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I have a friend who's law enforcement adjacent in Pinellas county, home of Sheriff Bob Gualtieri.
They inform us that Pinellas has added an "open carry" response for calls from people seeing people openly carrying.
The deputy is instructed to drive past the area of sighting to confirm the carrier isn't brandishing or doing something stupid and if nothing dangerous is happening...
Just drive past.
Don't stop.
Don't hit the lights.
Don't talk to the open carrier.
Don't even slow down.
This, my friends, is what winning looks like and I rather like it.
That said:
We're in for a week of people pushing the limits intermittently and randomly.
1. Nothing has changed about where it's illegal to carry. If it was illegal to carry concealed there last week, it's illegal to open carry today.
2. If a business doesn't want you open carrying, and they tell you to leave. Leave. Leave immediately, do not pass go. Say you're sorry (even if you aren't). Refusing to leave is armed trespass and that's felony territory.
3. Don't open carry without some sort of retention! It also behooves you to find a class teaching about retention!
Every gun owner should have already become a member of, or regular donor to, a 2A org which actually works towards defeating ant-gun laws and which promotes the right to keep and bear arms.
ReplyDeleteIn Arizona, one such org is the AZ Citizen Defense League. It was AZCDL which got open carry back to the state.
It is likely those unfamiliar with Arizona who are surprised and shocked by the sight of open carry.