Well said gale, I too never open carry. I like that's it's legal in case I have a wardrobe malfunction and my gun happens to peak out but I don't purposely open carry for all the reasons you mentioned. Same with shirts etc. I do wear a gun hat now and then.
I even find myself shocked and alertness level increases immensely when I see open carry. I'm all for it but I'm as much a gun guy as anybody and it's still rare enough that it gets my attention.
We get calls whenever someone is seen open carrying. Usually they are a group of 2 or more with kind of an in your face attitude to cops.
We've even in the past located them and strategically placed a bunch of officers in plain clothes blatantly open carrying to pass them or intercept them without any contact. Usually they are videoing the whole time hoping to get a cop all tied up.
Doesn't work for us, they are usually shocked when they see us just walking by like business as usual.
But you'll get contacted a lot while open carrying, makes the sheeples and even some gun people kind of alarmed.
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