ADulay
Regular Member
All,
Just got back home from my annual Sturgis motorcycle run and western states vacation.
As I open carry daily here in Florida, but with the usual restrictions, it was a very welcome change to just be able to put the gun on and go about my daily business in the several states that we traveled through.
After "hiding" everything while passing through Illinois, we hit Kansas and I put the gun back on for good.
No problems at fuel stops, food stops or anyplace else we visited.
The Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio. All run in full, daily open carry ON A MOTORCYCLE.
This means the hotels, rest stops and restaurants, morning lobby breakfasts, Wal-Marts, motorcycle shops, grocery stores and all that.
Only one single person even asked me about my Glock and it was in New Mexico at a truck stop where we had decided to stop for a real dinner for a change. I believe the reason she asked "for a badge" was to confirm we we're about to get the 50% meal discount!!
I casually explained to her that open carry was lawful in New Mexico and she could ask that state trooper over there (other side of the seating area) and he'll confirm it. She said she didn't know that and was thankful for the answer. She gave us all the discount anyway and I was the only one with the gun!
Gentlemen, I've said it 100's of times before in all of the gun forums. Open carry is the most comfortable way to carry a gun and NOBODY will care that you are doing it, especially if it passes here in Florida and it's all over the news.
My only regret was that I was slightly out of place out west carrying the Glock when I should have been carrying some kind of single action .45 or similar!!!
So, two full weeks of 24/7 open carry and ZERO problems. I even talked with a New Mexico State Trooper at a gas station in Taos and he never even gave it a second look.
AD (full time open carry advocate)
Just got back home from my annual Sturgis motorcycle run and western states vacation.
As I open carry daily here in Florida, but with the usual restrictions, it was a very welcome change to just be able to put the gun on and go about my daily business in the several states that we traveled through.
After "hiding" everything while passing through Illinois, we hit Kansas and I put the gun back on for good.
No problems at fuel stops, food stops or anyplace else we visited.
The Dakotas, Wyoming, Colorado, New Mexico, Indiana, Kentucky, Ohio. All run in full, daily open carry ON A MOTORCYCLE.
This means the hotels, rest stops and restaurants, morning lobby breakfasts, Wal-Marts, motorcycle shops, grocery stores and all that.
Only one single person even asked me about my Glock and it was in New Mexico at a truck stop where we had decided to stop for a real dinner for a change. I believe the reason she asked "for a badge" was to confirm we we're about to get the 50% meal discount!!
I casually explained to her that open carry was lawful in New Mexico and she could ask that state trooper over there (other side of the seating area) and he'll confirm it. She said she didn't know that and was thankful for the answer. She gave us all the discount anyway and I was the only one with the gun!
Gentlemen, I've said it 100's of times before in all of the gun forums. Open carry is the most comfortable way to carry a gun and NOBODY will care that you are doing it, especially if it passes here in Florida and it's all over the news.
My only regret was that I was slightly out of place out west carrying the Glock when I should have been carrying some kind of single action .45 or similar!!!
So, two full weeks of 24/7 open carry and ZERO problems. I even talked with a New Mexico State Trooper at a gas station in Taos and he never even gave it a second look.
AD (full time open carry advocate)