I don't have one in the chamber and a fully loaded magn. I always keep them separate. Once I'm on my property that I got to protect in that moment. Yeah. Then I'm going to make them ready. You know, get it um well, I think we call it condition two maybe or cruiser ready. I forget. You know, the conditions is kind of a military thing. I don't know all four conditions that well. Cruiser ready. Magazine in, bolt carrier down. If you need to get it, you just rack the bolt back and then boom, you're ready to go. Um, that's always that's always how I keep mine when it comes to being on a property somewhere. That's readily accessible. So once that once that magazine is in, the firearm is readily accessible. It doesn't matter if there's one in the chamber or not. Once the mag is in, the firearm is readily accessible. And if you want to carry that way, you need to put it in a holster. To fit the criteria of not readily accessible, you need to make them separate. So put the magazine in a bag, put the AR in the back seat. Boom, you're good to go. Put the mag in safe center console glove compartment. Boom. you're good to go. People ask me, "Oh, can I carry like an AR pistol inside of the car?" Yes, you can carry any kind of firearm inside of the car. It just needs to either be securely in case or not readily accessible. One or the other, not both. You never have to do both of them. The thing I almost forgot to add in, Florida's not a duty to notify state. So, when you get pulled over, you're also not legally obligated to tell that officer that you have a firearm inside of that car at all. You don't need to bring it up. I have not brought it up in all of these videos that I will put. How are you, sir? I'm doing well. How about yourself? Spark Winter Garden Police. I got you at 44 coming down the hill. Speed limits 30 right here. Sorry. Then it changes to uh 25. Yeah, I should have hit that brake a little sooner. What's going on with your tag? Your tag is likely hanging on. I got duct tape on there and then like this get hit or something back there and then one of the screws like it just doesn't hold anymore. Let me go check. License is good. No suspensions or anything? Negative. Proof insurance. It's on the thing. I don't know how to pull it on my phone. What do you mean it's on the thing? Like when you run it, you can see it, but like I don't have it you can see it cuz other officers has pulled it up and they've seen it. Yeah, but the law says you got to have the thing with it. I don't know how to get it like on the thing on my phone at least. All right. Just give me a second. I'll be right with you. Okay. Yes, sir. And I will link so you guys can go and watch them on my social media cuz I pretty much film every interaction I have with the cop. I don't tell them. At the end of the stop, once they've either written me the ticket or given me the warning, I ask them, "Hey, why didn't you ask me about a firearm?" and this has been all their explanation. There's no need for me to ask like you didn't make me nervous. When they do ask, again, they're usually doing an investigation or trying to start something further than what they initially stopped you for. So, you should treat it treat it as business. Either say you don't answer questions or answer them honestly like I do. Yeah, I'm a skilled weapons holder. Again, if you pull me over for speeding, that's what this traffic stop's about. you have no reason to run my gun or do anything else because if you haven't if you've already run my license and you haven't gotten back that I'm a felon, that means I'm allowed to be in the firearm and I'm innocent until proven guilty. So, until you can prove that I'm not allowed to be in possession of this firearm, I am allowed to be in possession of the firearm. So, those are the most important facts when it comes to having a firearm inside of the car. So, places that you can and cannot carry a firearm in the state of Florida. Um, school is federal property. Let's start with that cuz that's the that's the biggest one. Whether it is CF Arena because graduations are happening all month, um the post office or any type of government property, you're technically not allowed to have firearms inside of government property. So the post office is a good example. Technically not even allowed to have firearms inside of the parking lot. With that being said, no one's going to check. Like if you have to pick up your kids from school, you should not leave the firearm at home because that's a 10-minute interaction and let's say you're going other places. The school cannot prohibit you from carrying that firearm just because you're picking up your kid. And again, the state has preeemption. So if the school did try to really restrict you, they're going to end up facing a fine. And if they're a government, if since they are in a government position, the governor does have the right to take them out of that position if they try to enforce this. And this goes for pretty much all government entities, like unless you're a government employee. Um once you're a government employee, you sign a contract so that you then are contractually adhering to the rules. But if you're a private citizen visiting government property, you didn't sign a contract. They cannot prohibit you. Um granted, I say do not have any kind of any kind of altercations there. Like if it's the post office, don't don't go throwing a fit that they lost your package. Like wait till you're off property, call them um and then cuss them out, but don't try to cuss them out in the building where there's a gun in your car. Hospitals that don't provide a mental health service, we are a red flag state. You can be bakered or marshall