You betcha!
Posted on 10/31/2005 9:43:58 AM PST by neverdem
Thank you.
Why? Because I agree with the quoted firearms instructor and New Hampshire Firearms Coalition officer that "Though it is legal to carry a gun in plain view, “open-carry is not a bright idea.”"?
You seem to be confusing an assertion that something is stupid, with an assertion that it ought to be illegal. Back to reading comprehension class for you.
Ouch! Check your attitude(s).
Free Staters are only scary to people who are against a real restoration of Federalism.The FSP and LP are also scary to people (in NH and elsewhere) who feel their plank on the elimination of free tax-funded public education will throw this country into a new dark age.
"Thanks Top...
They didn't use that expression when I was in."
That's what I get for spending time around Navy types. "Elephant cages" and such!
Take care,
Top sends
Yep! A short form, a phone call, and a 'have fun shooting'!
Oh, and the painfull part of handing over the money! Im thinkin about buying a new gun within the next few weeks. Been looking into a bushmaster.
You betcha!
Indeed. Why, anyone who wants to steal a gun for their own use need only ambush an armed/uniformed cop and take his.
But there does not seem to be much of an epidemic of such incidents- yet. Perhaps only some citizens are fully equal to others....
The Founding Fathers understood this but I am convinced they were the last ones.
I challenge anyone to find a large organization, of any type, government, private, church etc. that does not abuse their power simply because they became powerful.
Paging Lord Acton!
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Another correspondant pointed out that the police response would have been the same, or worse, if I had printed, or had been purposefully carrying openly in a Bianci thumb-break hip holster, so Alan Rice's "extremely poor judgement" comment on the style of holster I was using that evening misses the point entirely.
Concur. Rice's comments about holster selection echo others I've heard from self-importantinstructors about the *only* sort of equipment that ought to be used by handgun carriers, whether open or concealed, that all too often for some reason happens to coincide with the style/make of holster sold in said instructor's gun shop or by an associated pal.
Agency restrictions often follow similar influences, though the current military and contractor restrictions in Iraq prohibiting horizontal-carry shoulder rigs resulted from actual injury-producing incidents. And horizontal-carry Small-of-Back *SOB* belt rigs offer the same sort of possibility.
[Though perhaps not the meaning intended....]
Especially since he had his nose buried in a book.
Especially since he had his nose buried in a book.
Y'know these incidents -- seem to me -- all based upon a series of unfortunate (& rare) circumstances which led up to each of the encounters with LEOs.
Why the LEOs -- of all people -- aren't up to speed regarding laws governing firearm possession in the very state they're working is quite frankly beyond me.
Be that as it may it'd appear that's precisely what's happening, eh?
I guess what I find the most bothersome in each incident was after IDs had been produced in compliance with LEO's demand(s) they seemed to not want to let it go, deliberately choosing to antagonize the (now known) law abiding citizen.
Apparently LEOs in NH no longer can differentiate between a genuine "criminal" and a law abiding citizen, anymore.
...& worrisome for a a whole host of reasons.
Absolutely, and I don't say that to insult anyone. We all have to take other peoples experience, good or bad, and learn from it.
Glad someone agrees.
Bottom line is: If you're carrying exposed, in an open top holster, in the small of your back, in a crowded store while you're distracted, you are inviting disaster!
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