Just had to respond. I'm 52, and back when I was a young teenager, I had a pump action, single shot .22 caliber Crossman pellet rifle. Very powerful for an air gun, with a beautiful wood stock. It looked just like any other hunting rifle, especially when I had my scope on it. Any way, I used to go target practicing quite often in the nearby woods, and mind you, I'm in north east Massachusetts, so we're not talking about the boondocks here. I used to walk down the main drag with that rifle, on my way to the woods, and the cops would never bother me. They'd just drive by. Of course, I knew how to carry a weapon correctly, from an NRA Safe Hunter's Course, since I was about eight or nine, and as I said, so long as you weren't swinging it around by the barrel, the cops would just leave you alone. I never had a problem, ever. Not from the Police, not any neighbor. No one.
Now, forgetaboutit. Stuff like that is a thing of the past and won't likely ever come back. Too bad. I had a ball doing it and it was good prep for shooting expert in the Marines.
I'll tel you what, I wouldn't want to be a kid growing up now. I'm glad I was able to experience some real constitutional freedoms.
Yep, definitely don't like what's happening to my country...
Good account!