activated at every single hospital in the state of Florida. Both of those are mental health services. Therefore, you were not allowed to bring a firearm. I just did a I just facilitated a mass firing at a medical facility that I realized was a hospital after I had already been in there for two hours. And this is my issue is really it's the floor that the mental health service is on, but I don't know what floor that is. Like when I was working in this hospital, one, I was unarmed because it's a hospital. Two, I was on the first floor and that was like a clinical floor where they just had, you know, they were doing lab studies and things like that. And then we eventually went to the third floor. I realized they had an inpatient area. Like they had beds, they had all types of thing. And I was like, "Oh, this this is a hospital." Or at least this used to be a hospital at some point in time. You could you could stay here. This is a hospital. Like they still granted they were literally firing everybody. So like when I'm looking around, they have areas where they still have like blood samples that were taken and things like that. And I'm like, "Oh, this is very like I would not have guessed being on the first floor for the first hour and a half." last hour and a half being on the third floor. I would have had no idea. So, the floor that the mental health service is on, long story short, you don't know that walking into the hospital. So, don't bring your firearm inside of the hospital. Um, any police, sheriff, highway patrol, any police, sheriff, highway patrol station, detention facility, jail or prison. If you walk into jail or prison with a firearm, I make this joke every time. You're going to save the night. Don't don't call me. You asked for this. You're going to get three hots in a c courtroom without a judge's permission. There's not a judge in America that's going to let you in with a firearm. plain and simple, any place of polling. It is a thirdderee felony for voter intimidation to walk to a place of polling with a weapon on you. Private property. So, it's really it's private property upon receiving um actual post-it notice that entrance is not allowed with a firearm. If you go to Crunch Fitness, which I've made this video before, too. Crunch Fitness has a picture of a gun with on picture of a gun with Luno skip sign over it. I didn't see the sign. You can't prove I saw the sign until you give me posted notice that that sign is there. I'm going to bring my gun in. Hopefully Crutch doesn't see this and now tries to ban me. But it's it's a rule, not law. And they recognize it. They know it. It's the rule of private property and private business. It is not a law governed by the state. When you go to the post office on the front door, as soon as you try to pull the door open, you're going to look at the sign that says no guns allowed. You can't you can't argue that. Like it's right there in your face. And they have codified statute that backs why you cannot bring a gun there. You got to respect that as law every single time because they quoted law on it. Now, people like to think about banks. The thing with this is a bank, even though their money might be insured, they are not on federal property. The money being federally insured has nothing to do with the physical property that they're on. Who owns the property? Does the government own the property that they're on? No, they don't. The money is just federally insured, which has nothing to do with the physical grounds. So, you are allowed to carry inside of a bank, even though they have the little uno skip sign over the gun picture. Again, they're they're not ever quoting statute of why you can't, therefore, you can. If they really wanted to prohibit you by law, they'd quote statute, which again, they they never do. So, banks are allowed to carry into um because like I just said and everything before, any place that legislative, legislative, committee, or the governing body. So, any place the government is, you are not allowed to be with your firearm. That's just plain and simple. We won't go deeper into that right now. Um, bars. You are not allowed to be at the bar with your firearm. You can sit at a high table of booth, consume alcohol with your gun on you. You just can't be over the legal blood limit when you're driving. Um, but it's not illegal to consume alcohol with your gun on you at a high table of booth. So, if you go to house, sit at a booth, order a beer, order a margarita, you're good to go. Engage while hunting, fish, or camping. That's the only time that you can open carry in the state. My rule is don't go to, you know, Turkey Lake Park or the beach with the AR-15 or your fishing pole. Like if I see that, I'm ready to shoot you cuz I do have my gun on the beach. Don't get me wrong, my gun is with me on the beach. If I see you doing that, I do not know if you are going to shoot this place up. All you really want to do is audit the police and I think you're a waste of time. Granted, do what you want. It's your right. It's your amendment. Free speech, all of those things, but you're I don't I don't see a purpose in it. I don't see a purpose in it. If you really want to shoot the If you really want to shoot the fish, go on a boat. Go on a boat. You're allowed to do it on the boat. Like, go on the boat. go deep water fishing and do it that way. I say just really don't go to where there are people who you are know who you know are going to call the cops on you for having the AR-15 on your back or the pistol like and it just on the tangent the AR-15 is the most ridiculous thing to have to kill a fish. A 22 would kill any fish perfectly fine. Like if you're doing a shark a 10 