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Most states have adopted "Brandishing" statutes, and formally defined the scope of this violation in Statute law, which makes it MUCH more difficult to be used as a "throw around" charge that an LEO can throw at you just because he personally doesn't like the idea of lawful OC.
The few states that still have a GAttTotP violation based in Common Law are Southern States, and this violation remains on the books primarily as a Jim Crow legal vehicle through which the "authorities" may discourage minorities (or other "undesirable" types) from lawfully carrying firearms.
It is a violation based in the class-ism of 13th century English Common Law, and has been allowed to stand in the US legal system as a covert tool for the promulgation of institutionalized racism by punishing the "wrong types of people" for lawful carry...
The GAttTotP violation needs to be repealed from ALL states, and replaced with well-defined, tightly specific "brandishing" statutes, that punish people for INTENTIONALLY threatening, terrorising, or hostile display.
I'm currently working on a draft Bill to accomplish this exact thing (text based somewhat on the VA "brandishing" statute), and will be talking with my NC Representative in the next month or so about formally drafting this Bill and introducing it in the next session (not the current one) of the NC General Assembly. My local Rep. is a Democrat, but he seems to have a pretty decent 2A voting record...
