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To: Osage Orange

I support these laws although I personally have no desire to carry openly.

I do wish there was a nation wide constitutional carry law.

5 posted on 04/20/2016 7:20:28 PM PDT by yarddog (Romans 8:38-39, For I am persuaded.)

I carry openly when I'm in the fields and forests....I don't when in the cities.

I carry concealed...when I think the need. I have a pistol in my truck at all times.

9 posted on 04/20/2016 7:23:08 PM PDT by Osage Orange (The GOPe.....are actually worse than the Dim's)

I thought there already was. Isn’t it called the 2nd amendment?

12 posted on 04/20/2016 7:35:29 PM PDT by EvilCapitalist (Lazamataz for President 2016)

I support these laws although I personally have no desire to carry openly.

Remember the late 1980s & early 1990s? Shall Issue concealed carry laws were new and few. Some States (Florida, for example) had Shall Issue concealed carry, but prohibited open carry. The laws were interpreted such that if the outline of your concealed weapon was visible, or some part of it were uncovered momentarily, you were violating the prohibition on open carry. Concealed carry discussions and literature were full of warnings about "printing" and "flashing" and similar nonsense. Open carry laws protect us all from that problem.

And then there's the Constitutional issue ... "keep and bear arms".

That's why I support legal open carry even though I rarely do it.

20 posted on 04/21/2016 4:25:34 AM PDT by NorthMountain (A plague o' both your houses.)

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