Open Carry
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HKUSP45C
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Don't walk around with your Buck knife drawn and ready .... that's the only clue I have to offer on knives.
Walk around with your firearm exposed only if you want to be the first guy shot during "the robbery". Discretion in all things is the path to an un-eventful journey.
KONY
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Obviously, find out the law in your state before attempting to open carry. If you want a quick source, go to:
www.packing.org
Enter your state (Nevada) and read up on your local laws.
Well, if open carry is the only way you can be armed then there's no other option ... In Virginia, folks have been open-carrying in alcohol-serving establishments (required by law) as well as in public without incident.
Art Eatman
Moderator In Memoriam
First off, spend some time reading up on Nevada law about carrying guns and the use of deadly force. Many county courthouses have law libraries, with the Civil Statutes. Then check city ordinances for Reno as to carrying.
Wandering out in the boonies, I doubt if open carry would really worry anybody. That's particularly true if you're sorta smiley and polite when you meet folks. I've been all over the Black Rock Desert country, back some 25 years ago, and we "toted".
Around town, if folks look at you funny, now, for carrying an apparently large knife, think how it will be with a gun. Since people at large don't see the need for open carry, they tend to think folks who do are eat up with the weirds. Most aren't, of course, but then again, some are.
And as said above, you're the first one to be shot, if a bad guy figures you're in the way of some successful Bad Thing.
Art
Wandering out in the boonies, I doubt if open carry would really worry anybody. That's particularly true if you're sorta smiley and polite when you meet folks. I've been all over the Black Rock Desert country, back some 25 years ago, and we "toted".
Around town, if folks look at you funny, now, for carrying an apparently large knife, think how it will be with a gun. Since people at large don't see the need for open carry, they tend to think folks who do are eat up with the weirds. Most aren't, of course, but then again, some are.
And as said above, you're the first one to be shot, if a bad guy figures you're in the way of some successful Bad Thing.
Art
HKUSP45C
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But if it's not ... as it is not in NV (to my limited understanding of NV law) then why?
I've heard the same question raised to a TX DPS officer in front of a Harris CO. Sheriff ..... reply? "shoot the "expletive" and pay the fine, this is Texas, not New Hampshire."
That's cavalier, I know, but the sentiment stands. If open carry is the only way you can legally go armed, and you think this is just, carry openly.
Me? ..... I'm going to be armed, laws be danged, legally of course.
bpisler
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Hopefully you'll be alert enough to
see trouble coming.Having a ccw
won't do you any good when you're
looking down the muzzle of the bad
guys gun.
see trouble coming.Having a ccw
won't do you any good when you're
looking down the muzzle of the bad
guys gun.
thorn726
Member
YEEEEEEEEEEEEHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
i would love to see a bunch of Highroaders show up at Burning Man and scare the heck out of those freaks !!!!!!!!!!!
(it is held in Black Rock desert)
as for me being alert, well i would consider myself alert. more than most. been training in martial arts, and what i would call military awearness. does anyone just sit at the coffee shop watch ppl, lol is that stalking? anyway the black rock desert. we could go there with our sidearms, and our rifles (for protection of course) lol. those god damb smelly naked hippies. ok so later guys, and you to ladies.
Otherguy Overby
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Nevada
Nevada is open carry.
Much the same as Arizona.
Just don't do it in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Boulder City or Henderson (can't remember which)
NLV and BC or Henderson have laws about carry in cars.
Don't open carry into the casinos.
With licensed concealed carry (concealed of course) you can go in the casinos.
Nevada has NO reciprocity and you have to go there to apply for the license and get the training.
see packing.org
Nevada is open carry.
Much the same as Arizona.
Just don't do it in Las Vegas, North Las Vegas and Boulder City or Henderson (can't remember which)
NLV and BC or Henderson have laws about carry in cars.
Don't open carry into the casinos.
With licensed concealed carry (concealed of course) you can go in the casinos.
Nevada has NO reciprocity and you have to go there to apply for the license and get the training.
see packing.org
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mrhuckins
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Peace love and firearms!
