Something like this holster that has a location for the magazine.
Posted on 01/12/2010 4:15:07 AM PST by marktwain
BAKERSFIELD, Calif. -- A Kern County man is testing his Second Amendment right to bear arms.
Rafael Esqueda said he has been visiting different public places over the past week with his gun on his belt.
"We can openly carry in California," he said. "The firearm has to be unloaded in plain view, and the magazine, which is an integral part of the firearm, have to be exposed, also."
In an effort to promote his platform, he, and about four of his friends, all showed up at River Walk Park on Sunday afternoon with their guns exposed. Eyewitness News was there to capture reactions from parkgoers and the event that was to follow.
One family who was at the park fishing with children and grandchildren said they didn't feel comfortable with the guns out. Sandra Cantu is a grandmother and thought what Esqueda was doing was not right.
"I have a lot of grandkids, and I wouldn't want them to do that," she said. "It's showing a mixed message that they could carry them."
About 20 minutes after Esqueda arrived, Bakersfield police arrived and informed him that it was against city code to carry guns in a city park. Esqueda complied and told Eyewitness News that he "learned something new."
He went onto say, "No problems, no arrest, nobody got shot or murdered."
(Excerpt) Read more at bakersfieldnow.com ...
Dude has balls doing that in Kahleeforhnee-ah.
You can only do that in America but here....
He is going to get slapped down, Hard.
It may cause havoc among the sheeple, and an innocent person may end up getting killed by an inept policeman, but overall I approve. It's good for society.
>> That’s about as opposite as you can get.
Yes, I know, Citizen.
RoadGumby, you are very defensive this morning.
The idea was to take the typical lib rationale and turn it back on them. It seems to be ok for their causes, to say, “you don’t like it, don’t do it.” In their cases, this reasoning extends even to murder.
What is the point of carrying an unloaded weapon?
Ask the California politicians who created the asinine California gun laws in the first place.
My point is that California is wrong and concealed carry is preferrable and more effective than open.
I actually find open carry to be weird. It’s got to be extremely unnerving for many, many people and creates an odd dynamic, in my opinion. Concealed carry is preferable because ignorance on the part of those who would be unnerved is bliss. Why make them crazy and even more anti-gun than they might already be?
I don’t know what the stats indicate but intuitively, it makes perfect sense that criminals will be on their heels when the possibility exists that would be victims may, in fact, have the ability to defend themselves. In California or any other open carry state, no sidearm = easy target.
The whole point of the open carry movement is to inoculate the "nervous Nellies" so as to have them NOT see someone openly carrying a gun as "scary".
Criminals carry concealed.
An odd dynamic? No doubt. But liberals will get used to it. We must not let them set the agenda for our lives any longer, as they view the world as a child would.
Ok, that is what I have too, but did not know if that met the definition of “exposed” magazine. Most of it is coverend.
A hammer only becomes an assault hammer in the hands of an assault carpenter. Never mess with a carpenter who has his tools with him.
Ah! the mexifornian Barney Fife Gun Law...
The Senor Fife law..
-OR- Aunt Bea Protection Act..
This woman is an idiot! The message isn't mixed at all. It's very plainly that there is nothing wrong with carrying. Her grandkids probably already realize this. She's the one who needs her thinking adjusted. If she's trying to suggest that open carry is somehow encouraging her grandkids to become gang bangers she's entirely off base.
You can carry a loaded mag on you, so you could be ready to go in 4-5 seconds. Not ideal, I grant you, but it's a start. Plus if enough people do this, and the public stops associating legal guns with blood in the streets, maybe the laws can be revised to restore sanity.
If that's the point its doomed to failure, in my opinion. Nervous Nellies are nervous Nellies and they won't change. That's just the way it is.
Salt only becomes Assault Salt in the hands of a salt shaker.
Lot's of data that says you're wrong. Even deeply seated psychological phobias can be removed. But this is just a question of reversing brainwashing by education.
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