Tag: open carry

Change.org petition urges Publix to ban guns inside Florida stores

A petition on Change.org is calling on the Lakeland-based Publix Super Markets grocery chain to reverse its decision…

Florida open-carry gun ruling leads to chaos and confusion

Gun control advocates have likened Florida to the wild west after the state’s attorney general endorsed an appeals…

Walking tall in Florida, the Gunshine State

James Uthmeier, the appointed attorney general, who picks and chooses which laws to defend, declared Monday that Florida…

Open carry is now legal in Florida. How many other states allow open or concealed carry?

A decade after the Florida Supreme Court upheld the state's ban on open carry in 2015, open carry is now…

Florida attorney general says cops should stop enforcing open carry gun ban after court ruling

Florida’s Republican attorney general has told police and prosecutors to stop enforcing the state's decades-old ban on carrying…

Open carry is ‘the law of the state,’ Florida attorney general says in new guidance

TALLAHASSEE — Florida’s attorney general is telling law enforcement that open carry of firearms is “the law of…

Open carry of guns not yet legal in Florida despite court ruling, Pinellas sheriff warns

Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri warned Friday that openly carrying firearms is not yet legal in Florida despite…