Comments on: How a Florida Man Side-Stepped an Intransigent Legislature to Finally Make Open Carry a Reality in the Sunshine State https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/how-a-florida-man-side-stepped-an-intransigent-legislature-to-make-open-carry-a-reality-in-the-sunshine-state/ Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:31:27 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Sam I Am https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/how-a-florida-man-side-stepped-an-intransigent-legislature-to-make-open-carry-a-reality-in-the-sunshine-state/comment-page-1/#comment-88515 Sat, 20 Sep 2025 21:31:27 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=28715#comment-88515 Temporary condition. Nothing is close to certain, until the SC rules.

“The music plays, and everyone must dance.”

]]> By: RGC https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/how-a-florida-man-side-stepped-an-intransigent-legislature-to-make-open-carry-a-reality-in-the-sunshine-state/comment-page-1/#comment-87556 Fri, 19 Sep 2025 15:11:10 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=28715#comment-87556 I’m generally pro open carry from a purely legalistic standpoint…but…except for a few specific circumstances, it’s idiotic to do so. It unnecessarily intimidates and alarms people (picture yourself in a restaurant with your kids and a guy walks in openly carrying an AR). It sets you up to be the first one shot by a criminal, or knocked over the head from behind and your gun taken. It stigmatizes law abiding pro carry advocates as all being “whack jobs”…and it’s just not necessary. So just keep this in mind as you exercise your “rights”…which also requires “responsibilities”. Flame away.

]]> By: uncommon_sense https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/how-a-florida-man-side-stepped-an-intransigent-legislature-to-make-open-carry-a-reality-in-the-sunshine-state/comment-page-1/#comment-86627 Thu, 18 Sep 2025 01:01:24 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=28715#comment-86627 F.Y.I. Another website (which the operators of this website should know VERY well) has this exact verbiage in one of their articles, and I did not see any attribution. Either someone copied someone or this website and the other website have an agreement to post identical commentary.

]]> By: DinWA https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/how-a-florida-man-side-stepped-an-intransigent-legislature-to-make-open-carry-a-reality-in-the-sunshine-state/comment-page-1/#comment-86192 Wed, 17 Sep 2025 07:51:51 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=28715#comment-86192 Isn’t that MLee attending some get-together in Spokane some years back?

]]> By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this crap" PR https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/how-a-florida-man-side-stepped-an-intransigent-legislature-to-make-open-carry-a-reality-in-the-sunshine-state/comment-page-1/#comment-85961 Tue, 16 Sep 2025 23:26:50 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=28715#comment-85961 In reply to Dad.

It isn’t law yet, until about October 15 or so, so it’s best to coll one’s jets until this is locked down tight.

Oh, and this means long guns as well. I’m thinking about a leather scabbard for my Mossburg Shockwave on my mountain bike…

]]> By: Tec's Dad https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/how-a-florida-man-side-stepped-an-intransigent-legislature-to-make-open-carry-a-reality-in-the-sunshine-state/comment-page-1/#comment-85922 Tue, 16 Sep 2025 22:24:07 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=28715#comment-85922 In reply to BRUCE BOGLE.

TOO true! The governor of CT and his democRat majority took open carry from legal to do to illegal in 2023. The reason! Because open carry scared snowflakes! No shit!
CT voters in the cities are under attack nightly. What do they do? They vote for the people that have basically unarmed them. Were there any issues where legally owned open carrieres were arrested for mahem or unruliness? Nope. Fucking liberal(commie) snowflakes were afraid at rallies. The former Constitution state is lost

]]> By: BRUCE BOGLE https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/how-a-florida-man-side-stepped-an-intransigent-legislature-to-make-open-carry-a-reality-in-the-sunshine-state/comment-page-1/#comment-85869 Tue, 16 Sep 2025 20:35:04 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=28715#comment-85869 “Only California, Connecticut and Illinois still bar their citizens from openly carrying arms.” you can NY and NJ to that list.

]]> By: Chris T in KY https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/how-a-florida-man-side-stepped-an-intransigent-legislature-to-make-open-carry-a-reality-in-the-sunshine-state/comment-page-1/#comment-85783 Tue, 16 Sep 2025 17:24:37 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=28715#comment-85783 This is why you should have more support for your state civil rights group. Than a national group.

Where you live should be first. Your state should be first. The 10th amendment. States rights.

]]> By: Carson Knapp https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/how-a-florida-man-side-stepped-an-intransigent-legislature-to-make-open-carry-a-reality-in-the-sunshine-state/comment-page-1/#comment-85762 Tue, 16 Sep 2025 16:44:07 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=28715#comment-85762 Very readable and informative. Saved this for future reference.

]]> By: Dad https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/how-a-florida-man-side-stepped-an-intransigent-legislature-to-make-open-carry-a-reality-in-the-sunshine-state/comment-page-1/#comment-85723 Tue, 16 Sep 2025 15:20:49 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=28715#comment-85723 First good “Florida Man” story that didn’t involve criminal charges or a hospitalization.

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