Map: Where Is ‘Open Carry’ Legal?

WSJ ^ | 8/22/14 | RANI MOLLA

[JRandomFreeper]

If it's private property... things are different. I open carry here in Texas (ON MY PROPERTY) regularly. I won't go across the street with my pistol on my hip, though.

/johnny

[Secret Agent Man]

not true. the perps can always toss a bunch of purses, boots, or shiny things at them to distract them, and get the jump on them.

but they’d have to be good quality stuff, whatever was used.

[JRandomFreeper]

Uppity black folks thought they had the right to carry to defend themselves, too. The Democrat legislature in Austin took care of that.

Open carry of firearms is a civil right. Racist Dems have always hated it.

/johnny

[bgill]

Hanging my head in shame about Texas.

Never realized the vast majority allow.

[JRandomFreeper]

I think it’s pushy

Preaching on a street corner is pushy, too. You against that?

I don't care if my exercising my right harelips the governor, I'll do it if I please. That's what rights are.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

We have a lot to overcome. Dewhurst let open carry die in the legislature because he was a liberal, supported by Dems.

He's been allowed to seek other job opportunities (trans- We fired the bastard).

It's up to us to push open carry home.

/johnny

[Daffynition]

Connecticut.

Just ask Jim Goldberg

[Daffynition]

Vermont and Alaska.

[JRandomFreeper]

Here in this part of Texas, I can walk down the street with a shotgun or a rifle, and won't get a raised eyebrow, unless a cop wants to borrow my pig gun.

Strap on a pistol, and you'd think I'd set fire to the old folks home...

/johnny

[Georgia Girl 2]

“And, in a tense situation, I’d prefer that I don’t get shot by the cops when they show up and don’t know who is who”

Yes there is that. Fer sure.

[bgill]

That campaign ad with his mil is second on my annoyance meter only to a speech by hussein.

[JRandomFreeper]

You need to update your info. Arkansas and Arizona do too (at least).

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

He's gone. Our nightmare at that level is over.

Now to clean up the darn mess.

/johnny

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

I’m on my third 5 year permit. The class I take is taught by former LEO’s and the owner of the pistol range.

Solid information.

[JRandomFreeper]

Police rarely shoot someone with a holster, open carrying.

When is the last one you heard of?

You fear something that mostly doesn't happen.

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

Really solid? What cases of police shooting open carriers do you know of?

/johnny

[JRandomFreeper]

The class I take is taught by former LEO’s

You might be getting some propaganda.

/johnny

[Daffynition]

News like that is slow to get to these here parts.

[ButThreeLeftsDo]

Much better info than a “class” at Gander.

[JRandomFreeper]

Hollar' 'round to the telegraph station, and see if they've heard anything. ;)

Shoot, I heard the Cubs won the Pennant in 1945.

/Johnny