I personally am a concealed carry guy, but I do understand the open carry crowd. In my mind it’s a push back against the whole “guns are icky” campaign being foisted on our kids. My kids know better, as do my grandkids. But until and unless we get the general public to look at an open carried firearm no differently than an openly carried cell phone, we still have work to do.
The Minnesota law was written “on or about one’s person or clothing.” The words “concealed” or “open carry” are not used. This was done so that if one’s cover garment were to blow up in the wind or a similar situation, you can’t be arrested for ‘brandishing’.
That being said...I was in a diner with the then girlfriend having breakfast on a Sunday morning. Carrying. Concealed. Or so I believed. Turns out I was one club too big for the cover.
A table away, a female teenager who was there with her family got a peek. She couldn’t take her eyes off. I tugged on the sweatshirt that I thought was way too big to fail one more time. She whispered something to Dad. I heard him say “probably a security guard”.
Way to go Dad!!