YMMV.
Posted on 02/03/2016 11:20:12 AM PST by aimhigh
Newport News police are investigating after a man reported he was pushed to the ground and had his handgun stolen late last week.
Officers responded to a report of the robbery in the 6000 block of Jefferson Avenue just before 8 p.m. Jan. 29, according to police spokesman Harold Eley.
The victim, a 37-year-old Hampton man, told police he was robbed as he walked across Jefferson Avenue to the lot at the Windsor House after visiting a friend at the Travelers Inn. He was wearing his handgun in a holster, open carry, on his hip, Eley said.
The man said he was approached from behind by two men, and one of them demanded his gun. The other then grabbed the gun from the holster and pushed him to the ground. Both men fled on foot southbound toward the trailer parks, Eley said.
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If you carry a gun for protection, you should not want others to know you have it. (paraphrasing Michael Berry)
YMMV.
“Open carry should be legal for all law-abiding Americans, but it is not always prudent. Anyone with open carry should also have something concealed, since they have a responsibility to ensure that a criminal doesn’t get away with their gun like these thugs did.”
Carrying for ‘79. First as a citizen, and professionally for 31 years.
The only time I would ‘open carry’, is when I draw on a threat. Advantage is compromised when the bad guy knows what I gots, and where it is: HE takes the advantage of stealth or deception in an approach.
On the job, open carry is required in uniform; in plainclothes, I carry concealed for obvious reasons....I have the advantage of stealth and deception.
Of more consistent concern to me than carrying one firearm, is carrying two. And comfort is difficult. KISS
Makes no sense to open carry IMHO.
YMMV
If you gotta carry open, a level 3 holster makes a lot of sense!
Even if they knock you out, Bad guys may have to flee before they can figure out how to draw it.
My level 3 is awesome....and has little , if any, negative impact on my draw-time. ( I practice for a minute every time I gotta wear it.)
Open carry is necessary and good in certain cases, like you said. Not so good in others.
In the not so good cases you have just painted yourself as the first target, or as a walmart.
They dont make all of them for lefthanders.
I carry a P239 or HK P2000 concealed.
Yup...one of the reasons why I am opposed to open carry...
If the state is going to enact such laws, they need to have a retention holster as a requirement to open carry...
It is well lit?
This happened at night. So how did they know he was open carrying?
Makes me want to know more details.
I notice they did not shoot him, and all they took was the gun.
Sounds a bit unusual.
Only the third case I have seen in 10 years, of an open carrier being robbed of his weapon.
Not one case of them being shot with it.l
“And, when the bad guy comes through the door, the open carry people are the first ones he shoots.”
I have yet to see an example of that actually happening.
“If the state is going to enact such laws, they need to have a retention holster as a requirement to open carry...”
Open carry is already the law in 45 states. I do not see the negative scenarios that are put forward as hypotheticals.
I see as many or more cases where concealed carriers have guns taken from them, because they are attacked and overcome; then the attacker finds they have a gun, and takes it.
Yes I defend anybody’s right to open carry but for myself and Mr. GG2 we don’t want the unwanted attention and we like to have surprise on our side.
I emember three Philadelphia cops being killed in a month in 1975. Two with their own guns.
I was open carrying a 357 last month. ‘ Course it was the last week of deer season and I also had a 30-06. ;<}
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