Open Carry

Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first “stand your ground” law, calling it a “good, common-sense, anti-crime issue.” A historian makes a case as to why this police, open carry and permitless carry raises security concerns in Florida.

As of September 2025, Florida allows open carry and permitless carry, in addition to its 'stand your ground' law. A historian looks at how likely this law is to keep the state safe.

Democrats in Florida’s Legislature have filed more than a dozen gun control bills less than two months after the “Gunshine State” legalized open carry.

A Broward County circuit judge has ruled that a state law barring people under age 21 from carrying concealed weapons violates Second Amendment rights.

The man at the center of a landmark court decision allowing people in Florida to openly carry guns is watching the consequences of his legal fight from inside a jail cell in Florida's Panhandle.

He said Monday that people being able to openly carry guns is “the law of the state,” after a panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal last week ruled that a longstanding ban was unconstitutional.

Following Wedneday’s decision by the Florida First District Court of Appeal striking the state’s ban on openly carrying firearms, Brevard County Sheriff Wayne Ivey says his deputies will no longer enforce the ban – even though the law hasn’t changed yet.

A Florida appeals court on Wednesday declared unconstitutional a state law banning the open carrying of firearms, calling the law incompatible with the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

Gov. Ron DeSantis made the statement during a news conference in Plant City to mark the start of sales tax exemptions through the end of the year on hunting, fishing and camping equipment.

Florida gun owners are speculating whether 2025 will be the year the state finally passes a law that allows open carry.

Second Amendment groups and a Palm Beach County gun owner Tuesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging the constitutionality of a Florida law that bars people from openly carrying firearms.

A strongly divided Florida Supreme Court upheld Florida’s ban on openly carrying firearms.