mil pistol would would take care of it. the AR-15, you're you want to get into a into a statutory and auditory debate with the police, which again is your right. You can do so. You usually win money for the lawsuit if they violate you. So, I mean, I'm not going to stop you from getting bred. I just personally don't agree with it. But like I said, get your money, live how you live. Grocery stores or liquor stores, absolutely carry an extra mag in the liquor stores. They get robbed all the time. Like, how many videos have we seen of liquor stores getting robbed? Uh, now we're going to get into some of the other main things that you need to know. So, this is again one of those top five things that you need to know when it comes to carrying a gun inside of the state of Florida, and it is stand your ground. Stand your ground, the use of force, and the use of deadly force. I'm going to kind of sum this one up instead of, you know, because I'm kind of reading from my concealed carry notes anyway. So, I'm going to kind of sum this one into how I articulate it already. Stand your ground is not the issue, but I know people have misconceptions about stand your ground, especially after the Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman here in Florida. I know people have misconceptions about it. I'm sorry this video was so long, but if you're still here, I really appreciate you. Um, hopefully I've added other things and other links and other advertisements in here of goodies that you can get to make yourself a better shooter, make yourself a more competent shooter, but if you're still with me right now, I really appreciate it. Stand your ground is controversial in Florida because of Trayvon Martin and George Zimmerman, but it's not the issue. Um, the issue is the way Florida lawmakers wrote stand your ground. And what stand your ground is is people get very confused. Standard ground simply means that if you, the person on the other side of this camera, is attacking me, literally in this instance right here. I don't have to turn my back to you and try to escape before I decide to plant my feet on the ground and face you. It doesn't mean I have to use a weapon. It doesn't mean I have to commit force or deadly force against you. It just means that I can steer you right in the face and be like, I'm not moving until you back off. If you're trying to rob me, I don't have to turn my back to you. I don't have to try to escape. We can sit here, look at each other, and go, "Okay, until one of us gets blew in the face or one of us decides to go home, we're just going to sit here and look at each other." Um, that's all stand your ground means. Now, the instance that you should use force or deadly force start to vary based off the situation that you're in. I tell people you should use it like a force continuum. You should use force first if you can and then escalate to deadly force. A lot of times people are just in your face talking. Here's a really good video of me dealing with the situation on private property as security. This is a perfect instance of if you are in a situation where you are in an altercation with a person and they're just yapping their mouth, they haven't really introduced a weapon. They haven't even tried to hit you. They're just jumping at you. Give them some of that agent orange like that mace is the best thing that you could use because norm typically it's going to stop them. So here's the video and let this [ __ ] touch me. Bro, use security dog. You going to pull your taser, bro? I got a lawsuit on this [ __ ] bro. Go home. Hey, you're a [ __ ] and a half, bro. [ __ ] you and [ __ ] you, [ __ ] Hey, go home, bro. [ __ ] you, bro. Go home. Using that mace is it should be your go-to a lot of times. Cuz here's the thing with armed security. Armed security, we don't have qualified immunity. Anything I do wrong is armed security, I am liable for just as you would be liable for as a civilian. Side note, I think more cops should have this. The only reason cops do what they do is because they know in the end, in the back of their head, they know there's a safety net called qualified immunity that will probably get them off in the end. If they had to be accountable for every situation that they do and they were legally liable civily and criminally for everything they do, we'd have a lot less instances. There's a lot of cops that already think this way and that's why we don't hear about them. We only hear about the ones where in the back of their head they know qualified immunity can get them off. The union will back them. That's why they do what they do in the end. My personal theory, again, just my personal theory, being on the opposite side of armed security where I am criminally and civily liable for everything, I'm just not doing certain things because I know it's going to lead to an issue in the end. Um, doesn't mean you don't have lawyers. Doesn't mean the department shouldn't back them and get them a lawyer and legal representation, but if they are able to be sued or face criminal or civil charges easier than just being like, "Hey, everything they did is they're immune for it because it was a part of their job." I think that's the reason we have so many issues and there's such a big tear in public relations between PD and the civilian life. Anyways, when it comes to using force, use force first. If you go and pull out a gun, like in this situation, right? I don't know what was happening here. This guy just pulls out a gun. Um, and I just see this altercation. There's a video I came across on Instagram and this one right here. Oh, hey, he cocked it. I'm not if something like that happens, um, you're kind of the issue in that