Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier announced a $5 million lawsuit against the City of Jacksonville for allegedly keeping an illegal gun registry. “We are taking the City of Jacksonville to court for knowingly and willfully keeping an illegal gun registry in violation of Florida law,” Uthmeier said. Watch the announcement: We are taking the City of Jacksonville to court for knowingly and willfully keeping an illegal gun registry in violation of Florida law. pic.twitter.com/0WNJ38c0xZ — Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) May 12, 2026 News4JAX has more: In March, Uthmeier challenged state attorney Melissa Nelson’s decision not to pursue criminal charges after finding that city of Jacksonville security logbooks kept records of privately-owned firearms and the people who carried them into two city buildings. In a letter responding to Nelson’s Jan. 2, 2026, decision, Attorney General James Uthmeier said his office lacks jurisdiction to prosecute but has a duty under Florida Statutes, to promote consistent enforcement of state law. Uthmeier wrote that section 790.335(2)(a), Florida Statutes, makes it unlawful for a “local government” or an “employee of … [a] government entity” to “knowingly and willfully keep or cause to be kept any list, record, or registry of privately owned firearms or any list, record, or registry of the owners of those firearms.” Uthmeier’s letter says logbooks kept from July 2023 to April 2025 contained “more than 140 entries recording the names, birthdates, ID numbers, and firearm types of over 100 individuals.” The attorney general concluded those entries constitute a forbidden “list, record, or registry” because the entries documented privately-owned firearms, regardless of whether the log explicitly stated private ownership. Uthmeier also rejected the state attorney’s finding that no one acted “knowingly and willfully,” writing that the statute’s mental-state terms require only that a person intended to keep a log and knew the log documented privately owned firearms. Ignorance of the law, he said, is not a defense. “The City of Jacksonville’s creation of a gun registry for any reason is unlawful and reprehensible,” Uthmeier previously said. The conclusion of this investigation without charges or accountability is unacceptable. State Attorney Melissa Nelson will be hearing from my office soon. The City of Jacksonville’s creation of a gun registry for any reason is unlawful and reprehensible. This isn’t over. https://t.co/mfmpcfbqWU — Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) December 31, 2025 “Under the law, the Attorney General can pursue civil penalties of $5 million against municipalities if it’s proven they were complicit in and aware of the creation and maintenance of a gun registry,” Action News Jax stated. City leaders respond to AG’s lawsuit against Jacksonville’s gun registry https://t.co/Lst0nu81mG pic.twitter.com/Ay3dopn0ql — ActionNewsJax (@ActionNewsJax) May 13, 2026 Action News Jax shared further: An eight-month investigation by the State Attorney’s Office found no criminal wrongdoing, with the final report contending the city employee involved did not realize what they were doing violated the law. But in the newly filed suit, Uthmeier argued that as far back as 2007, city attorneys had addressed the question of tracking gun owners who entered city buildings. He alleged that in that year, a memo drafted by city attorneys specifically warned the city could not create or maintain a gun registry. The AG also claimed that, because the logbook policy was crafted by the city facility manager and approved by the City’s Deputy Chief Administrative Officer, it was therefore “compiled and maintained with the knowledge or complicity of City management”. The allegation the logbook policy was approved by former Deputy Chief Administrative Officer Charles Moreland is a departure from the State Attorney’s Office report, which asserted the directive was never reviewed or approved by “any senior official in either the Curry or Deegan administrations”. Moreland served in both. Appointed by former Mayor Lenny Curry in 2022, Moreland served continued to serve as Deputy CAO under Mayor Donna Deegan for about two months after she took office. The AG’s complaint alleges he approved the logbook policy on July 13th, less than two weeks after Deegan entered office.

I’ve covered Donald Trump’s mother, Mary Anne Trump, here on WLT Report before in the past, but we have so many new people here you might not have seen this. Talk about a chip off the old block and the apple not falling far from the tree….now we see EXACTLY where Donald Trump gets it! These two look so similar it’s incredible! Watch this clip from this rare 1994 interview where she opens up about her family, the son they tragically lost, which was shot when Donald Trump was busy making his Home Alone 2 cameo. Watch here: President Trump’s mother in a rare interview talking about her family, including the son she tragically lost. At the time, Trump was filming his Home Alone 2 cameo. She also talks about the thrill of flying on her son’s helicopter. Trump was raised by a First Class Mom. pic.twitter.com/R1szJY5Oak — Alec Lace (@AlecLace) May 10, 2026 Backup here if needed: Donald Trump’s mother….WOW! The resemblance and the mannerisms are uncacnny!

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier has filed a lawsuit seeking a $5 million civil penalty against the City of Jacksonville, alleging that the municipality maintained an illegal registry of law-abiding gun owners.