Florida AG threatens to personally sue officials after police ban guns at local festival

[PAGunGuy]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/f...099a4532d14e1c9af76c0652cc3d28&ei=63#comments

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is threatening public officials with personal lawsuits after a local police department tried to ban firearms at an upcoming street festival.

The clash began when the Atlantic Beach Police Department posted a notice on Facebook detailing the rules for the “Dancin’ In The Street 2026” event, scheduled for Saturday, May 16. In the post outlining road closures and parking restrictions, the department included a bulleted list of prohibited items within the Beaches Town Center event zone, explicitly stating: “No Firearms, weapons, ammo.”

Florida law strictly prohibits local governments and police departments from creating their own gun regulations, a legal principle known as preemption that reserves firearm legislation exclusively for the state government.

 

[HayesGreener]

I think the problem is with how they are going about it. The city commission passed an ordinance prohibiting firearms at such events. Florida statutes prohibit local government from enacting laws and ordinances that are more restrictive than state laws. The city is clearly in violation.

If it were on private property, guns could be prohibited by organizers with check points, bag checks, magnetometers, etc.

 

[PAGunGuy]

Must be nice to have an AG who not only understands, but upholds, the state constitution.
Back when we had Shapiro in PA, he actually supported cities (Philadelphia, Pittsburgh, Erie) that blatantly ignored the constitution - and he lost.

 

[HayesGreener]

It will be interesting to see how it ends. Its a rich community with about 13,000 residents and I wager that many of them migrated there from the communist states

 

[LDB]

They need a vote test. Anyone who has voted for a democrat within 20 years is prohibited from moving there. Wish we had that here in Texas.

 

[bc22wm]

At least eight people were injured Saturday in Modena, Italy when a crazed driver rammed his car into a crowd at full speed WORLD NEWS May 16, 2026

2 Dead After Driver Plows Into Crowd in ‘Rampage’ in Germany NYT May 4 2026

30 people were injured after a car plowed through a crowd early Saturday in East Hollywood, Los Angeles. ABC July 19, 2025

 

[HayesGreener]

I can appreciate what the city is worried about. They will be indunated by msny thousands, most of them peaceful. Then packs of thugs will invariably show up. A really heavy police presence is definitely needed.

 

[Belt Fed]

If a certain culture would stop killing each other at gatherings these bans might not be so plentiful.