Open Carry

An open carry billed filed for consideration during the 2025 Legislative Session would allow Floridians to openly carry firearms, and it would repeal a “red-flag” law passed after the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland that allows authorities to take guns from people found to pose a “significant danger” to themselves or others.

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

The Florida House has passed a bill that would allow people to carry concealed guns without a permit, but it wouldn't allow them to openly carry firearms.

Democratic lawmakers say the bill would eliminate the firearms-training requirement. Pinellas County Sheriff Bob Gualtieri calls current training requirements tied to the licensing process “meaningless.”

Lakeland-based Publix, which has a large presence on the First Coast, is the latest major business to request that its customers not openly carry guns.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday refused to take up a challenge to a Florida law that bars people from openly carrying firearms in public, ending a case...

A divided Florida Supreme Court said Thursday it will not reconsider a March ruling that upheld a longstanding state ban on people openly carrying...

Dozens of gun measures are likely dead this year in the legislature. A key Republican Senator says she won’t support measures like campus carry or guns...

Rejecting arguments by Second Amendment supporters, the Florida Supreme Court on Thursday upheld a longstanding state ban on people openly carrying...