Concealed Carry vs. Open Carry ?
 

Why would anyone open carry - just curious - this guy makes a lot of sense.

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Depends on weather, attire, local laws/customs and lots of other things. I open carry on the bike once in a while because it's just too hard to close up the jacket over it, I don't want to wear a belt with riding pants and it'd be hard to draw from concealment with a zipped up riding jacket on. I've also OC'ed on horseback because, again, too hard to draw from under a jacket, especally with one hand on the reins. A few times I needed to stop at the store on the way home from the range and just didn't have a concealement holster with me. I ALWAYS open carry when at a range or shooting in the desert. It looks pretty silly to drape a shirt over a bulky OC holster. It's totally legal and customary here, so it's not biggie. The whole thing about being the first guy the bad guy tries to take out is pretty much a myth and I've never heard of it happening. And offending visiting Californians and Canadians is an added bonus.

Didn't watch the video. My view is that violent crime would go down and people would be a hell of lot more polite. Also it might thin out the gene pool.

Dean

Open carry is not legal in Texas. CHL = Concealed Handgun License. The closest we can come to open carry is a Sneak Pete holster. Think GIANT cell phone holster mounted on your belt. Even for small pistols, it is big.

They are comfortable and the pistol is concealed enough to be legal. And 99% of people don't recognize it for what it is.

Open carry is like walking with a big mean looking dog

Before the CA ban on open unloaded carry went into effect, the political nut jobs who wanted to push things would go to various events with their guns and mostly no one would even notice. I was at several and except for the tee shirts that said in HUGE letters they had a gun, no one seemed to care.

Why not? If guns are legal, why can't you just carry them openly?

These are the friendly, law-abiding Second Amendment-protecting Libertarians who brought about California's open carry ban. This is a picture of their visit to the capital building to attend a hearing on, what else, gun control. Circa 1968.

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That is useless as tits on a bore hog

I guess you could throw the gun at someone..;)

We have open carry in Colorado, except Denver, I see people carry, it doesn't seem like a big deal here.

I don't carry, not allowed to here.. so i just apply the crazy eye'ed look whenever i see something suspicious..
Bu now people look at me like i'm the suspicious one... so they look funny to me and i have to keep up the crazy eye 24/7..
It's tough.

+1 Neither as in above ^^^^^^

If'n it were up to me I'd want to be concealed enough to not cause a stream of calls to the PD from the local immigrants who drive volvos, vote democrat, and don't know (or believe that) carrying is legal - "He's carrying a *gun*!!!". Even if OC is legal, the PD will have to eventually respond, which means interacting with you, which means a hassle for you and more paperwork for the responding officers to fill out.

I carry and do not want people to know I carry. Close friends know but not the guy at the ATM or gas station. I don't like open carry those people scare me.

SC is much like Texas. We cannot open carry but we can conceal carry with a license.

Y'all still have those weird airline bottle liquor laws?

In AZ the law is: if you can own it, you can carry it - open or concealed, no permit necessary for either - bow & arrow, knives, machine guns, anything. Love this place. Everyone stay away.

No, that law is gone. Too bad, too. Most of the bartenders mix a drink with next to nothing in it, now. At least then you knew what you were getting.

The law may have seemed weird, but it helped prevent establishments from pouring light and charging full price.

Anyway, we did away with it in 2005.

Before 1973, South Carolina did not allow liquor to be sold by the drink. People brought their own bottles into bars and restaurants and bought mixers and ice.

Voters in 1972 approved a constitutional amendment to allow liquor by the drink in containers of 2 ounces or less, says Tom Sponseller, president of the Hospitality Association of South Carolina, which represents 2,300 restaurants, taverns and hotels.

"This was not really unique in the 1970s," Sponseller says, noting that [nine] other states had similar laws at the time. "Over the years, the little bottles fell out of favor."

By 1990, Utah, which has some of the nation's most stringent liquor-control laws, was the only other state with a mini-bottle law. It ended the practice that year.

California's unloaded open carry law was that the gun had to be unloaded but you could have a loaded magazine We really do need to have a state law not county controlling the right to self protection. I'm assumed to be a victim by my County.