Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeals just ruled that Florida’s open carry ban is no longer constitutionally enforceable statewide.
Law Enforcement Agencies Ordered to STOP Enforcing Florida’s ‘Open Carry’ Ban by State Attorney General James Uthmeier
Attorney General James Uthmeier – 12:35 PM · Sep 10, 2025 . . .
Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeals just ruled that Florida’s open carry ban is no longer constitutionally enforceable statewide. Our office fully supports the Court’s decision.
This is a big win for the Second Amendment rights of Floridians.
As we’ve all witnessed over the last few days, our God-given right to self-defense is indispensable.
Post-ruling, many law enforcement agencies have stopped enforcing Florida open-carry ban
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.
In a video message posted on X Wednesday night, Sheriff Ivey, a longtime advocate for the Legislature to pass an open-carry law, said that he had informed his deputies of the policy shift. The statute at issue (790.053) makes it “unlawful for any person to openly carry on or about his or her person any firearm or electric weapon or device.”
Not all law enforcement agencies are dropping enforcement — at least not yet.
For the full article, go to: https://floridaphoenix.com/2025/09/11/post-ruling-many-law-enforcement-agencies-have-stopped-enforcing-florida-open-carry-ban
Florida’s open carry ban for guns ruled unconstitutional.
Two days after Gov. Ron DeSantis once again called on legislators to allow people to openly carry guns in Florida, a state appeals court ruled that the state’s ban on open carry is unconstitutional.
In a major decision, a three-judge panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal said the open-carry ban is incompatible with the nation’s “historical tradition of firearm regulation.” It cited U.S. Supreme Court rulings on Second Amendment issues.
“History confirms that the right to bear arms in public necessarily includes the right to do so openly,” Judge Stephanie Ray wrote in a 20-page opinion joined by Judges Lori Rowe and M. Kemmerly Thomas. “That is not to say that open carry is absolute or immune from reasonable regulation. But what the state may not do is extinguish the right altogether for ordinary, law-abiding, adult citizens.”
Read the complete article here . . . https://www.tallahassee.com/story/news/2025/09/10/florida-open-carry-ban-guns-ruled-unconstitutional-appeals-court/86076269007/