Posted on 11/09/2015 1:16:13 PM PST by marktwain
I stopped to fuel up at a local gas station. The price was $1.93 a gallon. I was open carrying my old Glock 17. As I came out the door, the biker was standing beside this beautiful Indian motorcycle. I said "Nice bike", and he replied, "What are you carrying?"
Glock 17, I said, and he pulled open his vest to show me his S&W M&P. He was an armed biker. His vest proudly proclaimed that he was a Vietnam Vet. I said that while I had been in service during Vietnam, my tour was in California, at Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation (now Ft. Hunter Liggett), mostly shut down in one of the several rounds of base closures in the 90's. But, hey, somebody has to be a REMF (Rear Echelon type). He said he didn’t meet many Army Vets in Yuma, they were nearly all Marines... and he was right.
Then he offered me a Bible, as he was handing them out at the gas station. So we had quite a few things in common: Armed, veteran, Christian, motorcycle riders. We hit it off.
Jimmy hands out Bibles quite regularly. He had been wanting to carry for quite a while, but had been putting off getting a permit. It just stuck in his craw a to ask the government for permission. Then Arizona passed Constitutional, or "permitless" carry, and he started carrying regularly. He says it is a major reason why he loves Arizona.
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>>An armed biker meets an open carrier. They talk about bibles...
Impossible. When two guns meet, the streets will run red with blood. The media says so.
My kind of people!
There’s our 2017 ticket
I remember floating down the Yuma river with a few Marines and galsmon the 4th of July. As hot as the Mekong Delta that day I reckun.
That is a sweet ride of a bike.
Talking Jesus? Oh yeah.
Talk to him every day.
“Bitter clinger”.
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If his piece is under his jacket he’s not carrying openly. He could get busted for concealed carry with no permit. (Other than the 2nd Amendment, but that’s just an old irrelevant piece of slaveowner paper).
Arizona passed Constitutional, or “permitless” carry,
Arizona = real America.
They’ve been carrying in the open out there for years anyway so I’m not surprised. I lived out there in ‘85. Not long after moving there, I saw a biker pull into a CircleK with a holstered gun on his hip. No one batted an eye - was just normal behavior.
The “open carrier” is Dean Weingarten, the author.
The man pictured by the MC is not Mr. Weingarten
Nor is the man pictured the “open carrier”.
I follow these open carry threads.
See Post #7, to which I replied, for context.
I thought all the Liberals said it would result in High Noon at the OK Corral out there...?
Not in AZ. You do not need jack squat to carry, even concealed in this state.
Strictly speaking I think there might be rules about signs or bars or both, but since I can't go drinking any more I don't fret much. I did see the "no firearms" sign in the front window of the book store, but I since didn't see a liquor license next to it as per ARS 4-229.A.1 I ignored it. Also ARS 4-229 gives a free pass to non-Arizonans or people politely looking around for a proper sign.
This is INSANE!
No permit to carry a concealed mass murdering, orphan and widow making piece of artillery???
Why, there should be rivers of blood cascading down every road, lane, street, boulevard, highway and back alley all over Arizona!
These people can't be trusted with such freedom! They'll murderize, genocidize, slaughter and lay waste to thousands of innocent people!!
Great story about a FREE MAN.
On my trips through the years to Arizona, I’ve seen many 1911s in condition one openly carried. I have openly carried in Utah in the past, into the market to buy camping/hunting last minutes, with no one batting an eye.
This day/age, I only carry hot and concealed, hence, I’m not the first target, and I’m prepared for stupid. Interestingly, in Utah, you can’t permit carry in the usual ... jails, courts, fed facilities, etc., but the law’s only singled out area is POSTED churches as a place you can’t legally carry concealed.
Colleges, public schools, malls, bars, all else is legal permit carry. If the public is welcome, you and your carry are welcome. We’re trying our best to get Constitutional carry passed.
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