Open carry of a firearm is now legal in the state of Florida.

Starting Thursday, open carry is now permitted in most public places, with a few exceptions.

This comes two weeks after a Florida appeals court declared unconstitutional a state law banning the open carrying of firearms, calling the law incompatible with the Second Amendment right to bear arms.

“No historical tradition supports Florida’s Open Carry Ban. To the contrary, history confirms that the right to bear arms in public necessarily includes the right to do so openly,” Judge Stephanie Ray wrote in an opinion, joined by Judges Lori Rowe and M. Kemmerly Thomas.

The Jacksonville Sheriff’s Office, Clay County Sheriff’s Office, Bradford County Sheriff’s Office, St. Johns County Sheriff’s Office, and Columbia County Sheriff’s O

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