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Carry unconcealed?

PennyPincher
So if you have a permit to carry concealed can you carry unconcealed/open?

Would you?

I think it would cut down on crime.

[:D]
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  • Mr. Gunz
    most places (pro gun places), you can carry open without a permit once your turn 18 or 21
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  • Rack Ops
    It may cut down on crime.....but would also increase the amount of times I get hassled (or arrested) by the cops


    I seem to remember a few weeks ago there was a post on here describing how a young man was arrested for having a rifle (unloaded) slung on his shoulders as he walked down the street.

    What amazed me were the number of "pro-gun" members who saw the arrest and subsequent confiscation of the gun as justifiable.
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  • Isurelkegns
    Down here they stress to you when they give you your permit that concealed means just that and that weapon must be concealed in your vehicle or on your person.Now you can ride down the rode with a Shotgun Or A Rifle of any sort in your back window but handguns and that permit must be concealed.
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  • David Nunn
    Texas law requires that handguns carried under authority of a CHL be concealed. It also requires that handguns carried in a vehicle, with or without a CHL, be concealed.
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  • Zebra
    In my state, anyone over 21 and not a felon can carry an exposed firearm on the side, no permit needed. But it's not recomended. Since 9/11 they frown on a gunrack in the back of a pickup truck!
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  • Zebra
    And your vehicle is an extension of your personal property and you can conceal a pistol with no permit in MS. Try that in Alabama or Tennesse and it's a night in jail.
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  • SuburbanNoize
    this might help some of you, more states allow open carry than i thought.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_carry
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  • 44vernon
    Got stopped a couple of years ago.Cop says concealed means just that.The problem he says is driving with it out in the open or on your person is little old ladys calling in to report, "a man with a gun" Thanks,44vernon
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  • Kimbercolt
    I think if more people carried concealed crime would really drop, but if you carried on the hip, you are then a target yourself.
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  • rufe-snow
    See it all the time in AZ. It was kind of surprising when I first moved here to see a sweet young thing in a dry restaurant with a pistol on her hip. Or some old fart walking down Camelback, ( low rent side of Camelback ) with a Glock. You get use to it real quick, and after a while don't give it a second though.
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  • zipperzap
    I'd cause more problems than it'd be worth - for everyone -
    for all the above reasons and I don't anyone knowing if I'm
    armed or not. Why give him the first shot?
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  • floogy
    AZ open carry is legal with no permit and a round in the chamber. Need a permit for concealed carry though. My home state of MN just passed CCW law in the past few years and it is legal to open carry with a CCW permit. Open carry has a lot of negatives in most areas though.
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  • johnny dangerously
    lots of places have no law agenst open carry but you will get charged with desterbing the pice or the like, because most cops dont want people to do it. jd
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  • spanielsells
    quote:Originally posted by SuburbanNoize
    this might help some of you, more states allow open carry than i thought.

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_carry
    I wouldn't trust wikipedia to tell me that the earth is round. I certainly wouldn't use it to tell me about the legalities of carrying a firearm openly. Any moron with a computer could have written that.
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  • Colonel Plink
    Here in Colorado, and especially in a farming town like mine, it wouldn't cause a huge problem. But I just don't have a need to do so.

    If I wanted to carry, I'd just get a CCW so's not to frighten the squares and the tourists.

    Then I'd have to get a carry-type weapon.

    Which, when you think about it, is a great reason to buy another gun, right?
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  • PennyPincher
    I think it is like anything else. People would get used to it. When I got rid of my cell phone people acted as if the earth would crumble. Wierd what people think is important. I do have a beeper and the people who take care of my son when I'm working and my husband have the number and that's it.

    Seems to me it is our right to carry open and when we don't it furthers the governments power to take away our rights. I also think that if more people did it the less reaction we would get.

    Just my 1 cent
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  • PC800
    It all depends on your state laws. Like someone already said, I saw it all the time in Arizona. And it is legal here in Virginia also, but you don't see it as much. And some police here in VA don't like but it is legal, and we members of the VCDL have been educating them the last few years, so that is getting better.
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