moment. Like, you now open up the ability for them to use deadly force against you because you pulled a gun out prematurely. If someone has not brought a gun out or brought a weapon out, you do not need like you, how do you justify yourself bringing out a gun? Even if that person said, "Hey, I'm going to kill you. I'm going to do this. I'm going to do that." Those are just words. If they haven't if they haven't introduced the weapon, they're just talking. If you have the ability to get out of there while you have no duty to retreat, retreating might be the cheapest option. It might be the smartest option because the moment you pull the trigger, the moment you pull the gun out, things only get more complicated. Here's a good situation um from Palm Springs. Palm Bay. It's either Palm Springs or Palm Bay. It might be Palm Bay. Um and this one got a lot of attention. Lackluster did videos on it. Um Audit the Auditor did a video on it. But one, this guy brandishes a gun, which again, if this is kind of going into everything that we're talking about when it comes to brandishing, we don't have a definition of brandishing in Florida. But the moment a gun is introduced to the situation, whether you pull it or show it, things only get more complicated. And this one, this guy flashes the gun while he's at the pool because his wife was being a Karen and got to complaining and everything. He ended up facing charges for brandishing a firearm for which I I think his specific charges was brandishing a firearm. It might have been menacing or something like that, too. But him lifting his shirt to show that firearm when the guy never had a firearm. He was never confrontational. He never tried to actually hit them or anything like that. It made the situation complicated for him. He ended up having to do time over it. So introducing a firearm only makes the situation more complicated. And then on the reversal side, if you introduce a firearm when I have not introduced a firearm, I now have legal justification to escalate to deadly force against you because I think you're going to commit death or great bodily harm. The three things that we think about before we use deadly force is ability, opportunity, and jeopardy. Somebody should have the ability to kill a [ __ ] They have gun, bow, and arrow, something that shoots a projectile at a high speed or velocity. They have the ability to kill a [ __ ] you can start to articulate why it's necessary if they have the opportunity. If they have a knife with inside of 7 ft of you, which again, here's a good video of somebody with a knife within a very close proximity. Dude, this guy had the ability and he had the opportunity to kill a [ __ ] The other the biker guy could have justified using deadly force against him all day long. His life was in jeopardy. Do it. You got a knife. He doesn't have nothing. A road rage incident in Florida turned into a showdown between two drivers and could have ended tragically. Oh. Oh, no. Babe, I got it on film. Put the thing down right now, mother. Go ahead. According to inches closer, inches closer and his whole stomach would have been cut, he has the justification right then and there to use deadly force. Um, and then I always say the bonus criteria is intent. If you can articulate the intent of another individual and what they're doing and their mannerisms in the moment, it usually makes it a clean-cut case. Like in a lot of instances that I've seen personally with the team that I'm involved in, you know, you might not even have to go down to the station to go to the interrogation room. If you can articulate the intent, there's video evidence and you got a clear articulation of what was going on. They had the ability. They had the opportunity. This is how my life was in jeopardy. This was their intentions in the moment. Case closed right then and there like they're going to jail. You can go home in the end. They'll the police will give you a call if they need more information from you. So these these are the kind of the the aspects of stand your ground and this is really the meat of what it is to have a firearm in the state of Florida. Like this is the self-p protection aspect of it. When it comes to stand your ground, you especially we're talking in the public and then we'll end on the last one which is the protection of the home. When it comes to stand your ground, you don't have to use force or deadly force. Stand your ground does not immediately use does not immediately mean use force or deadly force. It just means you don't have to turn your back. You should use force when the person has not introduced a weapon. Use mace, use your hands, push them away. If there has been no weapon introduced to the situation, you should use force. The moment a weapon is introduced to a situation in any way, shape, or form and you personally have not introduced a weapon, you should now start to think about using deadly force against that person to protect your life because you can articulate it. At the point you're going to use deadly force and you're thinking about it, the criteria you need to go now, ability, opportunity, and jeopardy. Get those three criteria taken care of. If you can articulate intent as that fourth one, get those taken care of. You're going to it's going to have to be a quick process. You're going to have to think of this really quickly on the spot as the situation is developing. But if you can think about these if you feel like all if you feel like at least they have the ability and opportunity, you usually can articulate how your life's in jeopardy. At that point, it's up to you. Once your life is in jeopardy, that's the point you're you're going to pull the trigger. Life's