A Florida activist group is using an unusual angle to persuade a federal court to keep a strict immigration law blocked: Attorney General James Uthmeier’s argument on open carry of guns. “Yet here — unlike in the [open-carry case] — Attorney General Uthmeier contests that commonsense conclusion,” Wofsy continued. Court strikes down Florida’s open carry banLast week, the Florida 1st District Court of Appeal struck down a 1987 Florida law banning the open carry of firearms. And because no other appellate court had considered the open carry ban since the 2022 ruling, the DCA’s finding was final. Along with Illinois, California, and New York, Florida was just one of four states that had explicitly outlawed open carry.