Open Carry vs. Concealed Carry

the avg LEO may have "more time" with a pistol, but not necessarily more experience. Anyone else remember the guy that had the ND when showing his gun to a classroom full of kids? neither civilian nor vet has a monopoly on a case of the dumbass

 

Open carry in Florida is illegal in most instances with the exception of language in statutes allowing open carry when camping or fishing. Fla Legislature almost passed open carry a couple of years ago but just couldn't quite “pull the trigger” - pun intended. Personally, I prefer concealed carry anyway.

 

and he gamely finished his spiel before the ambulance got there. If you've ever seen the whole video, he's a bigger dumbass than you think

 

TX has OC of long guns, but only OC of handguns when you have an LTC. This year is the closest we have to constitutional carry, hopefully it passes

 

the version I recently saw went for close to 10min I think. It was hilariously painful

 

A Vet I know shot himself point blank through the left femur while handling a 45.

 

Most of it depends on how much range time the individual has had, how recently, and what type of range. Absolutely a quickly perishable skill. Handling a firearm smartly requires good training and putting lots of rounds through it regularly. Dumbassery can be poor judgment, lack of training / experience, or some combination of both. Safety complacency is definitely a real thing too. You read about it almost daily.

 

Here in Kentucky we have always had open carry and in glove box carry legally. The glove box in your car is considered an extention of your home. We have cdwp good in 35 states and recently passed in state constitutional carry. Its even against the law for an employer to forbid you from having a gun in your car on company property.

 

Have to agree.. My AF wife was deployed during Desert Storm... Deployed to the pubs in Germany and UK basically as she was a nurse... I had more rifle time at SWAT trainings than she did as enlisted...The military has a lot more faces than Rambo mullets with heavy machineguns...

 

it's gotten to the point I trust him about as far as I can roll him.

 

In my day Qatar was a hazardous duty combat zone but military based there could not be armed unless military LE. Due to agreement with host country or due to cognizant service I never knew.

 

Well I wish we were more like Texas and a lot less like DC here in VA.

 

Me and the wife are new to the Ltc we’re in the application process right now I ve been putting it off for a long time

 

I live in Colorado and unfortunately we seem to be determined to stay at the top of the list of mass shootings. Columbine, Aurora, Boulder... It sucks that I feel the need to protect myself even when going to the grocery store, but that's the world we live in now.

We had an FBI agent dancing at a club try to do a flip and lose his concealed service weapon which hit the floor, went off, and hit a patron in the leg. And how many times had a cop shot someone and claimed they meant to taste them instead? LE does NOT automatically equal gun smarts...