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Florida Carry has conducted Open Carry Fishing Events throughout the state since 2010. It is well established that open carry while fishing is legal. One of our members was injured and taken to the hospital during this incident. The Miami Beach Police Chief was notified of the event beforehand, per our policy, in an attempt to prevent an incident such as this.

Legal action is pending.

https://www.thegunwriter.com/24294/br...

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https://www.floridacarry.org/index.ph...

Florida law provides for licenses to carry handguns concealed, but prohibits carrying firearms openly. Petitioner, who had such license, was convicted of openly carrying a firearm on a public street. The majority of the Florida Supreme Court upheld the ban under intermediate scrutiny based on conjecture by counsel about why the legislature may have banned open carry.

The issue is whether a prohibition on peaceably and openly carrying a lawfully-owned handgun infringes on “the right of the people to . . . bear arms” protected by the Second Amendment to the United States Constitution. That issue also involves the extent to which a restriction on a constitutional right may be upheld, under a proper standard of review, on the basis of a post hoc argument of counsel with no foundation in the legislative or factual record.