Hey now, I'm one of those "god damb smelly naked hippies". Proud of it too. And I'm not stoned out of my gourd either (anyone who is drunk or stoned around weapons deserves to be shot by their own weapon, and probably will be, given enough time). Furthermore, I'm not naked nearly enough of the time as far as that goes. However, I'm not so hippy that I wouldn't defend myself with deadly force, on a moments notice, should the situation warrant it. Most of my hippy friends don't understand my guns. I just tell them to shut the hell up about it, if they don't like it. After all, being a hippy is all about peace love and understanding isn't it? LOL
I believe in peace, but I don't think we will ever see world peace in our lifetime. But I'm not a niaeve hippy either. I realize that most peace throughout history has been won at the end of a sword, or the projectiles that come out of the ends of guns. And (God forbid) if psychos ever break down your door, a lecture about violence won't save your a$$, but a gun might.
On to the topic matter at hand though...I think I would rather open carry, than not carry at all. As for being in the way of a BG in a robbery....Don't walk around in situation white. You have already said that you try to be a lert, thats very good. Try to avoid dangerous places, and for heavens sake use your noggin. I'm 39, and I have been in all kinds of hellholes all around the globe, and I have yet to be in the middle of a bank robbery, or any other kind of situation where I have ever even NEEDED to worry about the BG seeing me as a target. (Serving my country in Somalia excluded.) Your most potent weapon is your brain. Use it!
Hey now, I'm one of those "god damb smelly naked hippies". Proud of it too. And I'm not stoned out of my gourd either (anyone who is drunk or stoned around weapons deserves to be shot by their own weapon, and probably will be, given enough time). Furthermore, I'm not naked nearly enough of the time as far as that goes. However, I'm not so hippy that I wouldn't defend myself with deadly force, on a moments notice, should the situation warrant it. Most of my hippy friends don't understand my guns. I just tell them to shut the hell up about it, if they don't like it. After all, being a hippy is all about peace love and understanding isn't it? LOL
I believe in peace, but I don't think we will ever see world peace in our lifetime. But I'm not a niaeve hippy either. I realize that most peace throughout history has been won at the end of a sword, or the projectiles that come out of the ends of guns. And (God forbid) if psychos ever break down your door, a lecture about violence won't save your a$$, but a gun might.On to the topic matter at hand though...I think I would rather open carry, than not carry at all. As for being in the way of a BG in a robbery....Don't walk around in situation white. You have already said that you try to be a lert, thats very good. Try to avoid dangerous places, and for heavens sake use your noggin. I'm 39, and I have been in all kinds of hellholes all around the globe, and I have yet to be in the middle of a bank robbery, or any other kind of situation where I have ever even NEEDED to worry about the BG seeing me as a target. (Serving my country in Somalia excluded.) Your most potent weapon is your brain. Use it!
dasmi
Member
http://opencarry.org/
go there.
check out the forums to read first-hand experiences from open carriers.
go there.
check out the forums to read first-hand experiences from open carriers.
Byron Quick
Moderator In Memoriam
I haven't open carried outside of hunting or rural running around since before the Georgia CCW was passed. Say about 1976. Back then I never had a problem. Didn't get weird looks even though I had long hair back then, Apparently, most people took me for an off duty cop. As long and thick as my hair was; I don't know what kind of off duty cop they took me for. But, I can say one thing...most people never even saw it. Most people are walking around oblivious to their surroundings.
I used to carry a Charter Arms Undercover revolver in the right hip pocket of my blue jeans. The wear on the denim over time left sold white wear on the hip pocket in the perfect shape of a revolver. In the days before metal detectors everywhere, I would nonchalantly walk into courthouses, police stations, and sheriff's offices while doing my job. Not one single police officer ever looked at that white bulge in my hip pocket and questioned it. And this was not something that I did two or three times. I'm talking about two or three times a week over a period of four or five years. Hundreds of times with the perfect outline of a revolver on my jeans, with an obvious bulge...no questions, no problems.
Judging from media reports, most criminals are no more observant than the usual run of folks.
I used to carry a Charter Arms Undercover revolver in the right hip pocket of my blue jeans. The wear on the denim over time left sold white wear on the hip pocket in the perfect shape of a revolver. In the days before metal detectors everywhere, I would nonchalantly walk into courthouses, police stations, and sheriff's offices while doing my job. Not one single police officer ever looked at that white bulge in my hip pocket and questioned it. And this was not something that I did two or three times. I'm talking about two or three times a week over a period of four or five years. Hundreds of times with the perfect outline of a revolver on my jeans, with an obvious bulge...no questions, no problems.
Judging from media reports, most criminals are no more observant than the usual run of folks.
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