desertfox
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This is a letter that I was going to send to my local DA in Los Angeles. They will respond my letter and I would like to carry the letter from the DA's office confirming the below. Any advice would be appreciated. I'd love to open carry with anyone else in the Los Angeles, Orange County area.
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Open Carry laws are of great interest to me, and in the event that I choose to Open Carry, I would like to make sure that I understand the laws and that I avoid all necessary areas as required by law.
Please correct me if I am mistaken, however I believe that I can Open Carry (carry a firearm in a holster, non-concealed, and with no ammunition attached to the gun), with the exceptions listed below (please advise if there are other exceptions that I am missing):
This is a letter that I was going to send to my local DA in Los Angeles. They will respond my letter and I would like to carry the letter from the DA's office confirming the below. Any advice would be appreciated. I'd love to open carry with anyone else in the Los Angeles, Orange County area.
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Open Carry laws are of great interest to me, and in the event that I choose to Open Carry, I would like to make sure that I understand the laws and that I avoid all necessary areas as required by law.
Please correct me if I am mistaken, however I believe that I can Open Carry (carry a firearm in a holster, non-concealed, and with no ammunition attached to the gun), with the exceptions listed below (please advise if there are other exceptions that I am missing):
- Can’t bring any firearm into state or local public buildings or to any meeting that is required to be open to the public. (PC171b[/b])
- No Loaded firearms in State Capitol, legislative offices, Governor’s or other constitutional officer’s office, or any Senate or Assembly committee hearing rooms or on State Capitol grounds, bound by 10th, L, 15th, and N Streets, Sacramento. (PC171C[/b])
- Can’t carry/possess a Loaded firearm in the Governor’s, Legislator’s, or any other constitutional officer’s residences. (PC171d[/b])
- Loaded firearm for 171c[/b] and 171d[/b] is defined as: both the firearm and ammunition for that firearm are in the immediate possession of the same person. (PC171e[/b])
- No open carry within 1000 feet of a K-12 school, “in a place that the person knows, or reasonably should know” is within 1000ft of a K-12 school, on a university (public or private) (PC626.9)
- No open carry on U.S. Postal Service Property (39 CFR 232.1 (I))
- Bringing a firearm into a “sterile area” of an Airport is a misdemeanor. A Sterile Area is an area where access is controlled through the screening of persons and property. or “sterile areas” (49 CFR 1540.111 and PC171.5)
- Can’t carry a firearm/weapon into any building or part thereof owned or leased by the Federal Government, where Federal employees are regularly present for the purpose of performing their official duties. (§930[/i][/b])[/i]
- While transporting a handgun in a vehicle, can the gun be in a locked container with the ammunition, or do they need to be locked in 2 separate containers.
- I would like to confirm that as a law abiding citizen, I am not legally obligated to show a police officer my ID, unless the officer detains me for either “reasonable suspicion” or has “probable cause.”
- With regards to PC626.9, I am assuming that I can lawfully open carry while dropping my children off and while picking them up from their pre-school.