Newsmax: Publix, one of Florida’s largest grocery chains, now allows customers to openly carry guns in its stores after a recent state court ruling.
Florida’s open-carry restrictions were lifted on Sept. 25 after the 1st District Court of Appeal struck down the state’s long-standing ban, ruling it unconstitutional.
The decision allows adults to openly carry guns in public while giving private businesses the option to prohibit open carry on their property.
Publix, which operates more than 900 stores in Florida, has chosen to allow open carry, according to employees contacted by news outlets including the South Florida Sun Sentinel.
Calls to stores in South and Central Florida confirmed that customers are being told they may openly carry guns inside, consistent with the new law. more
Publix is much loved and admired down here, and not just by Florida Man, so this is a fairly big deal. Our lib local daily fish wrapper has run multiple stories pretending that Publix’s decision is somehow controversial when it isn’t at all, at least here in bright red Sarasota County.
The Kielbasa Kid would feel right at home there!
https://www.bigchuckandliljohn.com/kielbasakid.jpg
(Itz a Cleveburg thing…)
https://www.bigchuckandliljohn.com/chuck.html
“Calls to stores in South and Central Florida confirmed that customers are being told they may openly carry guns inside, consistent with the new law.”
…but what about their EMPLOYEES?
THAT would put a stop to the next Wal-Mart knifing in a big hurry…
https://iotwreport.com/surveillance-video-shows-man-stabbing-innocent-shoppers-at-a-michigan-walmart/
I shopped at Publix back in the 70’s when they gave out S&H Green Stamps.
Publix is the highest employer in Florida