Gov. Ron DeSantis has no time for those who say open carry in the state of Florida will affect public safety.

“When you say that the sky’s going to fall if you have open carry, well, I can look at 40-plus other states that have it, and I haven’t seen the sky fall. We already have under statute permitless concealed carry, constitutional carry,” DeSantis said in Miami at Florida International University’s Tamiami Hall .

Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal ruled this month the state’s open carry ban (Florida Statutes 790.053) was unconstitutional. That brought an end to the yearly push for open carry to become the law of the state after the Legislature repeatedly resisted efforts to change the law previously. Soon after the ruling, Attorney General James Uthmeier sai

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