For the first time in nearly four decades, Floridians can legally carry firearms in plain sight. On September 10, a three-judge panel of the First District Court of Appeal struck down Florida’s 1987 ...

The Florida appeals court ruling that struck down the state’s 40-year ban on open carry has thrown the state into a period of uncertainty and confusion. As a veteran detective who has spent nearly two ...

Following a court ruling that struck down Florida's decades-old ban on open carry, the state's attorney general has asked law enforcement and prosecutors to stop enforcing the ban. The ruling came ...

TALLAHASSEE — For nearly 40 years, Florida has had a ban on the open carry of firearms that was signed into law by a Republican governor and defended by a Republican-controlled Legislature against the ...

Stand your ground laws have not made communities any safer, nor prevented crime. There is reliable evidence they have done just the opposite.

A Florida appeals court found the state's open carry ban unconstitutional, and law enforcement officials on the Treasure Coast and Palm Beach County are addressing the change.Officials will no longer ...

The ruling overturned a 38-year-old ban, citing a U.S. Supreme Court decision. Florida's Attorney General has issued guidance making the ruling effective statewide. Restrictions on carrying firearms ...

FLORIDA, USA — Florida is now the latest state to have an open carry gun law. As of Thursday, Sept. 25, the Sunshine State's previous open carry ban was lifted after an appeals court declared it ...