Florida AG to HOA: Drop the Gun Ban by June 1 or We'll See You in Court

The HOA board made a classic mistake: they assumed that because they controlled the covenants, they controlled the Constitution.

They were wrong.

Uthmeier's office fired a formal legal warning at the association with a non-negotiable deadline—**rescind the common-area firearms ban by June 1, or face the full legal weight of the State of Florida.**

Florida Statute 790.33 doesn't leave much room for interpretation: firearms regulation belongs exclusively to the state legislature. Not the county. Not the city. And certainly not a neighborhood board with a gavel and a grudge. The HOA either didn't know the law or didn't care. Either way, Uthmeier just made that ignorance their emergency.

**This is what a state AG's office is supposed to look like.**

Instead of waiting for some lawsuit-exhausted resident to drain their savings fighting a well-funded HOA legal team, Florida stepped in first. Gun owners in that community shouldn't have to choose between their pool access and their constitutional rights. Now they don't have to.

Here's the bigger picture—and it should make your blood run cold.

HOAs have quietly become one of the most effective backdoors for gun control in America. Restrictions buried in dense covenants, hidden in community rules, normalized before most homeowners even realize they signed them away. Michael Bloomberg and his allied organizations have spent years and millions promoting exactly this playbook: if you can't ban guns through the legislature, route around it through private governance. Florida just roadblocked that route.

Watch June 1 like a hawk.

If this HOA folds, it sends a warning shot to every association board in Florida that's been quietly testing the same waters. If it doesn't fold, Uthmeier gets to make a very public example of them in court—and 2A precedent gets stronger either way. **Gun owners win both outcomes.**

The closer: This story is bigger than one HOA in Port St. Lucie. It's a blueprint. A sitting AG using the actual power of his office to crush preemptive gun control before it gets normalized. That almost never happens. Which means when it does, you pay attention—and you make sure your own HOA's covenants don't have a surprise waiting for you on page 47.

Read your HOA rules. If you're in Florida and your board is running this same scheme, Uthmeier's office wants to hear from you. The law is on your side. Now so is the AG.