concealed carry used to be a crime a lot of places, but that is changing or has changed.
It was assumed that if you hid it, you had nefarious reasons.
Yes, the fact that concealed carry was illegal in the past, and now requires a permit from the state (in most of the states), gets to the point I'm trying to make.
The point is: The right to openly carry a gun comes from the 2nd amendment, you don't need a permit from the state to do so.
Since this is not the case with concealed carry (states can and mostly do require you to get a permit), it looks to me as though some in the media are either complete morons or intentionally using the term "concealed carry" in stories about this case to confuse the issue.