The presence of officers armed with long guns in Sarasota City Hall meetings is just one of the changes of the overturned ...

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 appeals court ruled the state’s ban on openly carrying weapons in public was unconstitutional, but some question whether it properly interpreted past U.S. Supreme Court decisions.

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 ...

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 ...

OSCEOLA COUNTY, Fla. – Florida is changing the way guns are carried in public — starting Sept. 25, people can openly carry firearms in many places across the state. This shift comes after Florida’s ...

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 ...

GAINESVILLE, Fla. – 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, 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 ...

The U.S. Supreme Court agreed on Oct. 3 to hear a challenge to gun restrictions in Hawaii that could allow people to bring a handgun onto private property open to the public without the property owner ...

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — 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 ...