“Right now (after the appeals-court ruling on open carry), in a number of places, the prohibited places don’t technically apply,” Sean Caranna, executive director of the gun-rights group Florida Carry Inc., told The News Service of Florida on Friday. Making a fix in state law during the session could be a heavy lift. “Now open carry is a constitutional, important right that people can exercise, so I'll leave it there,” the attorney general told reporters during an event in Winter Haven. Because open carry does not mean all the time, everywhere. … It’s kind of a hot mess, and it makes us less safe.”aces statute does not expressly prohibit the open carrying of long guns in prohibited places,” he added.