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A Florida appeals court ruled the state's long-standing ban on openly carrying guns is unconstitutional.

Florida's Attorney General has advised law enforcement to stop enforcing the open-carry ban.

The ruling was based on recent U.S. Supreme Court decisions regarding the Second Amendment.

Restrictions on carrying firearms in sensitive locations like schools and courthouses remain in effect.

Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier on Sept. 15 said people being able to openly carry guns is “the law of the state ,” after a panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal recently ruled that a longstanding ban was unconstitutional.

Uthmeier sent guidance to prosecutors and law-enforcement agencies. Some had already stopped enforcing the open-carry ban after the Sept. 1

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