TALLAHASSEE — A Southeast Florida sheriff and a state attorney are trying to scuttle a challenge to the constitutionality of a Florida law that bars people from openly carrying guns.
St. Lucie County Sheriff Richard Del Toro and 19th Judicial Circuit State Attorney Thomas Bakkedahl on Friday asked a federal judge to side with them in a lawsuit filed last year by Gun Owners of America, the Gun Owners Foundation and Palm Beach County resident Richard Hughes.
In a 21-page motion for summary judgment, the sheriff and prosecutor, who are defendants in the case, argued that the law preventing open carrying of guns does not violate Second Amendment rights. Florida allows people to carry concealed weapons…