Florida’s Open Carry Gun Ban Struck Down by State Court

The appeals court said the 1987 state law made Florida ‘an outlier’ among the states.

A Sig Sauer P320 handgun is shown at a gun store in Delray Beach, Fla., on Jan. 31, 2023. Raedle/Getty Images

A Florida appeals court on Sept. 10 unanimously struck down the state’s law banning the open carry of firearms.

The ruling by the state’s First District Court of Appeal reversed the conviction of Stanley Victor McDaniels. He was found guilty under a 1987 state law that makes it “unlawful for any person to openly carry on or about his or her person any firearm or electric weapon or device.”