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What if the felon uses an imitation gun to commit a crime in Florida? Will he or she still get 10 years in the slammer, or less? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.156.10.11 ( talk) 07:39, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
> no, the enhancements only apply to actual possession of a real firearm. Note that this means both actual possession (as opposed to constructive) and a real firearm (as opposed to something that appears to be a firearm).
> note that some courts have decided that a toy gun can still support a conviction for a crime that requires use of a firearm or deadly weapon. If the victim is fooled, the jury can convict. So you could get 15 years in prison for agg battery with a deadly weapon but not get the 10 year mandatory minimum from 10-20-Life. In the below case, the guy had a BB gun that had no gas in it and was broken. He swung the pistol and hit his wife in the face with it. His conviction was upheld.
>> incidentally, what the fuck is Prison Releasee Reoffender doing in 10-20-Life. it's a completely separate portion of the sentencing code that deals with different factual scenarios. you can be subject to 10-20-Life, PRR or both at the same time depending on the facts of the case and your criminal record. 207.203.239.2 ( talk) 22:49, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
The penalties are the same. Minimum of 10 yrs. KING GRIM LOL YO WHATS UP ( talk) 08:45, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
What actually constitutes a "high capacity box magazine"? And should that be in the article? Furthermore, isn't, as far as handguns are concerned, "semi-automatic weapon with a box magazine" equivalent to "any handgun that isn't a revolver" ? 93.205.216.192 ( talk) 14:17, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Law has been reformed and subsequently appealed. Helpful sources:
Will integrate more detailed information when I have the time. Swarm ♠ 20:20, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia seems to go out of its way to find other reasons for the drastic decline in violent crime since the passage of this law, even going as far as positing unsubstantiated hypotheticals by a leftist professor. Can't you just say that these laws work? Look at the other extreme; California and other leftist hellholes have explicitly gutted criminal laws as well as anything resembling effective bail and criminals literally run the streets. 2603:8001:C200:1637:116F:FFFC:8A89:26F0 ( talk) 01:25, 4 August 2023 (UTC)
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What if the felon uses an imitation gun to commit a crime in Florida? Will he or she still get 10 years in the slammer, or less? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 202.156.10.11 ( talk) 07:39, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
> no, the enhancements only apply to actual possession of a real firearm. Note that this means both actual possession (as opposed to constructive) and a real firearm (as opposed to something that appears to be a firearm).
> note that some courts have decided that a toy gun can still support a conviction for a crime that requires use of a firearm or deadly weapon. If the victim is fooled, the jury can convict. So you could get 15 years in prison for agg battery with a deadly weapon but not get the 10 year mandatory minimum from 10-20-Life. In the below case, the guy had a BB gun that had no gas in it and was broken. He swung the pistol and hit his wife in the face with it. His conviction was upheld.
>> incidentally, what the fuck is Prison Releasee Reoffender doing in 10-20-Life. it's a completely separate portion of the sentencing code that deals with different factual scenarios. you can be subject to 10-20-Life, PRR or both at the same time depending on the facts of the case and your criminal record. 207.203.239.2 ( talk) 22:49, 20 November 2012 (UTC)
The penalties are the same. Minimum of 10 yrs. KING GRIM LOL YO WHATS UP ( talk) 08:45, 30 January 2012 (UTC)
What actually constitutes a "high capacity box magazine"? And should that be in the article? Furthermore, isn't, as far as handguns are concerned, "semi-automatic weapon with a box magazine" equivalent to "any handgun that isn't a revolver" ? 93.205.216.192 ( talk) 14:17, 11 June 2017 (UTC)
Law has been reformed and subsequently appealed. Helpful sources:
Will integrate more detailed information when I have the time. Swarm ♠ 20:20, 3 October 2017 (UTC)
Wikipedia seems to go out of its way to find other reasons for the drastic decline in violent crime since the passage of this law, even going as far as positing unsubstantiated hypotheticals by a leftist professor. Can't you just say that these laws work? Look at the other extreme; California and other leftist hellholes have explicitly gutted criminal laws as well as anything resembling effective bail and criminals literally run the streets. 2603:8001:C200:1637:116F:FFFC:8A89:26F0 ( talk) 01:25, 4 August 2023 (UTC)