Florida Open Carry Court Judgment
BY Herschel Smith
3 months ago
Yet again someone has had to file an open carry bill for Florida.
A Labor Day weekend glass bottle attack of two Pennsylvania students wearing yarmulkes has prompted Rep. Randy Fine, R-Brevard, to renew his pledge to file legislation to repeal Florida’s “gun-free zone” for state college and university campuses.
Fine’s pledge comes in the wake of gun activists filing a federal lawsuit in South Florida to have Florida’s open-carry ban declared unconstitutional, and after Gov. Ron DeSantis and the Republican Legislature earlier this year eliminated a requirement for a concealed weapon permit to carry firearms in public.
Gunowners of America, which filed the lawsuit, said this year’s changes in Florida gun regulations did not go far enough and criticized DeSantis for not pushing for further expansion of Second Amendment rights.
Fine has stepped into the middle of the standoff between Second Amendment activists and Republican lawmakers.
GOA Florida Director Louis Valdes said open carry and campus carry top the group’s agenda for the 2025 legislative session.
But there is more. Here is a court complaint on open carry, and here is the default judgment after there was no response by the state.
But somehow with the awful controllers there in Florida, I don’t think we’ve seen the end of this. I know what they’re thinking. They worry about their tourism income, but so did South Carolina (in the beach area) and yet they have seen no change whatsoever and no vapid, panicked phone calls to the police about a man carrying a gun.
We’ll see where this all goes. I will follow Florida open carry just like I always have. It’s one of the few states left with laws against open carry, and both the state legislature and Ron Desantis should be ashamed of themselves.
On September 20, 2024 at 8:51 am, I R A Darth Aggie said:
It’s the Sheriff’s Association* that has had, and been having, and continues to have conniption fits over OC and been the excuse the Senate or House leader* uses to spike any such legislation.
* they need better leadership
On September 21, 2024 at 10:41 pm, luke2236 said:
Notice that (((fine))) only reacts to a couple of his antiChrist brethren’s attack and gives not a singular damn about all the other crime, especially when directed at White people.