Florida’s new open carry law combines with ‘stand your ground’ to create new freedoms – and new dangers
- Written by Caroline Light, Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University
As of September 2025, Florida allows open carry and permitless carry, in addition to its stand your ground law.Joe Raedle/Getty Images NewsTwenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first “stand your ground” law, calling it a “good, common-sense, anti-crime issue.”
The law’s creators promised it would protect...