If AB144 is talking of UOC rather then LOC then we should be able to OC- Loaded, as AB 144 is only about
Unloaded open carry.
And 12031-e would be gone ! Robin47
No, AB144 does NOT nullify PC 12031 which makes carrying a loaded firearm a crime in an incorporated city, or in a prohibited area of an unincorporated territory.
12031(e) is the teeth for 12031(a). Without AB144, and with 12031(e) gone, one would be able to carry loaded, albeit illegally, but the police would not have the authority to inspect the weapon, there would have to be reasonable, articulable suspicion that a crime has been or is about to be committed to conduct a search and seizure of the weapon.
Theoretically, if one could effectively reserve, protect and assert their rights from a 4A violation, then they could carry loaded and get away with it, but that is playing with fire. A police officer, under oath, could simply say you were acting suspicious, lay out some offending "narrative" and boom...your guilty. But all of this is academic because that's not what's going on here.
AB144 covers the "unloaded loophole" (to use the tyrants language) effectively making it so that simply carrying any handgun in public a crime, regardless of whether loaded or unloaded.
