Florida is officially an open carry state.

That’s according to Attorney General James Uthmeier, who said that a recent decision by the First District Court of Appeals that deemed the open-carry ban unconstitutional and incompatible with the Second Amendment is binding on all Florida’s trial courts.

“In McDaniels v. State, the First District Court of Appeal struck down Florida’s ban on open carry, finding that ‘law-abiding, adult citizens’ have a right to carry ‘firearm[s] openly in public’ under the Second Amendment...the First District’s decision is binding on all Florida’s trial courts," a letter posted to X by Uthmeier read, in part.

Uthmeier’s announcement comes a few days after multiple law enforcement agencies in Northeast Florida have said their deputies have been instructed not

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