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To: Mind Freed
live in a small town in Arizona. People here are allowed to carry a gun out in the open as long as they have a permit

Actually, if you check (NRA-ILA gun law summary for AZ), you'll find that carrying "out in the open" requires no permit. Only carrying concealed.

The original prohibitions on concealed carry assumed that only someone up to no good would hide the fact of being armed. Then, in most states, they decided that carrying openly was "threatening", "disturbing" or otherwise against good order or some such claptrap, and banned that as well.

84 posted on 03/10/2009 6:26:00 PM PDT by El Gato ("The Second Amendment is the RESET button of the United States Constitution." -- Doug McKay)
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To: El Gato

Actually, I realized after I wrote my comment that I misspoke. Thanks for the clarification.


85 posted on 03/11/2009 7:29:18 AM PDT by Mind Freed
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