[MrPiper]

If you support open carry I could not tell it by you call someone doing so legally an idiot

First of all, I never called anyone an idiot, don't put words in my mouth, and if she was carrying concealed, she would not have the problem she has now. Thats why my state says, it must be concealed if carried.

She should, as many others have found out the hard way, contacted her local sheriff to see what "he who controls the permits" thought about it.

You have a perfectly legal right to go wandering around "the Hood" at 2am, but don't be surprised when you get knocked in the head.

And for the record, I don't believe you should have to have a license at all to fish, hunt, CCW. Its all just a tax.

[marktwain]

MrPiper posted:
Thats why my state says, it must be concealed if carried.

marktwain replies:
I presume that your state is Alabama. If so, the attorney general has issued an opinion that open carry is legal and that no permit is required. See the link:

http://www.ago.state.al.us/oldopinions/8400205.pdf

However, a permit is required to carry a handgun in a vehicle.

[driftdiver]

I support open carry although rarely do it myself. I believe firearms are more useful if they don’t know you have one.

That said the CCW is becoming a license to possess a firearm. That is wrong IMO. Its spreading the belief that you have to have a ‘license’ to carry a firearm. Soon it will be required to even own one.

[Old Student]

“She should, as many others have found out the hard way, contacted her local sheriff to see what “he who controls the permits” thought about it.”

You've obviously not been following this story. She's carrying open because they denied her permit renewal.

I've got a reason to carry openly , too. It's just not legal here, yet.

http://www.morgannick.com/morgans_story.html

This little girl was one of my MIL’s neighbors. NO ONE was armed at that game, or Morgan might still be with her family. They do not know if she is alive or dead, or where her body is.

This is one thing I'm MORE than willing to do “For the Children!”

[Hot Tabasco]

Thats why my state says, it must be concealed if carried.

I have checked your home page and your flag indicates you are a resident of Alabama. If that is correct then I offer that you are totally ignorant of your own state laws concerning "open carry" of firearms.

Do yourself a favor and educate yourself on your own state's laws concerning firearms ownership and the right to carry openly.

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