Hello all, recently joined the site but have been a read for awhile now. Anyway onto a little issue I'm having with an open carry incident that I feel has some unique circumstances.
The other night ago I was getting home from work, got on the computer to see that a friend of mine was home from the service for leave. I decided I'd head down the road to see him since he was still awake.
Now I have opened carried before at different times but most people I'm friends with are not aware of that fact.
I was admittedly a bit tired when I arrived at his parents home, who I am also friends with due to the fact that we all are Civil War reenactors. Without thinking I unlocked my box with my mag, grabbed my pistol from it's place in plain open view, (Unloaded, action open, ) loaded it, racked the slide, made sure it was on safe, put in holster, clipped to my belt and got out. Everything was fine, I was tired and slipped a bit twice in the dark. We talked a bit, even handled the gun after it was cleared. They got tired so I took my leave and went to see someone else who I knew was still awake at that time.
Now I have been informed through an individual who are also mutual friends with the other parties, that the parents who I have known for years are thinking of pressing charges and are furious that I had a loaded gun on the property. These are people I have carried REAL guns around for years (just because it shoots a blank powder charge when we use them for reenactments does not mean they are any less real) we have even shot a modern rifle on that property in the past, let alone the dozens of times I've been there with muskets, cap n ball revolvers and the like. Also they believe was intoxicated, which I was not in anyway. I personally think the issue's are from things involving personal issues with other individuals of the reenacting community.
Any way my question is, was I in the wrong here in anyway legally?
The other night ago I was getting home from work, got on the computer to see that a friend of mine was home from the service for leave. I decided I'd head down the road to see him since he was still awake.
Now I have opened carried before at different times but most people I'm friends with are not aware of that fact.
I was admittedly a bit tired when I arrived at his parents home, who I am also friends with due to the fact that we all are Civil War reenactors. Without thinking I unlocked my box with my mag, grabbed my pistol from it's place in plain open view, (Unloaded, action open, ) loaded it, racked the slide, made sure it was on safe, put in holster, clipped to my belt and got out. Everything was fine, I was tired and slipped a bit twice in the dark. We talked a bit, even handled the gun after it was cleared. They got tired so I took my leave and went to see someone else who I knew was still awake at that time.
Now I have been informed through an individual who are also mutual friends with the other parties, that the parents who I have known for years are thinking of pressing charges and are furious that I had a loaded gun on the property. These are people I have carried REAL guns around for years (just because it shoots a blank powder charge when we use them for reenactments does not mean they are any less real) we have even shot a modern rifle on that property in the past, let alone the dozens of times I've been there with muskets, cap n ball revolvers and the like. Also they believe was intoxicated, which I was not in anyway. I personally think the issue's are from things involving personal issues with other individuals of the reenacting community.
Any way my question is, was I in the wrong here in anyway legally?
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