siglite
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So, my brother sends me a text: "JUST GOT HARRASSED BY YOUNGSTOWN COPS"
I send back: "What about?"
response: "OPEN CARRY"
Me: "Where were you?"
Response: "ON MY PORCH"
I send: "dude, call me with details."
And this is what he relays to me, giggling the whole time. Stuff in parentheses is my commentary.
Good lord. I mean, my brother thought the whole thing was funny. He was laughing the whole time he was relaying this to me. We were both quite incredulous. Sheesh. So... I guess this is a warning to folks in Youngstown, OH, popo wants to be the only ones open carrying.
I send back: "What about?"
response: "OPEN CARRY"
Me: "Where were you?"
Response: "ON MY PORCH"
I send: "dude, call me with details."
And this is what he relays to me, giggling the whole time. Stuff in parentheses is my commentary.
So the cops are down the street
noticed me with a firearm
motioned for me to come down the street to them.
Bro: "Sir, how can I help you"
Cop: "You're supposed to inform us that you're carrying a firearm" (WHILE OPEN CARRYING???)
Cop: "You know we can arrest you for not informing me that you're carrying a gun?"
Bro: "You obviously saw it, because that's why you called me down here." (A-DERRRRR, here's your sign)
Cop: "Let me see your CC permit" (Why? CC Permit not required in OH for open carry)
Cop: "Do you know that since you're open carrying, you can cause panic.. then they have to respond with weapons drawn because you have a gun?"
Cop: "Why do you feel the need to open carry?"
Bro: "So people understand that I have a firearm and I'll defend myself"
Cop: "Then when you're not home, they'll just break in and rob your guns"
-- CCW comes back over the radio valid (moot point)
Cop: "Take your shirt, cover your gun, keep it concealed."
cop continues about kids, causing panic etc... criminals will know you have guns.
Cop: "we can arrest you for not informing us that you're carrying a gun."
I decide to not press the issue, argue the law, or any logical points with him, and let him continue to lecture. At the end of all this, he tells me he's glad I'm carrying, and that if he was ever in a bind, he hopes I'd help him out. (What???? Why? Because you harrassed him?)
Good lord. I mean, my brother thought the whole thing was funny. He was laughing the whole time he was relaying this to me. We were both quite incredulous. Sheesh. So... I guess this is a warning to folks in Youngstown, OH, popo wants to be the only ones open carrying.