effengee
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I often read about CCW permits. I've asked this question before without any real clear response:
In any given state, in which it is legal to carry concealed with a permit, is it also legal to carry unconcealed without a permit???
Can a state pass a law that keeps you from bearing arms?
Here in Vermont, carrying a firearm concealed or not, is perfectly legal so long as you don't intend to commit a crime. Period, end-of-story...
I'm totally serious, you can look it up...
Vermont Statutes Annotated online
I have been told on several occasions by the law enforcement community that it is preferred that I conceal it if I am carrying because "It keeps the out-of-staters from getting nervous and calling us every time one of you guys walks into the grocery store."
I've also been asked to leave stores because my gun was showing...
I've also made the mistake of forgetting (not really, but you know what I mean) that I'm even wearing it and I'll reach for something in a store and next thing I know I'm talking to some security guy or there's a few fellow shoppers that totally avoid me like the plague...
I usually will conceal carry just to keep the looks from happening...
My favorite carry:
Inside a fanny pack. Completely discreet, year round use, always fashionable.
Sometimes I carry a handgun in an Uncle Mike's inside the pant holster that I tuck into my right front pocket and let the belt clip hook on the outside of my pocket. Not only does this let you sit in a car comfortably, but with a slightly loose T-shirt it looks like nothing more than a pager or a cell phone...
jimi
"A well regulated militia" is NOT the National Guard NOR is it a bunch of beer-swilling camouflage wearing yay-hoos spouting off about gun rights.
It consists of "we, the people" therefore, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" guarantees that there will never be a time when a citizen of the United States has to say:
"I wish I had a gun to defend my liberty and my life."
In any given state, in which it is legal to carry concealed with a permit, is it also legal to carry unconcealed without a permit???
Can a state pass a law that keeps you from bearing arms?
Here in Vermont, carrying a firearm concealed or not, is perfectly legal so long as you don't intend to commit a crime. Period, end-of-story...
I'm totally serious, you can look it up...
Vermont Statutes Annotated online
I have been told on several occasions by the law enforcement community that it is preferred that I conceal it if I am carrying because "It keeps the out-of-staters from getting nervous and calling us every time one of you guys walks into the grocery store."
I've also been asked to leave stores because my gun was showing...
I've also made the mistake of forgetting (not really, but you know what I mean) that I'm even wearing it and I'll reach for something in a store and next thing I know I'm talking to some security guy or there's a few fellow shoppers that totally avoid me like the plague...
I usually will conceal carry just to keep the looks from happening...
My favorite carry:
Inside a fanny pack. Completely discreet, year round use, always fashionable.
Sometimes I carry a handgun in an Uncle Mike's inside the pant holster that I tuck into my right front pocket and let the belt clip hook on the outside of my pocket. Not only does this let you sit in a car comfortably, but with a slightly loose T-shirt it looks like nothing more than a pager or a cell phone...
jimi
"A well regulated militia" is NOT the National Guard NOR is it a bunch of beer-swilling camouflage wearing yay-hoos spouting off about gun rights.
It consists of "we, the people" therefore, "the right of the people to keep and bear arms" guarantees that there will never be a time when a citizen of the United States has to say:
"I wish I had a gun to defend my liberty and my life."