Moving to an apartment with guns

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Is there anything I need to know? Do I tell the people I rent from? Do I make it a point to not tell them? Can I be evicted just for owning guns?

Extra info: I'm moving within Florida (to Tallahassee) to an off campus apartment. The guns are mine, and I have a permit. I didn't see anything about guns anywhere in any paperwork.

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Unless it's specifically noted in your lease,,,

Unless it's specifically noted in your lease,,,
You are under no legal obligation whatsoever to disclose your ownership.

I do not believe that you can be evicted simply for owning firearms unless it is in the lease,,,
But on the other hand I wouldn't advertise you have them either.

A friend of mine who wears a tin-foil hat,,,
Uses a ratty old guitar case to get his guns to the car,,,
His reasoning is sound in that he doesn't want to attract thieves.

Aarond

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Florida doesn't issue permits to own a gun. They issue a permit to carry a handgun concealed.

If it is not specifically prohibited in the lease, and you are complying with any "safe storage" laws that Florida may have, you should not have any problems.
 
I used to live in an apartment with firearms. The landlord more or less left me alone and rarely visited. When he did visit, I had some boxes that I put around my RSC to hide it so it wouldn't be brought up in conversation, good or bad. The maintenance guy brought up firearms first so he was nice to chat with.

Every time I renewed my lease I went over it with a fine tooth comb looking for anything firearm related. When I got my eviction notice out of the blue I thought it was firearms related and it took a good 3 months with an attorney to reveal it wasn't.
 
I was a Florida landlord of over 100 tenants for 20 years. You have no worries. Pack your gun. ;)

Extra info: I'm moving within Florida (to Tallahassee) to an off campus apartment. The guns are mine, and I have a permit. I didn't see anything about guns anywhere in any paperwork.
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You may have a problem......You stated off campus housing. That leads me to believe that you will be a college student. Some colleges have firearm limitations even for off campus students. I remember seeing some cases where the students were expelled for lawful use of their firearm off campus.

Better to have your weapons and ignore what some administration thinks then to be without.
 
You may have a problem......You stated off campus housing. That leads me to believe that you will be a college student. Some colleges have firearm limitations even for off campus students. I remember seeing some cases where the students were expelled for lawful use of their firearm off campus.

Better to have your weapons and ignore what some administration thinks then to be without.
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If you're referring to the story that I think you are that was a college owned off campus apartment complex. If this is just a regular apartment and there's nothing in the lease about guns he should be fine.
 
As stated, check the lease. As a landlord I don't care. Missouri is trying to pass a law to keep guns out of rentals. "People should not have to live in a place where neighbors have guns". BS. The tenant has rights. As a landlord I can't enter the property if the tenant says no. I fail to see how being a tenant instead of an owner ends your constitutional rights.
 
You mis read my post his problem could be with the college where he is enrolled not with a landlord. Some colleges think they cam pull all kinds of crap that violates students legal rights.
 
hartcreek said:
You may have a problem......You stated off campus housing. That leads me to believe that you will be a college student. Some colleges have firearm limitations even for off campus students. I remember seeing some cases where the students were expelled for lawful use of their firearm off campus.

Better to have your weapons and ignore what some administration thinks then to be without.
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I didn't consider this in my answer.

If the "off campus apartment" you're referring to is off campus housing which actually belongs to the university/college, then it's considered an extension of the campus. Therefore all campus rules apply and you are not likely to be permitted to have firearms. For "not likely to be permitted", just assume this means you can't have them. There are exceptions, but you're not likely to meet them.

If it's simply an apartment which is not associated with campus housing, then it's a non-issue.
 
Mainsail writes:

Posting this question without revealing what state you're in is pretty pointless.
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Extra info: I'm moving within Florida (to Tallahassee) to an off campus apartment. The guns are mine, and I have a permit. I didn't see anything about guns anywhere in any paperwork.
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Was that added after your response? (I don't see the "edited" tag.)

Even if he had not included the state, I don't see how the question would be "pointless". Are there really that many states in which the lawful possession of firearms is available only to homeowners.? Virtually every state regards one's domicile to be where one lives, regardless of whether he pays to live there, or pays for it and lives there.
 
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You can buy a house for that! I kid--sort of.
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It was a free attorney. Huge military benefit is free legal representation. But yes it would cost me a house if I was paying for it.
 
Even if he had not included the state, I don't see how the question would be "pointless". Are there really that many states in which the lawful possession of firearms is available only to homeowners.? Virtually every state regards one's domicile to be where one lives, regardless of whether he pays to live there, or pays for it and lives there.
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Its not the city/state that would be the issue its the property owner, some might decide to get cute and put no firearms in the lease agreement. Violating it wouldn't be a crime, but getting caught would certainly present difficulties. If its not a college owned property in all likelihood guns would be fine. From what I've heard you mostly have to worry about that sort of thing in a lease where gun ownership is rare.

The main thing the OP needs to clarify is: does your school own the building you will be living in? If so then yes your life can be made unpleasant if your guns are found. If not and the lease says nothing about guns you're as free to own as many guns as you would be in a building you own
 
I have been out of college since 98. I live in Washington State. For those of you that know this state I went to Heritage College. When I was there we had administrators trying to block students from legal carry on campus. They ileagally tried to rewright the coleeges student constitution. Fortunately I was ASB Vice President at the time and myself and a law student stopped it. The college board then enacted their own student requirements in direct violation with state law.

The state requires that the college follow state law in order to recieve state funding. Meaning that the college could not accept state tuition money as long as they tried pushing their own agenda.

I have no doubt that the board has won their own way by now but not on my watch.
 
When I lived in a rental apartment (many years ago) my biggest concern was security. Maintenance guys would come into the apartment, without notice, when I was away at work. I was worried that even if they were honest, they might talk to their friends about the presence of guns, and then their friends might break in and steal. What I did was put the gun cabinets and gun safe into the walk-in closet, and install a keyed lock on the closet door. I even "pinned" the hinges on the closet door (since it opened outwards). Basically, this was just to keep prying eyes away from the guns. (There would be no reason for maintenance to try to break into the closet.)
 
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Its not the city/state that would be the issue its the property owner, some might decide to get cute and put no firearms in the lease agreement. Violating it wouldn't be a crime, but getting caught would certainly present difficulties.
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Even if he had not included the state, I don't see how the question would be "pointless". Are there really that many states in which the lawful possession of firearms is available only to homeowners.? Virtually every state regards one's domicile to be where one lives, regardless of whether he pays to live there, or pays for it and lives there.
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That was part of my point, but the issue of it being the owner was already addressed. My point was more about how he didn't need to be chastised for not including the state (and he actually had included the state.)
 
MedWheeler said:
Vamo writes:
My point was more about how he didn't need to be chastised for not including the state (and he actually had included the state.)
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There was no chastisement, just an observation.

The state wasn't originally in the OP. Asking advice that will vary widely by state is pointless- as it will only result in speculation and argument.

There's a place in your profile to include your state, and it will appear under your username. Some forums require it for the reason stated above.
 
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