Florida’s Attorney General is throwing down the gauntlet against Jacksonville’s rogue gun owner registry tucked away at City Hall, labeling it an illegal overreach that’s got 2A defenders cheering from the rooftops. The controversy erupted when it surfaced that city officials were compiling a list of concealed carry permit holders spotted carrying legally at public buildings—yes, you read that right, a blacklist for exercising a fundamental right. AG Ashley Moody’s office jumped in after legal alarms blared, citing violations of state preemption laws that bar localities from meddling in firearms regulation. This isn’t some dusty footnote; it’s a direct assault on Florida’s robust permit system, where over 2.8 million law-abiding citizens hold concealed carry licenses without Big Brother’s watchful eye turning it into a surveillance dragnet.
Dig deeper, and this reeks of the same anti-2A playbook we’ve seen nationwide—from New York’s post-Bruen permit denials to California’s red flag registries morphing into gun confiscation wish lists. Jacksonville’s stunt? It’s a microcosm of urban elites chafing against state-level protections like Florida’s 2023 permitless carry law, which obliterated barriers for adults 21 and up. By targeting carriers at City Hall—a place where open or concealed carry is explicitly allowed under state statute—the city wasn’t enhancing safety; it was laying groundwork for harassment, doxxing, or worse, selective enforcement against the wrong political profiles. Imagine your name on a list because you dared exercise Heller, McDonald, and Bruen rights in a government building. The implications for the 2A community are seismic: this probe could set precedent, forcing other blue-city fiefdoms to dismantle their illicit databases and reinforcing that local tyrants don’t get to rewrite the Second Amendment.
For gun owners, the takeaway is crystal clear—stay vigilant, document everything, and support AG Moody’s push to crush this nonsense. If Jacksonville folds (and it should, fast), it’ll be a win not just for Floridians but a blueprint for red states nationwide to preemptively neuter similar schemes. Share this far and wide; the registry rats are watching, but so are we. Stay armed, stay legal, and keep Florida free.