in jeopardy, you pull the trigger. If you can articulate the first two, the third is usually justified and it's up to you. In the situation that I just played with the biker, ability and opportunity were justified. His life is in jeopardy and it's up to him whether he pulled the trigger or not. Whether you do, you don't, it's on you from that point forward. You just got to live with the consequences. Whether if you're hurt really bad or if you're not, hopefully it works out in your favor. But if it doesn't, again, it's up to you how you choose to protect yourself in that situation. Okay, let's talk about firearm inside of the protection of property. This is really where we start to end. Um, in Florida, you can't you can't protect property. Like, it's very simple. There's no there's no long argument against it. You cannot protect property. Hopefully, by the time I'm editing this, I found the video of the guy kicking the bed of the truck. And I always reference this one, but I don't put it in my slides. Um, if somebody's kicking the bed of your truck, like, you're not just trying to protect protecting property. You're just not. We've seen a bunch of cases where people have protected property. We got the one where the little boy died um because he knocked on the wrong house trying to go get his brother. You're not justified in protect I don't know if that case was in Florida, but you're not justified in protecting property. The one I really like to go with is the couple during 2020 um which since I'm now making this video, I'm going to figure out that they were in Florida or not because I just never went to go look it up. The couple that decided that they were going to boast with their firearms on their property because they were kids protesting inside of the middle of their street. Keep moving. We are not under [Applause] [Applause] You're not just fighting protecting property. In most states, even in Texas, where everyone loves to say, "Oh, get off my land." The only time you can protect property inside of Texas is at night. If it's daytime, you can't just go you can't just go shooting somebody because they're on your property. You can't protect property. If somebody's trespassing or interfering with your property, it's usually never justified. The only time there's really an exception is if there's arson. If somebody's, you know, gasoline with the match molotov cocktail fire maliciously pointed at your house. Outside the deli, igniting the explosive device before throwing it inside the store. Video from inside shows how the bottle exploded and quickly engulfed the store in flames. Yeah. Yeah, if they try to throw that at your car, I'm going to shoot you through my windshield. Point blank. Like, there's no there's no if ends or buts about it. I'm not letting that happen. Um, but typically there's no protection of property. So, if someone's breaking into your car, if the YN is breaking into your car, go to your car. Like, you can go up there and you can mace them. Granted, be mindful. Don't go out there with no gun on you. Like, the gun is on me 100%. Like, if someone breaks into my car right now, the gun is I'm going to grab the gun. The gun is on me. I'm just not going to pull it out until until I can articulate how my life's in danger. If I can't articulate how my life's in danger, I really can't justify pulling this gun out in this moment. Protection inside of the home. When it comes to protecting yourself inside of the home, the moment somebody crosses, especially in Florida, listen to Sheriff Grady. We have received information in social media that some of the criminals were going to take their criminal conduct into the neighborhoods. I would tell them if you value your life, you probably shouldn't do that in Pole County. Because the people of P County like guns, they have guns. I encourage them to own guns. And they're going to be in their homes tonight with their guns loaded. And if you try to break into their homes to steal, to set fires, I'm highly recommending they blow you back out of the house with their guns. The moment somebody crosses the threshold inside of the home, you're mine all day long. I don't need any justification. I can assume I can assume you're coming to commit murder of everybody in the house. As soon as they cross the threshold, let them have it. Now, people then like to ask me, "What if it hits them in the back?" You're talking California laws. You're not talking Florida laws. Every state has different criteria. Every state, some states like to govern how you protect yourself in the house. Other states don't. in Florida. What did Sheriff Grady say? I'm highly recommending they blow you back out of the house with their guns. Listen to him. Shoot them. It doesn't matter how many times they get hit. Doesn't matter where they get hit. Until they make it out the door, I'mma keep shooting because you can be running that way and shooting that way. We see it all the time in different videos. So, if they break into the home, you have all right to protect your castle castle doctrine. Inside of the car, inside of the home, you have all right to protect yourself. So, inside of the home, like I said, they break in, let them have it all day long. Here's a caveat. If you're at your friend's house, my rule of thumb, if you would shoot them at Walmart, shoot them at your friend's house. You will never shoot somebody at Walmart for stealing. But if they had a gun or knife to somebody's head or neck threatening life, you contemplate taking that shot. And so, you can articulate how life's in danger is not your issue. It's not your job if you're not at home. Now, I was in I was in Miami. And here's Do I want to tell that story? [ __ ] it. I've already started. was in Miami, Windwood, walked into a bar that was open. Um, it wasn't really a bar. It was like this giant, if you I think it's called the marketplace. If you're ever, if you're from Windwood, you know about the marketplace. They sell alcohol inside, but the whole thing ain't a bar. So, we could go in with our firearms. Anyways, go in. Things are developing. I see a situation developing, but I'm going mind my business because it's not my business. 