Originally Posted by FlaRick
Terry,

When I took the required course to get my FL concealed weapon permit, the instructor told the class that it was against Florida law to discharge a weapon as a warning. Can you confirm if this is true? The instructor's advice was not to pull the weapon unless you are justified to use it, and if you pull it, use it to eliminate the threat.

Rick


Yessir, it is in FLA. statute that threatening is a form of aggravated assault. Firing a warning shot can be a chargeable offense here if it can in anyway be construed as posing a danger to another. You instructor was correct in advising in never presenting a weapon as a threat. Only time you should pull a weapon (gun, knife, bludgeon or less than lethal) is to immediately use it for LAWFUL self defense against IMMINENT death or great bodily harm to yourself or another.
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