Publix supermarket facts and discussion about new open-carry guns policy

[carpetbagger]

6. Open carry is brandishing.

There is probably a residual and narrow legal definition of brandishing that is outside permissible display under open carry. However, carrying a gun in plain sight into a supermarket is intended to be a showy threat end of story. It just happens to be legal now.

As to your questions, former Floridian with an elderly parent there, so I'm around frequently and am quite aware of the policy. I dislike Publix from CIW days but end up shopping there for my mother. She hates the policy but still shops there. And that's my sense, Publix essentially has a monopoly on traditional supermarkets on the white side of the tracks in Peninsular Florida. I sense they're leading rather than following here, as there's no major competitor to them who allows it. The right-wing tilt of the organization is well-documented and this is just another step.