Re: exhibiting, "brandishing" a firearm (I.e. 571.303.1, 571.037
Okay, let's ask the question.. What exactly is considered "angry or threatening manner?"
In any context of the phrase, this must mean the intentional "act of drawing the weapon in such a manner as to be deemed hostile with intent to wound or kill; otherwise the affirmation of intent to display the weapon in a manner that would result in a "clear act of aggression with intent to harm or kill."
Being a civilian carrying a weapon on my hip, I do not get to decide what the Police or another person see as "angry or threatening" because everyone has a different perspective on what they consider "angry or threatening." Just as a normal unarmed person would react with fright or fear; a Police officer would react in a "defensive" posture by drawing, perhaps even discharging his weapon in such a circumstance thereby rendering the person "displaying (I.e. exhibiting the weapon) a "dead duck." So, given that circumstance, "exhibiting (I.e. the "unlawful" display of the weapon in the hand, or the direct "act" of removing the weapon from a holster) is called "brandishing" the weapon.