And those officers were from Florida. You cannot open carry in Florida.At the Bloomberg/MAIG/No More Names event in Cincy on Saturday, we ran into a lot of LEO's that came in for the convention. I talked to around a dozen in total and NONE of them were aware that Ohio was an open carry state, except for one from Arizona.
He thanked us.
As we were leaving the event, four of these visiting LEO's asked us where the beer bash was, thinking we were LEO's. When we corrected them, one of them said to another, and I quote, "You mean I could be open carrying? Why didn't you tell me? Where the gun store at?"
OK, so now you've got us interested... Tell us how the conversation went!Funny this subject came up. Sunday night I made a brief "pit stop" at the Covington Ky. Radisson Hotel. (Hey I was just coming back from the OFCC shindig 130 plus miles to the north, was heading elsewhere in Covington for a meal, and that Radisson has very clean restrooms.) Anyway I saw Illinois 'FOP' branded license plates on several cars before entering and remembered there was a national convention starting up in the area. So, my walking to and from the comfort break was accomplished in OC fashion. You wanna open some eyes and drop a few jaws, open carry in the midst of police officers visiting from Illinois.
An hour or so later some of the same folks saw me again near the restaurant I'd dined in and they started asking questions...not in any official capacity of course, it was more like they had figured out they were in a place much different from their homeland and wanted to LEARN something.
They were also interested in where to purchase certain federally regulated and taxed items that are not represented by the letters 'F' or 'E' in BATFE, as Kentucky's prices on such are WAY better than in Illinois. That, they had apparently researched before the journey.