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Legend_AB wrote:
Decoligny wrote:
N6ATF wrote:
What if you open carry your magazines but lock unload conceal carry your gun?
LUCC is legal per PC 12026.1 and 12026.2 IIRC.
12026.1 deals with it being legal to LUCC in a motor vehicle.
12026.2 however, deals with non-motor vehicular transport. The exceptions are specifically limited to the locations listed in 12026.2, going to, and coming from.
Just walking around and not heading to/from one of the listed locations would be a violation of PC 12025, carry a concealed weapon.
Yes, but remember that you don't
have to talk to the police. There is no way for them to know that you are LUCC, where you came from or where you are going unless you tell them.
If you have "openly carried magazines" but no openly carried firearm, I would probably think that would be enough reasonable suspiscion for an officer to think that you have a firearm upon your person. That leaves the officer two possible lines of thought. First, you have a CCW (unlikely), which he can ask to see. If you tell him that you don't, his second line of thought would be, concealed firearm + no CCW,12025 violation, probable cause for a search.
If he finds a locked container, he would then have probable cause to assume that it contained a firearm due to the presence of the magazines. At this point, he would have the authority to do a 12031(e) check.
There is a very slight chance that the officer is familiar enough with the exemption listed in 12026.2 to know whether or not you are within walking distance of any of the exempted locations. He would probably make an arrest for 12025 violation.
Of course you don't tell the police anything that they can use against you.
You may beat the charge in court, but you won't beat the ride in cuffs, or the stay in jail, or paying bail, or paying a lawyer to defend you.
If you are going to LUCC, please limit it to actually transporting to/from the listed locations. Also don't "advertise" by displaying openly carried magazines, this only invites LEOs to search for a concealed firearm.Don'tknowingly violate the law.