Florida CCW interpretation question

[David Scott]

Florida law forbids carryingt concealed at "any school, college, or professional athletic event not related to firearms". Can anyone advise me on whether this spplies to the following situations?

1. Horse racing tracks. Is this considered an athletic event? Ditto motor racing like NASCAR, IRL or NHRA.

2. Olympic competition. It's not school, college or profesional, is it?

3. If the starter uses a pistol to start a race, does that make the event "related to firearms"?

4. Are rodeos considered profesional athletic events? How about dance competitions?

Just curious. I promise not to take anybody's opinions as qualified legal advice.

 

[TheBluesMan]

IMO, if you can smoke a cig and drink a beer while participating in it, it ain't an "athletic event"

This would include the sports: Bowling, Golf, Billiards, and, if you're John Candy, Racquetball. Of course I participate in these "sports" as much as possible.

Seriously, you may want to contact a Florida lawyer in reference to this; 'course you might end up getting a lawyer's opinion right here in this thread.

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[RWK]

Under our legal system and throughout the US, these are traditional "questions for the jury". Legislatures will not enact laws with overly specific details and police/prosecutors tend to enforce the laws and to litigate as they are taught (LEOs) or as local politics dictate (state's attorneys). This means it is up to the juries (grand and trial) to decide if, to use one of your examples, an Olympic sporting event is appropriately included within the Florida statute. Frequently, common sense will prevail; for instance, your illustration of a starter's pistol making a sporting event "firearms related" might reasonably be perceived as an unrealistic "stretching" of the law by a jury.