DeSantis Signs Bill On Returning Guns To Arrestees

Florida Politics reports:

People arrested by law enforcement are in line to get guns back sooner from police forces after Gov. Ron DeSantis signed legislation to that effect Friday.

SB 1286, sponsored by Sen. Jay Collins, holds that “weapons, electric weapons or devices, or arms that are taken from a person … that are not either seized as evidence or seized and subject to forfeiture … must be returned upon request to the person from whom the weapons, electric weapons or devices, or arms were taken within 30 days after such request is made.”

The language establishes further parameters for law enforcement to “develop reasonable procedures to ensure the timely return of weapons, electric weapons or devices or arms.”

Read the full article. Sen. Jay Collins recently appeared here for his bills banning “cultivated meat” and banning Pride flags from schools and public buildings.

Florida arrestees will have easier time getting weapons back under new law signed by @GovRonDeSantis. Yet some restrictions apply.

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