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2014-12-15 -Land of the Free

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Posted by Besoeker 2014-12-15 00:00|| || Front Page|| [11127 views ] Top

#1 Open carry sends a message to those around you. Open carry might be a deterrent to thugs. On the other hand, they might target you first if they know you are carrying. Concealed carry should not slow you down if properly concealed/carried. I prefer concealed carry; let the thugs guess about who might be armed and a threat.

Posted by JohnQC 2014-12-15 07:20|| 2014-12-15 07:20|| Front Page Top

#2 A mix of both can't be too bad.

I think rules for police should = rules for everyone else.

after all, if you're not following this principle

"To maintain at all times a relationship with the public that gives reality to the historic tradition that the police are the public and that the public are the police, the police being only members of the public who are paid to give full-time attention to duties which are incumbent on every citizen in the interests of community welfare and existence."

they're not police, they're more of a securitate.

Posted by Bright Pebbles 2014-12-15 10:49|| 2014-12-15 10:49|| Front Page Top

#3 In cutaway holsters with pearl handles?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-15 14:11|| 2014-12-15 14:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Full open carry and concealed carry here in AZ. No permit required. And to the horrors of the left, Anarchy did not prevail. Not mass baby killings, no tea party riots, nothing, just the thugs now thinking twice before committing a crime.

Posted by 49 Pan 2014-12-15 14:30|| 2014-12-15 14:30|| Front Page Top

#5 Open carry is legal here in Virginia. I don't know the requirements for it, other than the requirements for buying the gun.

On the other hand, in VA, a veteran can get a concealed carry permit without any training - just submit your DD214 along with the other paperwork and you're good to go.

Since in my case, my weapons training was over 40 years ago, and I haven't fired any weapon for 10 years, I plan to take a course before I get my permit.

Posted by Rambler in Virginia 2014-12-15 14:45|| 2014-12-15 14:45|| Front Page Top

#6 ROE are still the same for a weapon of any type, gun (concealed or open), chair or spoon.
Reactive self-defense,
reasonable perceived lethality,
force equivalency.

Posted by Skidmark 2014-12-15 15:16|| 2014-12-15 15:16|| Front Page Top

#7 Concealed carry is better for those carrying, doesn't make you a priority target. Open carry is better for those NOT carrying or criminal who are carrying, keeps them aware that there are armed people in their midst.

Posted by OldSpook 2014-12-15 16:13|| 2014-12-15 16:13|| Front Page Top

#8 Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-12-15 17:38|| 2014-12-15 17:38|| Front Page Top

#9 Tut tut, my good man. While pearl grips may look out of place on those plastic poodle-shooters so often favored in this lamentable age, on a vintage firearm they can add a touch of elegance and style.

Posted by SteveS 2014-12-15 18:03|| 2014-12-15 18:03|| Front Page Top

#10 Only a pimp from a cheap New Orleans whorehouse would carry a pearl-handled pistol.

John Wesley Hardin?

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2014-12-15 18:16|| 2014-12-15 18:16|| Front Page Top

#11 Most Virginia cops are pretty laid-back about guns if you don't do something to make them feel threatened. I drove into Capitol Square with my gun stowed in my open glove compartment (keeps it from slipping across the seat), stopped at the guard house to tell them where I needed to go and find out where to park, and the Capitol cop didn't bat an eyelash.

I think you can even carry concealed into the Capitol if you have a permit (though with the idiot leftist governor we have right now, that may no longer be true). The cops know those of us with permits aren't the ones to worry about.

Posted by Barbara 2014-12-15 18:20|| 2014-12-15 18:20|| Front Page Top

#12 George C. Scott as Patton; can't find the clip. Fine craftsmanship should be admired.

Open carry in Kansas, other than into schools, gov buildings, and businesses marked otherwise like banks. It is interesting listening to Dodge City passer-throughs lament that not everyone is slinging.

We had something interesting happen a couple years back, I asked a deputy the rules transporting a firearm from vehicle to business without violating any concealed firearm laws. He said, "Just open carry it in."

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-12-15 18:43|| 2014-12-15 18:43|| Front Page Top

#13 There was a bill in the Kansas Congress proposing that any government property which could not be reasonably secured would allow the carrying of a firearm. The University of Kansas (Berkely-on-Kaw) shit a porcupine and IIUC tied up the bill in court.

Posted by swksvolFF 2014-12-15 19:19|| 2014-12-15 19:19|| Front Page Top

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