'Now an open carry state': Court strikes down Florida's open carry ban
Source: WESH 2 News
TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
A state appeals court on Wednesday in a major decision ruled Floridas ban on openly carrying guns is unconstitutional.
A three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal, pointing to U.S. Supreme Court rulings on Second Amendment issues, said the open-carry ban is incompatible with the nations historical tradition of firearm regulation.
The state's Attorney General said his office "fully supports the Courts decision."
He went on to say. "This is a big win for the Second Amendment rights of Floridians. As weve all witnessed over the last few days, our God-given right to self-defense is indispensable."
Read more: https://www.wesh.com/article/court-strikes-down-florida-open-carry-ban/66040070?utm_campaign=snd-autopilot
This may be a final ruling. It won't go to the Florida Supreme Court without the AG pushing it and since DeSantis says he strongly supports open carry it is unlikely.
Now Florida will be like the Wild West with everybody and little brown dog walking around with a six iron on their hip or more likely an AR-15 slung across their shoulder. Our foreign tourists will love it, won't they?

sarisataka
(21,999 posts)That allow open carry.
I live in one of them and it has been two years since I have seen someone carrying a gun, outside of hunting season
groundloop
(13,269 posts)I got the hell out of there and called the police. How the hell am I supposed to know if some scruffy looking dude with a rifle is a good guy or a bad guy?
sarisataka
(21,999 posts)The last ones I saw were a man and woman openly carrying while grocery shopping.
I am not a fan of the practice but it does not disturb me. I figure if the person had ill intent they would just do it, not shop while revealing they are armed.
markodochartaigh
(4,001 posts)wolfie001
(6,119 posts)I think it's the way the artist drew his bored expression with the whole process.
Karasu
(2,003 posts)country is insane, so...
GoodRaisin
(10,510 posts)PCB66
(44 posts)Texas is a notorious open carry state. The only time we saw anybody open carry was when we stopped to get gas in West Texas. Ranching area. Guy drives up in his Ford F150 with a pistol strapped to his side.
To me that is legit. He probably needed it for rattlers or whatever.
Just think of how many "Florida Man" types will abuse it.
James48
(4,939 posts)Lots if folks open carry here. Mostly in the suburbs and Trump communities.
Torchlight
(5,679 posts)groundloop
(13,269 posts)Most towns in the 'wild west' required you to leave your gun with the sheriff when you entered town (i.e. 'gun control'). Imagine the outcry if that were attempted today.
We're fast becoming a lawless banana republic where the profits of the gun industry are more important than peoples (and especially children's) lives, all because of an improper interpretation of some words on a piece of paper - everyone ignores the "well regulated militia" part.
Scruffy1
(3,465 posts)All the Clarence thomas "historical" stuff is nonsense, like everything the Suptremes do.
Nictuku
(4,358 posts)Torchlight
(5,679 posts)is how I read it.
johnnyfins
(2,889 posts)be strapped now?
johnnyfins
(2,889 posts)kimbutgar
(26,001 posts)Florida will never be a destination for me even if Im booked on a cruise leaving its port. Im glad I went to Florida before it became so insane.
Grins
(8,831 posts)Old Crank
(6,213 posts)To be a REQUIRED CARRY state?
Deuxcents
(23,981 posts)Now..were gonna be a permitless concealed carry and open carry state. The only thing I can hope for are appeals but Im not counting on it. The last six years have been totally wacked
PCB66
(44 posts)Of course he is a DeSantis man.
Ford_Prefect
(8,439 posts)grocery stores, and Quick Marts (convenient corner locations for drive-in idiots to practice 9mm mayhem).
The arms and ammunition industries will blossom with new offerings to meet the demand.
JoseBalow
(8,392 posts)
PCB66
(44 posts)...have traditionally been the ones to lobby the Legislature to not pass an open carry law.
With the Legislature being super Republican majority in Florida you have expected to have open carry a long time ago but it never happen. Most of the time never making it out of Committee.
Oeditpus Rex
(42,716 posts)Particularly if the carrier was Black.
Now what do they do?
NickB79
(20,104 posts)Carrying a gun in plain sight means you're gonna be the first one to be shot when shit goes down, because you're the most obvious threat to the shooter's plans.
Of course, most guys who open carry aren't doing it for self defense, but for intimidation.
maxsolomon
(37,349 posts)Anywhere, anytime, any gun.
Got Hilf Uns.
in MO and we have had open carry for a few years now, but I have only seen one person, at cvs of all places, with a small gun in holster.
tavernier
(13,933 posts)In a Big Lots. Big fat guy with draggy jeans shopping with his elderly mother. He looked like a class A goofball. For the life of me, I dont know why any man would want to make himself look foolish like that. Im a 78 year-old woman and I am not afraid to go downtown without a gun in my purse or hanging from my belt. Yeah, he was a real gunslinger.
Talitha
(7,589 posts)
not fooled
(6,464 posts)This was a few years ago in yuma az, the dingy armpit of the desert southwest. Mennonites had a candy store open during the winter (habitable) months. I gave in to temptation and went in to buy some fudge. The only people in the store were the Mennonite proprietors, a couple elderly customers, and me.
And as I was checking out, next to me a skinny young white dude with his missus (carrying a baby) and a gun strapped to his waistband. I did a double take, thought about saying something sarcastic to him, thought better of it, and got out ASAP. That's what I get for buying candy.
Oh, yeah candy store patrons are a real threat.
twodogsbarking
(15,723 posts)sop
(16,010 posts)Justice Brandeis
(287 posts)What could possibly go wrong?
Skittles
(167,376 posts)whatever
PCB66
(44 posts)God bless Florida! What could possibly happen?
bluestarone
(20,282 posts)Assault rifles, if they choose to?
...I seen a person with a gun in or around a store or business I would leave immediately and never shop or do business there again...
...a person around me openly carrying a gun is a major potential threat to me that I don't need to put up with...
...concealed, I wouldn't know unless I spotted something and then I'd do the same...
...businesses that cater to endangering me and my family's life and wellbeing is a no-go...I'll carry most or all of my business to the internet if I have to...
...to quote Groucho, "...outside of the improvement you'd never know the difference."
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