utbagpiper
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I figure that after Independance Day, there is nary a better day to take a gun for a walk than to the polls. With my Utah Concealed Firearms Permit I am perfectly legal open carrying into a polling place and/or a government run school. How convenient that my polling place this year is at just such a government run high school.
So I OC'd my 1911, Condition One, in a paddle hoster over my slacks and dress shirt and voted before work this morning. (Company policy prohibits guns at work, so the firearm was stored elsewhere before arriving at work.)
I arrived at the school just before the first class began and so there were hordes of students running about. Nobody, including the poll workers even seemed to notice until one of the 4 poll workers--a family friend--joked to two others, "Be nice to him. He has a gun." She then asked me seriously, "What do you do that allows you to carry a gun?"
I responded briefly that my Utah CCW permit allows me to open carry a fully loaded gun, even into schools. I then cast my virtual vote (I hate the new e-voting machines, but that is probably off topic until we have solid evidence they are throwing the elections to the gun grabbers.), and was off.
And all this at a large high school in the suburbs of Salt Lake City.
I figure that after Independance Day, there is nary a better day to take a gun for a walk than to the polls. With my Utah Concealed Firearms Permit I am perfectly legal open carrying into a polling place and/or a government run school. How convenient that my polling place this year is at just such a government run high school.
So I OC'd my 1911, Condition One, in a paddle hoster over my slacks and dress shirt and voted before work this morning. (Company policy prohibits guns at work, so the firearm was stored elsewhere before arriving at work.)
I arrived at the school just before the first class began and so there were hordes of students running about. Nobody, including the poll workers even seemed to notice until one of the 4 poll workers--a family friend--joked to two others, "Be nice to him. He has a gun." She then asked me seriously, "What do you do that allows you to carry a gun?"
I responded briefly that my Utah CCW permit allows me to open carry a fully loaded gun, even into schools. I then cast my virtual vote (I hate the new e-voting machines, but that is probably off topic until we have solid evidence they are throwing the elections to the gun grabbers.), and was off.
And all this at a large high school in the suburbs of Salt Lake City.