ghostrider
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I did a search and didn't find much addressing this.
Seems to me that this would make OC, as well as inadvertant flashing of concealed carry peice illegal in CO. How is CO an OC state when they have a law against open display of a deadly weapon?
I did a search and didn't find much addressing this.
Colorado 18-9-106. Disorderly conduct.
(1) A person commits disorderly conduct if he or she intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly:
(f) Not being a peace officer, displays a deadly weapon, displays any article used or fashioned in a manner to cause a person to reasonably believe that the article is a deadly weapon, or represents verbally or otherwise that he or she is armed with a deadly weapon in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm.
(3) An offense under…(1) (f) of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor.
Reading this law, one could almost conclude that one could be charged with DC for the nothing more than holstered OC. This law appears to give broad discretion to LE as a tool for restricting OC, as OC is "displaying a deadly weapon", and can "cause a person to reasonably believe that the article is a deadly weapon". (1) A person commits disorderly conduct if he or she intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly:
(f) Not being a peace officer, displays a deadly weapon, displays any article used or fashioned in a manner to cause a person to reasonably believe that the article is a deadly weapon, or represents verbally or otherwise that he or she is armed with a deadly weapon in a public place in a manner calculated to alarm.
(3) An offense under…(1) (f) of this section is a class 2 misdemeanor.
Seems to me that this would make OC, as well as inadvertant flashing of concealed carry peice illegal in CO. How is CO an OC state when they have a law against open display of a deadly weapon?