[brent13a]

Are they allowed to carry a loaded magazine elsewhere on their body?

In Illinois you can technically open carry an unloaded handgun while having the ammunition separate from the magazine and those items elsewhere on your person.

The major problem being that if you had to use the gun, and once you loaded it, you would be breaking the law (a major felony). Then after you broke that law and if you used the gun there isn't a court in Illinois that would find for your defense(you would be charged with homicide).

So while open-carrying proves a certain point, for personal safety and well-being it's really really stupid.

Do I agree with how the law works? NO. Do I have to enforce it? YES.

[LachlanMinnesota]

Is it the same in California, does anyone know?

This kind of law is so obviously flying in the face of the second amendment, why has it not been challenged? Or has it?

[Cboldt]

-- The major problem being that if you had to use the gun, and once you loaded it, you would be breaking the law (a major felony). Then after you broke that law and if you used the gun there isn't a court in Illinois that would find for your defense(you would be charged with homicide). ... Do I agree with how the law works? NO. --

I recommend you learn how the law of self-defense really works.

-- Do I have to enforce it? YES. --

Actually, you, and the courts, and the prosecutor, all of youhave this widget called "discretion." I'm sure you use it.

-- while open-carrying proves a certain point, for personal safety and well-being it's really really stupid. --

Do you open carry?

[Lurker]

So you are knowingly and willingly enforcing a law you believe is un-Constitutional? Don’t think much of your oath, do you.

[papertyger]

Do I agree with how the law works? NO. Do I have to enforce it? YES

Thank you for so concisely articulating my primary grievence with practitioners of the law industry. So long as the citizen is ignorant of what is and is not within the officer's discretion, they stay happy...but as soon as a citizen challenges that discretion, rightly or wrongly, the officer invariably escalates it into a dick beating contest.

I believe this kind of compartmentalizing mentality fosters the exact kind of tunnel vision demomstrated by two Polish police officers who cried like babies when they were held to account for murdering Father Jerzy Popieluszk just before the fall of the Jaruzelski regime.

[Lazamataz]

Do I agree with how the law works? NO. Do I have to enforce it? YES.

I understand, but there is 'enforcement', and then there is ENFORCEMENT.

I trust, if you don't agree with a law, yours would be the 'enforcement'. I also trust that when choosing between wanton oppression, and backing the people, you will choose the people.