Following a court ruling that struck down Florida's decades-old ban on open carry, the state's attorney general has asked law enforcement and prosecutors to stop enforcing the ban .

The ruling came Sept. 10 in a challenge filed by Stanley Victor McDaniels, who was convicted of openly carrying a gun on the Fourth of July in 2022 in Pensacola. It also came after years of legislative debate about potentially repealing the open-carry ban — a position supported by Gov. Ron DeSantis .

"Meaning that as of last week, open carry is the law of the state," Uthmeier said in a post on X.

Since Uthmeier has declared open carry to be the law of the state, what does that really mean?

Understanding open carry

Open carry means that a person can display a firearm while they are out in public. The f

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