Lord Sega
Regular Member
One reason I'm paranoid to cross state lines, I can't memorize every state/city rule, so I'm just focusing on Oregon (OC with CHL).
We really need to push for one set of laws across the US, it'll never happen, but sure would be nice.
13 Aug 2011 - Gun at parade
At 12:48 p.m. Saturday, at the Lektro Grand Land Parade in Astoria, an Astoria police officer seized a loaded handgun from Russell Jackson, 30, of Hoquiam, Wash., who was standing at the corner of 16th and Duane streets. Russell was carrying the gun in a holster and told the officer he thought that, with the exception of a few Oregon cities, it was legal to carry a gun in the open in Oregon. According to Astoria Deputy Chief of Police, an Astoria city ordinance forbids carrying a loaded firearm in the open without a concealed weapons permit.
Astoria is one "of a few Oregon cities" that has a unloaded OC ordinance, sorry Russell.
Class C Misdemeanor punishable by up to thirty (30) days confinement and/or a fine in an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00).
I'm thinking of doing a FOIA request just to get more info and see what else happened, the little blurb in the paper doesn't say he was arrested, just that the handgun was seized.
Doesn't he have to be arrested or at least cited for the weapon to be seized?
Why couldn't the LEO just have him unload to be legal with a verbal warning, or would that make too much sense?
We really need to push for one set of laws across the US, it'll never happen, but sure would be nice.
13 Aug 2011 - Gun at parade
At 12:48 p.m. Saturday, at the Lektro Grand Land Parade in Astoria, an Astoria police officer seized a loaded handgun from Russell Jackson, 30, of Hoquiam, Wash., who was standing at the corner of 16th and Duane streets. Russell was carrying the gun in a holster and told the officer he thought that, with the exception of a few Oregon cities, it was legal to carry a gun in the open in Oregon. According to Astoria Deputy Chief of Police, an Astoria city ordinance forbids carrying a loaded firearm in the open without a concealed weapons permit.
Astoria is one "of a few Oregon cities" that has a unloaded OC ordinance, sorry Russell.
Class C Misdemeanor punishable by up to thirty (30) days confinement and/or a fine in an amount not to exceed five hundred dollars ($500.00).
I'm thinking of doing a FOIA request just to get more info and see what else happened, the little blurb in the paper doesn't say he was arrested, just that the handgun was seized.
Doesn't he have to be arrested or at least cited for the weapon to be seized?
Why couldn't the LEO just have him unload to be legal with a verbal warning, or would that make too much sense?