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People are going to be doing it after the 25th when the ruling becomes final and the orders are published.
All of the laws about conceal carry become laws about all carry.
So where you can and cannot carry in Florida will not change.
The sign on the door of a business has no legal bearing, but the ownership can ask you to go elsewhere and they can trespass you if you refuse to go.
The legalities are simple.
Now the important thing if you're going to be open carrying.
DON'T BE A DICK ABOUT IT!
Just because you can, doesn't mean that you should in some instances. There's nothing requiring you open carry either.
This post is not about the debate over if open carry is a good or desirable idea. You want to have that debate, Blogger will let you make your own blog where you can chatter on about it to your heart's content. I might even make one my own. My reasons for wanting OCW have more to do with having the right to choose if I do or not rather than a strong desire to exercise that right.
Slinging up your AR will be legal, but it will also be rude.
Use your best manners!
Also use some damn common sense about toting openly.
The main problem with anyone being able to see your gun is everyone can see your gun.
If we could assume the best of everyone, we wouldn't be carrying a gun around at all, would we?
Just like riding a motorcycle and assuming that everyone is actively trying to run you over is the safest way to ride: Assuming that everyone is trying to steal your gun from your holster is probably won't steer you too far wrong.
Get a holster that retains your gun. Make sure it's made for your gun. Generic retention holsters often don't retain some guns that fit.
Get one that will stay on your belt if someone tugs against the retention.
Make sure that belt will stay on you too.
I had some of the same concerns when Texas passed open carry a few years ago.
ReplyDeleteHonestly it turned out to be a giant nothing-burger. I saw more exposed pistols in the first week than I have in the 10 years since, and it was single digits in that first week. If I see one instance of open carry a year, it’s a lot. That said, I don’t live in one of our major metropolitan areas. Not sure it that makes it more or less common.
I think most people realized what cops have known for a long time… a pistol hanging off your hip snags and hits EVERYTHING and is hard on upholstery to boot. Security issues notwithstanding, it’s mostly just a huge PITA.
That said, Florida Man is gonna Florida Man, so your mileage may vary in the Sunshine State.
DWW
Tam has said something along the lines "open-carrying at people" - not an accusation of poor muzzle discipline or outright threatening behavior, but shoving their right to open carry into people's faces until said people said "nay, fuck that." I suspect that was a not-minor factor in CA losing open carry.
ReplyDeleteWish I could remember more about what she was commenting on - it's been a number of years, but I *really vaguely* seem to recall it was in regards to dumbshittery at or around an airport...
Fake edit: didn't use the phrase, but here's airport idiocy. https://booksbikesboomsticks.blogspot.com/2014/07/not-helping.html
I remember that at the time.
DeleteI liked her better before she became a gun writer and started rubbing shoulders with the instructorati.
Carrying at people has only had a negative outcome in one state. California.
Texas got two expansions of their rights with people carrying at people. Some being downright idiotic about it too.
Two other examples that get trotted out are Minnesota and Pennsylvania. The laws were already in motion before the carrying started and they were protests against laws passed. Not the same thing.
But, since it's been 11 years since she got upset at the open carrier in Phoenix... Have they banned the open carry of long arms? Because that surely must have hurt us, right?
Oh, wait... The sky did not fall. AGAIN.
I am so very tired of, "Ooh, we're afraid to go with you Bluto, we might get in trouble."
Open carry is becoming more and more legal and only one place can really say that carrying at someone hurt things... The least gun friendly place in the whole country.
Also! The stupid carrying at people stopped in Texas as soon as the law allowing open carry of handguns!
DeleteFlorida had a spattering of such carrying at people while "fishing" and I suspect that the more extreme advocates of that will stop now that it's simply legal.