open carry in your area?

[Echo40]

Open Carry is semi-legal in Pennsylvania, mostly because there are no laws against Open Carry, only Concealed Carry. However, pretty much nobody Open Carries here because if a firearm is inside an Automobile, even if it's right out in the open, it's still considered "Concealed" by law, thus making Open Carry impractical for anyone who isn't a pedestrian.
Fortunately, Concealed Carry Licenses are on a shall issue basis, meaning anyone who can pass a background check can easily obtain a CCL, no tests or anything required, and despite what certain elitists assert, the hills of Pennsylvania aren't alive with the sound of negligent discharges, so evidently mandatory training isn't necessary to prevent all of us civilian peons from shooting ourselves/others.
Meanwhile, the average licensed motorist in my area routinely speeds, blows through Stop Signs, speeds up at Yellow Lights, doesn't consistently use Turn Signals, and spends more time looking at their phone than they do the road ahead of them, yet each of them had to pass a Driver's Test, same as everybody else. It's almost as if passing tests has absolutely nothing to do with negligence and even if tests were as prerequisite towards a CCL, then those who are negligent with safety would still be negligent regardless.

 

[crazyphil]

Open carry is legal in Idaho for those 18 years old or older. No license
is required for concealed carry. I only recall seeing one guy carrying in
the open since the law became effective. He was in Walmart, of course.

 

[sigp220.45]

I’ve only seen a few open carriers here in my little town.

My oldest boy was working at a Jimmy John’s in ABQ a few years ago. He called me and said a younger guy came in open carrying. I said - I bet it was a Springfield XD in a thigh holster. Bingo - score one for Dad.

If its legal go for it. Its also legal to wear your pants below your underwear.

 

[Old cop]

While open carry is legal in my state it is pretty unusual where I live and will bring unwanted attention from law enforcement. Not worth the hassle IMHO.

 

[Rustyt1953]

If its legal go for it. Its also legal to wear your pants below your underwear.

As is wearing a ball cap off axis.

 

[mark brewer]

Open Carry is semi-legal in Pennsylvania, mostly because there are no laws against Open Carry, only Concealed Carry. However, pretty much nobody Open Carries here because if a firearm is inside an Automobile, even if it's right out in the open, it's still considered "Concealed" by law, thus making Open Carry impractical for anyone who isn't a pedestrian.
Fortunately, Concealed Carry Licenses are on a shall issue basis, meaning anyone who can pass a background check can easily obtain a CCL, no tests or anything required, and despite what certain elitists assert, the hills of Pennsylvania aren't alive with the sound of negligent discharges, so evidently mandatory training isn't necessary to prevent all of us civilian peons from shooting ourselves/others.
Meanwhile, the average licensed motorist in my area routinely speeds, blows through Stop Signs, speeds up at Yellow Lights, doesn't consistently use Turn Signals, and spends more time looking at their phone than they do the road ahead of them, yet each of them had to pass a Driver's Test, same as everybody else. It's almost as if passing tests has absolutely nothing to do with negligence and even if tests were as prerequisite towards a CCL, then those who are negligent with safety would still be negligent regardless.

if having a gun in the vehicle is considered concealed, then how do you take your gun to a range or hunting? do you have to have a concealed permit to take your gun hunting?

 

[AJ]

Not legal in FL, except under certain very specific conditions.

I am glad it is not. We have enough kooks here without adding that to the mix. Besides getting a CCW is not hard, and better the fact that you have a weapon to be a surprise to a bad guy.

 

[steelslaver]

As Steelslaver mentioned, open carry is and has been legal for many years here in Montana.

With Montana becoming a Constitutional Carry State, I have noticed quite an uptick in people open carrying at the local Scheels, Shiptons, and Cabelas stores as well as open to the public stores everywhere.

I much prefer to carry concealed.....if that it their choice, then I respect that.

Have also noticed that almost no one pays any attention to the fact that many more are now open carry advocates.

Seems like you could start a chain saw and walk up and down the isles and nobody would pay any attention to you..........

Randy

I find it interesting that your seeing more open carry around thertr. I guess Scheels, Big R and Cabelas are kind of an attraction for those who would. But, then I don't carry here all the time and always do in your city, and the other biggies

 

[.38SuperMan]

In the last 5 years I’ve only seen two people open carry.

 

[quikdraw67]

Open Carry is semi-legal in Pennsylvania, mostly because there are no laws against Open Carry, only Concealed Carry. However, pretty much nobody Open Carries here because if a firearm is inside an Automobile, even if it's right out in the open, it's still considered "Concealed" by law, thus making Open Carry impractical for anyone who isn't a pedestrian.
Fortunately, Concealed Carry Licenses are on a shall issue basis, meaning anyone who can pass a background check can easily obtain a CCL, no tests or anything required, and despite what certain elitists assert, the hills of Pennsylvania aren't alive with the sound of negligent discharges, so evidently mandatory training isn't necessary to prevent all of us civilian peons from shooting ourselves/others.
Meanwhile, the average licensed motorist in my area routinely speeds, blows through Stop Signs, speeds up at Yellow Lights, doesn't consistently use Turn Signals, and spends more time looking at their phone than they do the road ahead of them, yet each of them had to pass a Driver's Test, same as everybody else. It's almost as if passing tests has absolutely nothing to do with negligence and even if tests were as prerequisite towards a CCL, then those who are negligent with safety would still be negligent regardless.

