The non-event that wasn’t
A non event was non-scheduled for June 5 wherein a bunch of folks would just go about their usual business only while open carrying a gun. And some folks did just that. For Breda, it was a minor event, being asked to cover that heater at Wal-Mart.
As for me, I was told to not carry. At a gun range. On the drive home, I had to swing by the local grocery store for some hamburger buns. And nothing happened.
June 7th, 2011 at 9:39 am
wow.
June 7th, 2011 at 10:17 am
Hey! I took part too!
June 7th, 2011 at 10:29 am
Amazing what doesn’t happen when nobody plans something!
June 7th, 2011 at 11:03 am
It is truly amazing how many ranges refuse to allow either OC or for that matter concealed carry. IMO a “hot” range is a safer place to be.
June 7th, 2011 at 11:05 am
Other than my wife rolling her eyes, absolutely nothing happened as I OC’ed all day (well, I left the pistol locked in the car during church, if I’m being honest).
Family BBQ managed to be a success and not a single person was shot. Almost seems like the anti-gunners lie about how OC turns people into blood thirsty maniacs…
June 7th, 2011 at 11:24 am
All the local municipal ranges near me have a no holster rule. Guns are either cased, unloaded, or being shot when the range is hot.
June 7th, 2011 at 3:19 pm
Honestly, I never asked at the range I visit. Normally I always have the IWB on. If I am going somewhere I am not supposed carry, that’s what the LCP is for. If I am going somewhere with metal detectors, I don’t go.
June 7th, 2011 at 3:53 pm
While I support your right to open carry, I don’t personally want anyone else should know that I’m armed.
I don’t want to stick out in any way at all and prefer to “ghost” my way through the crowd. I think we’re all a lot better off as a society when nobody knows who is carrying.
You are of course entitled to your own opinion.
June 7th, 2011 at 3:55 pm
I live in Texas and OC’d everywhere.
Nothing was said about it either.
June 7th, 2011 at 4:17 pm
I look like I am armed when I am oc or cc. Some people just have that go away look to them….
June 7th, 2011 at 5:19 pm
IMO a “hot” range is a safer place to be.
Having spent a lot of time RO’ing at club ranges and USPSA/Steel Challenge/NRA Pistol Silhouette matches and hunter education courses, I am afraid I don’t agree.
Its not the hot gun that is unsafe. Its all the fiddling around with them that is going on among people with varying skill levels. If it was an event that only had the people I knew and shot with regularly, then I’d agree.
June 7th, 2011 at 7:56 pm
As some of you may recall from my previous comments, I open carry regularly here in VA. Once at Target, a stock clerk (female, about age 60) asked me if that was a tazer on my hip. After explaining to her the details, and that she could do so as well, she got very excited and exclaimed that she was going to go get herself a gun as soon as she could.
A few months later, a young man who came to my door hawking bug exterminations I didn’t need, suddenly got all wide-eyed and burst out “I just noticed your gun! Are you a cop?” I told him “No, I’m just an average citizen like you.” He stepped back and said “That makes me really nervous.” I asked him “Why? Were you thinking of doing something stupid?” He replied “No, you just hear things.” To which I told him “Yes, you do. And most of those are myths. But put yourself in my shoes, and then see how safe you feel answering the door to complete and uninvited strangers.” He had no coherent response, and backed away and left.
June 8th, 2011 at 8:44 am
It’s going to take time to pry people’s minds loose from the grip they have on the statist view that cops can carry all the guns they want, while private individuals can carry nothing.