Florida AG Smacks HOA Over Firearms Ban

This is the kind of story I love to see. Florida attorney general issues warning to Port St. Lucie HOA over firearms ban

There plenty of stories out there, apparently a few on Redit, and even some on YouTube, about Homeowners Associations, and the Karens that run them, getting smacked down while overstepping their authority. While most of those stories are fiction, this one is a true story.

A week or so ago, the board of directors for Tradition Community, in Port St. Lucie, Florida, changed their bylaws to forbid the carrying of weapons, concealed or open, in all common areas. That included offices, club house, pool, storm water areas (which are often set aside as parks), etc. It included residents of the community, guests, independent contractors, and employees of the association. Or so they thought.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier is warning a Port St. Lucie homeowners’ association that its ban on firearms in common areas violates state law and could trigger legal action.

In a formal letter sent on Thursday to the Tradition Community Association, Inc., Uthmeier said the association’s policy prohibiting firearms in shared spaces conflicts with Florida statutes protecting the right to keep and bear arms.

Ouch. That is going to piss off the Karens who came up with this policy. It will impact them for 2 reasons.

1. They cannot forbid guns from the community, and they are scared of guns
2. They are not the Law

To be a fly-on-the-wall for the next board of directors meeting...

Here is the statement that Attorney General Uthmeier made on X:

Tradition Community Association, Inc. is on notice:

Enforcement of its discriminatory policy against anyone for exercising the constitutional right to keep and bear arms will be met with legal action by my office. pic.twitter.com/1j4hjeoeUf

— Attorney General James Uthmeier (@AGJamesUthmeier) May 21, 2026

Liberty Doll also has a video on this topic: HOA Bans Guns, AG Threatens Legal Action

For the record, I consider HOAs to the evil. I lived under one for 7 months in Florida. It took me an extra few weeks to sell the condo. When I bought my current house, I researched to deed back to the 1840s, when the US military was first surveying this part of the country, to make sure that there were no covenants or restrictions. There are not.

I tend to agree with The Fat Electrician when it comes to HOAs:

Unfortunately this gentleman lived in an HOA, a homeowners association, which if you don't know is basically diet communism. It's where a bunch of people build some nice houses, then they get together and they're like:

Hey we got all these nice houses; you know what we need? More government! We've got federal, state, county, municipal... it's not enough. We need even more rules. We should come together, designate a tribunal of Elder Karens to make all the important decisions for us.

You can watch/listen to the Fat Electrician's video on WW2 Veteran, and Medal of Honor recipient, if you like. It is classic Fat Electrician. WWII history, and an HOA that gets an epic beat down. It is just over 11 minutes.