Thank you for the ping and post.
Purge the jack-booted thugs.
I’m not sure I want to go to the shoot if the cops are going to steal our guns from us. We have some VERY expensive pieces, and replacing them would cost us a pretty penny.
You won't be carrying openly, so don't have anything to worry about. This is one podunk town with a Sheriff who's too full of himself to know (or care) how the open carry law works in this state. He'll soon be straightened out.
I had that concern while educating some Arizona officials a couple of decades ago. To mitigate the risk, I strapped on a Russian Nagant revolver, an inexpensive surplus import that I had evaluated and found to be superior to an RG-14 as a self defense pistol. It has a peculiar way of ejecting loaded rounds that can be vexing if you do not know the system. I figured that once the officials took possession, It would be gratifiying to educate them about how to operate a revolver.
They did, I did, and a good time was had by all. I got my revolver back at the end of the day, and I made my point.
So, If you decide to involve yourself in some open carry activism, It does not require that you risk your prettiest or most expensive item.