You should get kilt. A kilt is perfect for OC, especially at the kilt store in downtown Seattle where, despite the predictions of the anti-gun anti-OC people, doesn't cause panic or shootings.

I would not want to ask him what he carries under his kilt.

Only guy I know who wears a kilt is called Smack. No one says anything to a guy named Smack, regardless of what he wears.

The idea that the first thing a holdup man does when he enters a liquor store or a bank is start shooting is Hollywood. Most bank robberies are committed with a note. Gunfire tends to attract police, and all those concealed carry folks will most likely kick into high gear if a fool starts shooting before he even gets to a teller to hand them his little note that says "I have a gum"....

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It looks like your holster isn't long enough for your roscoe.

LOL, ya knows I's Scottish, right.


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Well, as soon as I get my rig from you.....I ll carry with my Kilt so I can say I've open carried and kilt......

In all seriousness.....I am an urban creature. Open carry of weapons has never been socially acceptable in urban areas. Simple social norms. Just like walking around in a purple thong and a feather boa is not a socially acceptable way for a man to dress in public or walk around the mall. Legal, just not socially acceptable, thus it like open carry of weapons in the metropolitan environment will draw attention. That is usually a negative to me, others don't care. Is what it is.
Now,with that said I also travel to a rural area of Texas and train the local LE Special Response Team. I asked the guys at training the other day about seeing open carry. This is a place where I would be totally comfortable carrying openly and is not a place where it would be out of place. They said they had not seen anyone open carrying. During the discussion it came up that most of the folks they have in the area who would likely open carry can't because they cannot get a CHL. Usually due to some disqualifying misdemeanor records or other issues. Most of the known "advocates" for open carry they had don't have a CHL. Turns out they really wanted open carry because they could not carry concealed legally because they couldn't get a license. Heard this at numerous places in my area as well. It seems nothing has changed and this is a place where I would venture everyone at the local eatery has a J frame in their pocket.

Either way.....is what it is. What peeves me is how many places are getting combo signs that never had signage in the past and is an unintended consequence.

Yeah,
Open carry has a time and place, just like when discretion is the order of the day.


It's one's own call I guess, as to one's own pleasure.


Su Amigo,
Dave

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I'm sure it will it catch on like it did in ohio

I wouldn't dispatch the officer

False untrue and mythical

I do believe that the tactics used by the open carry lobby alienated a good portion of the population. Standing on street corners and walking into eateries with slung AR 15s put non-gun people on edge. It bugged me too.

It was bad marketing. If you want to sell an idea to somebody, don't scare them.

As a result, we get more 30.06 signs along with the 30.07 signs.

What's done is done. Likely most people will forget about it. Maybe over time the signs will fall down and never be put back up. Folks will forget why they put them up in the first place. (Except for stores selling booze. What a headache open carry created for these enterprises. An unintended consequence.)

I generally agree with you. Although I did open carry yesterday...from the range to the house...and then only because I could. If I was going to make any stops, I wouldn't have done it. No one needs to know I have a gun.

Story at Fox News today, titled "Open carry in Texas 'much ado about nothing,' despite doomsayers' predictions"

Not sure if I could post the link or not, so just search the title.

As I posted on a couple of occasions now I have OC'd. I will admit I was kinda nervous the first time and when no one had a coronary, wasn't bothered by a LEO, did not get into a shoot out... all the things people, even some on this forum, have said would happen, did not happen. I know... some will opine that it is when not if... baloney. I maintain that the media has corrupted and shaped the narrative on the carriage of a side arm and has tried to convince Mr. and Mrs./Ms. John Q. Pubic of the , imagined, peril that society will face. I, for the life of me am not able to explain how paranoid people are portrayed to be, even some that proclaim to be 2nd A. supporters.
I still maintain it is my right to carry as I deem appropriate for the circumstance I will be in. I have the right to refuse to do business with those that would interfere with these rights. I believe the poor misguided public, given a chance and exposure, will find that I, we that carry, are not blood thirsty monsters bent on violence and depravity. In fact most people are too involved in their own affairs to really pay all that much attention to a person openly carrying a side arm, I, like a lot of you, am a hunter, I have witnessed wild life not give me a second glance when not on the hunt... but let me step into the wild bent on killing my game of choice and watch what takes place, the same game animals you saw the day before has vanished and those you do come across are on high alert.
I refuse to live in fear of what a BG might or might not do with regard to my presence open carrying my weapon of choice. As I continue to practice OC I will become more comfortable with it. As when I first started to CC, I was nervous thinking people could tell I was carrying a gun.... as time and use wore on I do not give it a second thought.
Texas will be just fine.... a much to do about nothing is ... well, correct.

Much ado about nothing

One Month in, Texas Open Carry Law Fails to Provoke Violence, Lawlessness - USA Carry

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