Photo by Stephen Andrews

On September 10, Florida’s 1st District Court of Appeal looked at the state’s law against “open carry” of firearms, looked at the US Constitution’s 2nd Amendment, and noticed that the latter supersedes the former.

Five days later, Florida Attorney General James Uthmier issued “guidance to Florida’s prosecutors and law enforcement,” notifying them that “as of last week, open carry is the law of the state.”

Well, not “as of last week,” actually. Try “as of 1845,” the year Florida became a state. Per Madison v. Marbury, “an act of the legislature, repugnant to the constitution, is........

© CounterPunch