Beachside Florida City Can’t Zone-Out Gun Sales, Court Rules

A Florida appeals court on Wednesday ordered a harder look at whether the City of Dania Beach’s ordinances unlawfully discriminate against firearm rights by prohibiting gun sales in the city center.

A trial court must further scrutinize claims from a gun retailer and Second Amendment rights group claiming that a city ordinance violates a state law prohibiting firearm regulation through other means. On remand the judge must determine whether zoning restrictions on retail businesses, including firearms dealers, from the city center violate Florida’s gun-business-protection statute, the Fourth District Court of Appeal ruled.

Even if “ordinances treat both firearms businesses ...