Publix backtracks on open carry after allowing guns in Florida stores

Publix backtracks on open carry after allowing guns in Florida stores

Publix has quietly made changes to a policy that allowed customers to openly carry guns inside its Florida grocery stores. The Florida-based chain, which operates more than 1,400 locations across the Southeast, now says on its website it “kindly asks that only law enforcement openly carry firearms in our stores.” The change comes months after Publix said it would permit open carry in its hundreds of locations across the Sunshine State after a st…