esavinon51
Regular Member
Open Carrying a loaded magazine in a pouch legal or illegal?
Very much legal.
Do you know where I'd be able to find that in §790? I certainly think that packing mag clips openly would be very deterrent in nature.
Maybe people in Florida should wear pro-open carry T shirts or buttons decalring they are carrying a concealed handgun - that might be the only sort of "open carry" we will have for a while.
So this means I don't have to hold my button up shirt over my gun as I walk into a store with the wind blowing? I wear OWB with a button up, and I find myself constantly holding it as I walk from my car to stores as to not let the wind show my gun.
It means whatever you want it to mean. In the Amerikan police state in 2011, what matters is what enforcement drones think it means. At a minimum, briefly implies more than incidental or accidental.
One could make a point for wearing an open button up shirt, which might blow up but is down and covers 99% of the time would seem to qualify. After all, 30 seconds to walk into a store?
But wearing a wide scarf, or a muffler, which only sometimes dangled in front of the HG but mostly was elsewhere would not qualify.
I'd look for something in the statute about 'intentional or unintentional' display of an accidental nature, (like shirt riding up). If it doesn't cover it, you might get stopper or even arrested, but they couldn't convict you absent other charges, istm. IANAL.
A 'good' LEO would say 'hey, man, button up your shirt, you're showing'. A not so agreeable one might say 'hey, you're flashing your gun and know it, I'm pulling your permit until you learn to cover up all the time'.
It's a gamble, I suppose.
A LEO has no authority to "pull anyone's permit", and violation of either 790.053 or 790.10 does not constitute a felony, therefore in neither case is one's license at risk.
Maybe people in Florida should wear pro-open carry T shirts or buttons decalring they are carrying a concealed handgun - that might be the only sort of "open carry" we will have for a while.
Something like "proud carrier of a concealed weapon -- proud supporter of OC [no definitions, just OC]-- with a link to Floridacarry or to here." Innocuous but to the point. Maybe a silkscreened 1911 underneath would help get the point across to those in our state who "no speeekie Ingleesh."
I'd buy it. Make mine OD green.
One could make a point for wearing an open button up shirt, which might blow up but is down and covers 99% of the time would seem to qualify. After all, 30 seconds to walk into a store?
But wearing a wide scarf, or a muffler, which only sometimes dangled in front of the HG but mostly was elsewhere would not qualify.