When is a gun concealed? New law clarifies accidental weapon exposure issue; goes into effect Oct. 1

The St. Augustine Record (Fla.) ^ | August 7, 2011 | RYAN BUFFA

[neverdem]

BANG!

[Puppage]

A Florida law that goes into effect in two months expands the rights of gun-toters

They just can't help themselves.

[Joe Brower]

"Vice Mayor of Miami Gardens Aaron Campbell said, 'This probably passed because of someone from the NRA, someone who doesn't care about urban conditions.' "

Got news for you, asshat Vice Mayor -- it's your 'urban conditions' where these laws are needed the most.

Whiny statist putz.

[WayneS]

Vice Mayor of Miami Gardens Aaron Campbell said, "This probably passed because of someone from the NRA, someone who doesn't care about urban conditions."

How insulting! I'm an NRA member; and I don't care about your urban conditions; and I assure you I had NOTHING to do with passing this law!

[WOBBLY BOB]

if you’re exposed, you’re doing it wrong.

[nina0113]

I have a related question - when does ‘open-carry’ become ‘brandishing’?

We’re doing some home repairs for my folks while they’re on vacation, and I stayed there alone one night and took a 38 along - small enough that the neighbors wouldn’t really notice me carrying it in, and it just made me wonder where that line is.

[Pecos]

My guess is that “urban conditions” is code for “black on black crime”, but the mayor is too busy being PC to address conditions in particular neighborhoods to actually solve the problem. Dems will never understand that when they presume persons of color are incapable of decent behavior, they are simply playing into the hands of the lesser elements of society.

[WOBBLY BOB]

brandishing is threatening while showing and/or pointing said weapon.

[ArrogantBustard]

if you’re exposed, you’re doing it wrong.

If you have to worry about being exposed, THE LAW IS WRONG.

[WayneS]

We have a winner!

[WayneS]

Keep it in its holster and don’t talk about it and it’s a pretty safe bet you are not brandishing.

[GreenvillePatriot]

I took urban to mean a city or a town. As in someone openly carrying a firearm in a town or a city may make the citizens uneasy.

[BerserkPatriot]

Firearms are still not allowed on school property, career centers, bars, college or university property,

Hmm.. and where do most mass shootings occur?

[TalonDJ]

If you are carrying it in your hand they can probably try to stick you with ‘brandishing’. But if you are in your own yard, keeping it mostly, or completely hidden, and there isn’t anyone near by for you to be brandishing it ‘at’ then you are probably safe.

[TalonDJ]

This article is worthless. As a FL carrier I am intereted in not being at risk if I carry on a windy day. From this article I can’t tell what is and isn’t legal after this law. Now I have to go check some other sites and find out waht this really means.

[Sarajevo]

The law also allows registered firearm owners to have weapons in their cars.

I don't recall anything in the 2A requiring registration.

[nina0113]

I was afraid actually to touch it in public so I carried the belt by the middle in my hand with the holster hanging down. I figured that would be safe from the ‘ooh! I see a GUN! Better call the cops!’ crowd.

[itsLUCKY2B]

an Armed Society

Well, in the first place an armed society is a polite society. Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life. For me, politeness is a sine qua non of civilization. That’s a personal evaluation only. But gunfighting has a strong biological use. We do not have enough things that kill off the weak and the stupid these days. But to stay alive as an armed citizen a man has to be either quick with his wits or with his hands, preferably both. It’s a good thing.

Robert A. Heinlein (1907-1988),
spoken by Mordan Claude in
Beyond This Horizon (1942)

[longtermmemmory]

gun-toters?

talk about bias!