Miami Weapons Offenses Lawyer 

Carrying a concealed firearm is a third degree felony and can be punished with a maximum of 5 years in prison or 5 years of probation and a $5,000 fine.

Another commonly charged firearm offense is improper exhibition of dangerous weapons or firearms under section 790.10. You can be charged if you are carrying a weapon and in the presence of at least one person and exhibit it in an angry, careless, rude, or threatening way. You won’t be convicted if you were doing this in necessary self-defense.

If you were convicted of another felony and then possess a firearm knowingly, or else knowingly have in your care a firearm, control the firearm, or own the firearm, you can face a charge of possession of a firearm by a convicted felon under Florida Statutes section 790.23. You can be charged whether you actually possessed the firearm or just constructively possessed it.

You can face a conviction for possession or discharge of a destructive device under Florida Statutes section 790.161 if you willfully and illegally possess, make, project, throw, discharge, or place a destructive device, or try to do any of these activities with a destructive device.

Destructive devices include a wide range of things, like:

• Bombs
• Rockets
• Mines
• Grenades

• Missiles
• Pipe-bombs
• Containers containing incendiaries, explosives, and other destructive things

Enhancements

You may face a sentencing enhancement if you perpetrate another crime using weapons or firearms. For example, you can face a mandatory minimum prison sentence if you carried, discharged, or shot or killed somebody with a firearm while perpetrating certain specified violent crimes.

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