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Open carry is strong, protected, political speech.

NRA's critics cannot claim that the NRA is hypocritical about carry at their events any more.

1 posted on 05/23/2016 4:24:06 AM PDT by marktwain
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I’ve said it before and shall again: the Virginia tuck, as displayed by the female with the SIG, is ridiculous. It’s no longer necessary in VA, as I understand it, so there’s no common-sense reason for it to continue.


2 posted on 05/23/2016 4:53:29 AM PDT by T-Bird45 (It feels like the seventies, and it shouldn't.)
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NRA's critics cannot claim that the NRA is hypocritical about carry at their events any more.

It's about bloody time ...

Maybe in the future, the NRA can refrain from endorsing politicians like Joe Manchin.

3 posted on 05/23/2016 4:57:49 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)
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Interesting comment from police officer. Here in Arizona, I have yet to meet a police officer or deputy that anything negative to say about open or concealed carry.

My thought is, this is just one of the differences between street cops and political cops.


4 posted on 05/23/2016 5:06:06 AM PDT by Tupelo (we vote - THEY decide.)
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Texas is an open carry state. I have no problem with open carry. But tactically, concealed seems better to me. Am I wrong?


5 posted on 05/23/2016 5:07:05 AM PDT by uscga77 (the truth remains)
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Seems to me, if you can be “openly gay” anywhere (physically), and that OFFENDS me, why shouldn’t I be able to open carry ... because it OFFENDS people? It is what I BELIEVE. Gays have rights I don’t have!


13 posted on 05/23/2016 5:42:45 AM PDT by ThePatriotsFlag ( Anything FREELY-GIVEN by the government was TAKEN from someone else.)
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I'm sorry, but in my opinion the first couple is wrong. I would never open carry in a public space with a holster that didn't have positive retention. You're just asking to have your gun stolen from you. At home, on your own property, or at the range, fine. But I'd never use a Remora holster or a Kydex OWB holster in public.

This happened in Arizona on April 30: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Hs0I6B3n1Nc

Now the second gentleman appears to be using a Safariland ALS holster, and that has a positive locking system that prevents the gun from being removed from the holster unless the unlocking lever is pressed. This prevents the sudden snatch and grab of the weapon from the uninformed who don't know how the holster works.

This is why uniformed police officers only use positive retention holsters.

16 posted on 05/23/2016 6:22:45 AM PDT by Yo-Yo (Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
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