Comments on: Free speech roundup https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/10/free-speech-roundup-21/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:10:35 +0000 hourly 1 By: FL Girl https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/10/free-speech-roundup-21/comment-page-1/#comment-239795 Fri, 04 Oct 2013 13:10:35 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=41532#comment-239795 “… the wife of the other man in the truck with Jones said that both Jones and her husband had current open carry permits from the State of Florida”

As a Florida CCL holder, I’d like to point out that there is no such thing as an “open carry permit” in the State of Florida. This is covered under Florida Statute FS 790.053.

There are exceptions to the statute. It is legal to open carry when hunting, fishing, trapping, and while at work. This is covered under FS 790.25(3)(h), (j) and (k). “Anyone, while fishing, camping, or hunting….or while going to, or coming from fishing, camping, or hunting is exempt from the prohibition on open carry.”

But again, there is no such animal as an “open carry permit” here.

]]> By: gitarcarver https://www.overlawyered.com/2013/10/free-speech-roundup-21/comment-page-1/#comment-239770 Thu, 03 Oct 2013 23:53:59 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/?p=41532#comment-239770 The post on Terry Jones is a little dated but at the time, the wife of the other man in the truck with Jones said that both Jones and her husband had current open carry permits from the State of Florida. She also said that the truck in which the kerosine was improperly stored and pulling the trailer with the grill full of kerosine soaked Korans belonged to her husband who was driving.

I couldn’t find anything in the Florida statutes that allowed for the arrest of the passenger of the vehicle to be charged with the “improper fuel container” charge, but I fully admit I could have missed it.

Something doesn’t add up here.

(And frankly, given the circumstances surrounding the vehicle stop, I am not willing to rule out that Jones and his followers aren’t being truthful and set the whole arrest thing up for publicity.)

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