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338winmag

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open carry
« on: October 03, 2008, 11:20:29 AM »
i want to know where the people hear stand on the open carry issue thanks
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Re: open carry
« Reply #1 on: October 03, 2008, 11:31:03 AM »
I am 100% for concealed carry - PERIOD!

I am 100% for open carry provided the person carrying uses good judgement.  We must live with the society norms we are dealt today, and discretion must be used to respect the feelings of others.

I compare it to carrying game home from a hunting trip.  Is it neccessary to lay a mule deer across the trunk of a car uncovered to get it home, or could it be tarped?  Why raise the ire of the anti's just to show something off or to save the work of tarping.
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Re: open carry
« Reply #2 on: October 03, 2008, 11:35:55 AM »
338,
 WELCOME!

 The only time I do is when I'm deer and elk hunting.
ccw the rest of the time.
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Re: open carry
« Reply #3 on: October 03, 2008, 03:57:45 PM »
If it don't 'show', then they don't 'know'.......and what they don't know, won't hurt them...unless they try to hurt me and mine.

CCW..100%

As English Bob said in 'Unforgiven', "If you don't see it, or more particularly, if you don't hear it......"
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Re: open carry
« Reply #4 on: October 03, 2008, 05:16:40 PM »
I open carry very rarely, I like the element of surprise and prefer not to set myself up as a target. In principal its a wonderful thing, in reality its a bad choice. IMO
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Re: open carry
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Re: open carry
« Reply #5 on: October 03, 2008, 05:25:03 PM »
PA has open carry.  CCW is the way to go, unless you're walking in the woods around here. Our open carry provision also keeps  'brandishing' charges away if some anti-gun loon/activist spots your pistol. And, boy, did we get an influx of them from NY City.
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Re: open carry
« Reply #6 on: October 03, 2008, 05:49:07 PM »
I wouldn't open carry much if Texas made it legal, but I don't see a problem with it. It should at least be legal if you're licensed to carry.
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Re: open carry
« Reply #7 on: October 03, 2008, 05:56:46 PM »
MA has no CCW on the books so it's perfectly legal to open carry if you're licensed to carry a firearm.  It is not adviseable because "Brandishing" is considered felony assault in this state.  Though nearly 25% of the population is licensed, it's not worth the hassle of upsetting the locals.

In MA, you cannot even posess ammunition without an FID or LTC even in your own place of residence.

Walk softly and carry a BIG GUN, concealed of course.

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Re: open carry
« Reply #8 on: October 03, 2008, 06:01:41 PM »
I should have done a little better job of explaining my open carry thoughts:

I open carry when hunting of course, but I also do so when working on parts of the farm.  When cleaning up brush piles, cleaning ditches, field tiles, culverts or walking fences.  I have the bad habit of heading in to the fleet store or implement shop with a six gun on the hip ... ooooooops!
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Re: open carry
« Reply #9 on: October 03, 2008, 06:13:16 PM »
I do open carry around my house and yard, however.
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