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Let me state at the outset that I am NOT an attorney. That said, I am a retired CLEO, and I was so employed at the time of the adoption of the '87 law.
The very topic at hand, carriage of a BP handgun, defined as a weapon and not a firearm was discussed at length at one conference. It was clearly understood that antiques, as defined statutorily, were NOT firearms by definition and that they could be borne just as knives and other openly carried weapons were.
That said, since the OC ban in Florida came into being, I have little doubt that anyone so doing WILL experience no end of difficulty, in truth you would in all probability beat the charge but you will experience the 'ride'.
I would counsel forgoing the issue unless you just want to be a test case, and those sorts of things aren't fun.
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