Ok. Here's a twist. The marijuana thing got me thinking. If you live in a state like Colorado, where pot is legal, and you choose to indulge, you are not breaking state law and a federal charge is pretty much not going to happen. However, if you purchase a firearm and answer 'No' on 4473 question 11e, are you lying on that form? If you are then you're committing a crime. I travel to Denver about once a year and I don't recall ever seeing a sporting goods store or gun store in the proximity of a pot store. Plenty of doughnut shops though. I think about these things.
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I would think that getting the conviction removed from your record would be the best thing to do, for many reasons, not just a CCW.
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Back to the original question.
If you don't have a carry permit, and can legally open carry, Open carry.
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If you don't have a carry permit, and can legally open carry, Open carry.
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Given the choices....
A. Illegally carrying concealed
B. Unarmed
C. Legal open carry
I'd choose C.
I'll also make the choice not to preach to others about their past behavior.
A. Illegally carrying concealed
B. Unarmed
C. Legal open carry
I'd choose C.
I'll also make the choice not to preach to others about their past behavior.
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So technically speaking a resident of CO, WA or any state with legal weed wouldn't be considered an "unlawful user"?
Or does Fed law supercede?
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It is funny to me no one likes lawyers until it will benefit them... that includes me. The OP needs one now.
For what it is worth I open carried a couple of days last week, no calls for man with a gun that I know of, no pointing, screaming running children...I did not get in a gun fight in the middle of the street, the clerk at the local 7-11 did not even bat an eye.....
OC is not even a month old in Texas... maybe I should give it a little more time for these events to manifest themselves.
For what it is worth I open carried a couple of days last week, no calls for man with a gun that I know of, no pointing, screaming running children...I did not get in a gun fight in the middle of the street, the clerk at the local 7-11 did not even bat an eye.....
OC is not even a month old in Texas... maybe I should give it a little more time for these events to manifest themselves.
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The hysteria is always before pro-gun legislation is passed. Once passed, the naysayers of freedom go on to something else to cry about.
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So technically speaking a resident of CO, WA or any state with legal weed wouldn't be considered an "unlawful user"?
Or does Fed law supercede?
It's a common myth that marijuana is legal some places in the U.S.A. There are some places that it is not against state law. Pot is a schedule one narcotic. Which makes it illegal everywhere in the U.S.A. It doesn't matter how many states have statewide votes or how many state legislatures vote to decriminalize. It is still 100% illegal in 100% of the states. State law doesn't change federal law.
The lgs I frequent (I'm in Colorado), and I'm sure many others, has a large sign stating that if you use MJ,you can not legally buy a gun.
If you don't look like Cheech and Chong or have a large bag of Frito's how would they know?
Puts the seller in a bind though,doesn't it?
This correct. And while the feds were first resistant to the medical marijuana law, they are now backing off "legal" users. As for those states/cities that have made possession of a certain threshold of marijuana legal, there is no such exemption in federal law. Try emptying your pockets of a bag of weed in the bowl at the Denver airport or the local federal building and see what happens. . . .
Comrad
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It might be too late but you should have applied to have that conviction expunged, then you can legally answer no to the have you ever been convicted of a crime.
As far as open carry, I wonder where the line is drawn between open and concealed. I am thinking a small handgun worn own, if your shirt is out is that concealed. So the question I have is a tucked in shirt the difference between open and ccw?
As far as open carry, I wonder where the line is drawn between open and concealed. I am thinking a small handgun worn own, if your shirt is out is that concealed. So the question I have is a tucked in shirt the difference between open and ccw?
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In Nevada the definition of carrying openly is, visible from three sides. So, if the front of your shirt/jacket is open, and the gun is visible from the front, but not from the back, that would be concealed by the letter of the law.
I'm sure other states have similar definitions.
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If you don't look like Cheech and Chong or have a large bag of Frito's how would they know?
Sir, Can I see your license to carry that gun concealed?
Isn't it on the bumper?
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