The more complicated it becomes, the less people will do it. Open carry already had numerous potential pitfalls to avoid, Now there are many more. I understand the optimist wants to say there are x amount of exemptions. But a pessimist and a realist would also see it another way. Open carry is still legal as before, but now there are more pitfalls to avoid. Lots of people have said they will or would, open carry rifles when the law takes effect. In contrast, very few have taken interest in the exemption strategy. I'm not going to say one is better than the other by virtue. I am going to take the path of least resistance though. I'd like to people to exercise their 2nd amendment rights; I have had difficulty getting people involved on simple matters; If they have to read, interpret, and adjust to all these new restrictions, they are just not going to show up, and then we lose involvement. You're strategy is not bad; It's just not a very saleable one to the marketplace.
Maybe there was some racist or even nationalist concerns that drove the firearm restrictionists back in the day, but now it is simple control. The exposed unloaded carry threatened to spark some life in a culture that the restrictionists want to see die out. The less people carrying guns around where people can see them; the less people will know they have or had any right to do so.
I have to call you on this one Save our State,
"The more complicated it becomes, the less people will do it."
This reasoning was used by the establishment in 1967 with the Mulford Act, and people bought it for about 40 years. Open Carry of firearms disappeared overnight....Then Open Carry advocacy came along a few years ago and said
"OK so you made it difficult basically stupid and ridiculous but not illegal, so we are gonna carry again and play this game."
And now the establishment does the same tactic again,
"Lets make it even more harder and more difficult basically nearly impossible to Open Carry", but they still left an opening for certain classes of people. They did this at the behest and request of LE chiefs and sheriffs so they can squash any idea of armed soverign citizenry, and exert there control over the citizenry by maintaining a police state.
This is the same type of controlling tactic used by King George, remember the Stamp Tax, the Tea Tax. Little bites and steps to control and restrict.. Remember our response? ...
"Prudence, indeed, will dictate that governments long established should not be changed for light and transient causes; and accordingly all experience hath shown that mankind are more disposed to suffer, while evils are sufferable, than to right themselves by abolishing the forms to which they are accustomed. But when a long train of abuses and usurpations, pursuing invariably the same object evinces a design to reduce them under absolute despotism, it is their right, it is their duty, to throw off such government, and to provide new guards for their future security."
If we start arguing amongst ourselves about which type of carry,and stop pushing back against the establishment, then we will fall right back into just suffering thru it. Im not advocating throwing off such government, but im saying dont take the easy way, the safe way, the path of least resistance. If we do then we become those mindless souls that just do what we are told, sheeple amongst the flock again.
I think the more complicated it becomes the more reasonable people will see it for what it is.