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only time i've ever seen a cop while walking around open carrying was while attending a gun show. at the small manassas show (at the fairgrounds) a cop saw me and didn't say anything. same happened at the fredericksburg, dale city, and chantilly shows in years past.
i did get pulled over for dead tags in fairfax. i was open carrying as was a friend of mine who was sitting in the passenger seat. the vehicle i was driving was my mothers and i wasn't aware of the expired license plates so he let me go with a written warning. he had to have seen my gun. i'm left handed so i keep my wallet in my left back pocket and i had to sort of lift myself up out of my seat to get to my wallet. when i did so, i basically pointed my left hip out the window, just to make sure he saw it. the cop didn't say a word about the gun i was wearing or the rifle cases that were visible in the cargo area of the SUV. when he looked in the back area,i think he was just looking for people more than anything else. just the two of us were in the vehicle and both of us were buckled up.