10 steps later, I hear two shots ring up. Bam. And this goes into like kind of mastering. It's kind of the same thing with like the Walmart thing. Um, my back is turned to the situation. So, I don't see anybody being hit. I don't see life in danger. Naturally, I want to go and pull my gun. The shots happen behind me. I don't see anybody in danger. I don't see life in danger. Naturally, I want to go and pull my gun, but I don't right away. My hand just goes there because instincts are kicking in. Training's taking over. I see people looking at me weird. And I'm like, why are you looking at me? Oh, I'm touching a gun and you just heard gunshots. You don't know if it was me or not. If you go pulling out your gun in the wrong situations where you're just in the public, especially if police response time is quick, which in this situation it wasn't that quick. But if police response time is quick, you're the person with a gun in your hand right now. You good luck talking six officers down, even talking one hype. Let's say you have no idea if that guy's a rookie. You have no idea if this is his first situation. You have no idea. He is hype. He is code three there. Full speed ahead. Reports of a gun, gunshots being fired, and you got a gun in your hand trying to be Superman, trying to be John Wick. What do you think the officer is going to do? Do you think you'll be able to talk him down before he pulls that trigger on you? He's going to give you a command and he might pull the trigger right then. Qualified immunity. Remember that one. If you're in the public and you don't see the situation happening right in front of you. And I mean like like gunshots ring out and like within the 3 to 5 seconds of processing information, you don't see the guy with the gun, you don't see the person hit, you don't see the person drop, it's not your situation. It's not your situation. Now, if it's a mass shooting where the gunshots keep ringing out, right? They just keep going, separate separate situation that you can deal with. But if it's an isolated event, bam, bam, it's not your job if you are not literally watching it happen within the 0 to 5 second span that it happens. And that's how long most isolated gun incidents are. 0 to 5 seconds. Like 3 to 5 seconds is as much time as you got to see, process, evaluate, ability, opportunity, and jeopardy, intent, act. That's how fast you have to think. 3 to 5 seconds. super quick. If you don't see that happening and you're at third person's property, don't do it. If I go to your house to watch Super Bowl, I don't know if somebody can just come in through the window whenever they want. I'm like, "Got one." You're like, "That's my brother." Well, sorry. Now, if your brother comes in through the window with a gun or knife, I'm assuming y'all just had a following out and he is coming to commit murder. So, like, um, let me think. What else matters to you inside of carrying a firearm in the state of Florida? I've gone through a lot. Um, and I think I think I've hit the most important points for when it comes to carrying a fine in the state of Florida. I'm not going to give you my entire concealed carry class because I do want you to come and take the concealed carry class. Spoiler, it's $75. It's about two hours. If it's just you in the class, I could probably get it done about an hour and a half. Um, number right there, link in the description if you want to go ahead and book that to learn more because I do have more topics that I go into when it comes to this class. But I think those are the top things that you need to know when it comes to carrying a firearm in the state of Florida. The class has been fairly long. So this is 44 minutes. So roughly this is almost about how long it would take you to, you know, go through the class and actually get your concealed weapons permit. In the end, I'd give you the certificate. Then you take it to the Department of Agriculture who governs us. And then boom, 3 to 5 weeks later, you get your license and you'd shoot with me. Um, but if you've watched this far, you should go ahead and take the class. For the most part, you've already taken the class because I've given you a lot of the information, which is what I like to do is give you this information for free. These are the most important things and these are kind of some of the in-depth topics that you need to know when it comes to carrying a firearm in the state of Florida. Um, thank you for watching. Again, merch will be for sale. I guess this is the first video I'll promote the merch in off the beep. Um, it's a very cool saying that we have in the range community or in the farms training community where our shot timer is the beep. Uh the beep is pretty much your opportunity at anything. It is the moment that you need to go ahead and execute at all your skills, everything that you've trained for. The beep is that moment in every sport. There is a beep. It is a whistle. There is some simulation of a sound that says go for it. This is your time to perform. I am done talking because I need to drink a little bit more water. So, thank you. I will see you on the next one. Stay on mission and I appreciate you guys for watching this [ __ ] off the