IDK where you are in PA, but you described Scranton drivers to a T.

The only thing you missed is cutting through a parking lot at traffic speed to avoid a red light.

 

[quikdraw67]

if having a gun in the vehicle is considered concealed, then how do you take your gun to a range or hunting? do you have to have a concealed permit to take your gun hunting?

If you don't have the CCW in PA the gun must be unloaded and the gun and ammo be separated in your car. Think gun in trunk and ammo in the glove compartment.

 

[31FordA]

if having a gun in the vehicle is considered concealed, then how do you take your gun to a range or hunting? do you have to have a concealed permit to take your gun hunting?

If the gun is accessible to the vehicle occupants it needs to be unloaded and separate from the ammo. So gun in the car, ammo in the trunk for example. A big advantage to getting a License to Carry in PA is to avoid that hassle.

I don’t see too many people in my part of PA open carry. Probably one or two a year. Last ones were in the grocery store last spring. They appeared to be a group of middle aged suburban motor cyclists out for a ride. Oddly enough, they were all carrying XD’s.

 

[Kenny D]

Open Carry in South Carolina

Open carry is legal in S.C. now.I have actually forgot about it.I have not seen any.

But you have to have a CCP to open carry. It became legal August 15, 2021 and as of today, I have seen anyone open carrying. The same law also cancelled the permit fee but you still have to show proof of 8 hours training and your finger print card. I have had a permit for years but open carry sounds like shoot me first. I wont be doing it.

 

[31FordA]

If you don't have the CCW in PA the gun must be unloaded and the gun and ammo be separated in your car. Think gun in trunk and ammo in the glove compartment.

Beat me to it. Once again blowing off typing class in high school comes back to haunt me.

 

[quikdraw67]

I saw a guy open carry at a beer distributor in Honesdale PA 2 weekends ago.

I don't know why he was, and I wasn't going to ask.

I had my 442 in my cargo shorts. No one noticed that.

With the exception of deer season, it's not a common practice in my neck of Penn's Woods

I remember some years ago a person prohibited to own firearms was walking around with a black powder revolver in open carry.

I forgot what the outcome of that was. Guy looked like Josey Wales. This was pre-social media, but in the internet era.

 

[Echo40]

The only folks I ever knew who open carried in PA were my brother who open carried while going for walks (more for wild animals than people) and I think that one of my old neighbors used to open carry, but I'm basing that off of him open carrying around the house, so I don't know if he did so anywhere else.

IDK where you are in PA, but you described Scranton drivers to a T.

The only thing you missed is cutting through a parking lot at traffic speed to avoid a red light.

I'm thinking of various places around Pittsburgh, namely on the roads between towns and suburbs, people always rushing to get somewhere in so much of a hurry that apparently safety is no longer an immediate concern.

 

[RobertJ.]

It's legal here but rarely seen. I've seen it a couple of times in the recent past, and they were both the same kinda thing: Twenty-something guy, carrying black plastic in a cheap Uncle Mike's holster.

 

[dsf]

I've seen it frequently in southern Oregon. Not in Medford, but Grants Pass, Roseburg and other smaller towns. Most recently, saw a fellow in work pants paying off an auto repair bill in GP Walmart. Where the hammer would be stuck through a loop on the thigh he had a Glock 17 hanging in. No mag though.

 

[BC38]

Perfectly legal in Washington (for now), but I generally only OC in the woods, riding quads, etc.

I did OC at a barn dance the other evening, but it was a private event and I only did because one of the gals putting on the dance regularly OCs her Sig.

 

[geekeye]

not news to anyone, but not legal here in california, except while hunting. i'm jealous of places where it is legal. spent a lot of time in the mountains and small towns of montana, idaho, and wyoming as a kid, so i always thought that a revolver on your belt and a shotgun and/or lever gun in the back window of your truck was totally normal. i suppose it's less common now than it was then even in those areas, which is a little sad. this whole "i sure hope my appearance doesn't offend someone in public" thing isn't healthy. if somebody is offended by seeing a gun, that's their problem. exact same argument activists of all sorts use for why it's important to be public and not hide what they are doing. seeing it makes it normal. hiding it makes it shameful and an uphill battle.



on a side note, in california the subject of open carry revolves around knives, instead of guns. california knife laws are extremely complicated and vary from county to county, but there are plenty of places where you can open carry knives here, and i do when possible, and have never had anyone say anything, even when it was a medium sized fixed blade. ymmv of course.