California Right To Carry
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Thanks for the info 77zach and California Right To Carry.
77zach, I think your analysis in post 15 is unfortunately spot on.
If there is a "danger" the danger is that the Florida Supreme Court strikes down the Open Carry ban as a violation of its state constitution and ducks the Second Amendment question.
If the court holds that the Open Carry ban does not violate its state constitution then it will have to decide whether or not the Open Carry ban violates the Second Amendment. If it holds that it does not then you have a split with the 7th Circuit and the Illinois Supreme Court. If the court holds that there is a right to carry a handgun concealed in public then you have a split with the California Supreme Court. The more splits there are with Federal circuits and state supreme courts (SCOTUS Rule 10) the more likely it is that SCOTUS will grant Norman's cert petition.
People should hold off on predicting the end of the world until SCOTUS starts rejecting cases which involve a clear split under SCOTUS Rule 10 and even that won't be definitive. Before Heller came along, there was a Rule 10 split between the 9th Circuit and the 5th Circuit courts of appeal and SCOTUS denied cert. When Heller prevailed in the court of appeals the split widened and SCOTUS granted cert.