Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody declined to represent a state prosecutor and county sheriff being sued by a gun rights group over the state’s ban on open-carrying firearms. 

Gun Owners of America and a Palm Beach County gun owner filed the federal lawsuit in August against St. Lucie County Sheriff Keith Pearson and State Attorney Thomas Bakkedahl on the basis that the state’s ban on open carry infringed upon Florida’s Second and 14th Amendment rights.