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.”
Judge Stephanie Ray said in the court’s opinion that Florida is “an outlier” that, along with Illinois, Connecticut, and California, generally forbids the open carrying of guns.
McDaniels argued that the open carry ban violated the Second Amendment’s guarantee of the right to bear arms, the judge said….