Private businesses, including grocery stores, can still set their own policies regarding firearms on their property. Publix has indicated it will allow open carry, while chains like Winn-Dixie, Aldi, ...

Shoppers are split after supermarket chain Publix announced it will now allow customers to openly carry firearms inside its Florida stores. The decision comes about two weeks after an appeals court ...

Twenty years ago, Florida Gov. Jeb Bush signed the first "stand your ground" law, calling it a "good, common-sense, anti-crime issue." The law's creators promised it would protect law-abiding citizens ...

Now that open carry is legal in Florida, gun owners will still need to pay attention to where they are. And that includes shopping. Many malls have existing no-weapons policies. Aventura Mall, for ...

This article is republished from The Conversation, an independent and nonprofit source of news, analysis and commentary from academic experts. Caroline Light is Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, ...

Shoppers are split after supermarket chain Publix announced it will now allow customers to openly carry firearms inside its Florida stores. The decision comes about two weeks after an appeals court ...

Senior Lecturer on Studies of Women, Gender, and Sexuality, Harvard University I’m a historian who has studied the roots of stand your ground laws. I published a book on the subject in 2017. My ...