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Open carrying a blue gun in downtown Seattle legal?

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GeronimoScott

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Hey all I am making my first post to ask a question I can't find a clear cut answer too.

I design and make my own kydex pistol holsters. I am attending a GoRuck Challenge here soon and I want to torture test one of my holsters during this event. I want to wear my holster unconcealed with a blue gun in it. In this case the blue gun with be a Glock 17 with a TLR-1 pistol light attached. I have a valid Washington CPL, License,etc, fully legal. Is there any reason I should be worried about the legality of doing so as we ruck in and around the city of Seattle?

Thanks guys/gals I've been trolling this site for a while and learned a great deal of valuable information and look forward to adding to the community.

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slapmonkay

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Legally, your fine.

Do I think you will get hassled, possibly.

Do I think you should carry a real gun, yes. At least concealed somewhere, to each their own though.
 
EMNofSeattle

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It depends upon the "blue gun" in question, if it's a "blue gun" like a molded rubber training gun used to practice drills and holster draws I don't think there's anything at all against it.

some makers such as glockmake "blue guns" that discharge paintballs for practice. you would be violating SMC 12A.14.083 for carrying one of them. and since it doesn't deal with actual firearms the ordinance is not preempted.
 
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perhaps the holster testing will end up getting a real pistol dirtied up for no reason. id use a fake so i wouldnt have to clean the real thing.
 
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Metalhead47 said:
Perhaps since his goal is to test an unproven holster during a very physical activity he doesn't trust it with a real gun?
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bmg50cal said:
Blue guns are better for molding kydex holsters, red guns tend to be oversize compared to their real counterparts.
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Both exactly right. Thanks!

EMNofSeattle said:
It depends upon the "blue gun" in question, if it's a "blue gun" like a molded rubber training gun used to practice drills and holster draws I don't think there's anything at all against it.

some makers such as glockmake "blue guns" that discharge paintballs for practice. you would be violating SMC 12A.14.083 for carrying one of them. and since it doesn't deal with actual firearms the ordinance is not preempted.
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Yep just molded blue rubber. Blue for above reason. Thanks good to know about the sim round law also.

PFC HALE said:
perhaps the holster testing will end up getting a real pistol dirtied up for no reason. id use a fake so i wouldnt have to clean the real thing.
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Exactly. Plus I'm going to be excessively rough with the holster just for ***** and giggles. There not being a weapon I care about in it allows me more abusive freedom :banana:

Sounds like I'm good to go! I'll post back if anything wacky or interesting happens :lol:

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Freedom1Man

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tombrewster421 said:
It's a grammar Nazi thing. The difference between your and you're.
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It's the use of the English language thing.

We are the same people that read laws to understand their meaning, correct?

If we cannot understand the even the correct use of there, their, they're, your, you're, were, where, wear, heard, herd, to, too, and two then how can we be expected to understand other words that are not as commonly used?

Note that in Washington there was a change from a Concealed Weapons License to a Concealed Pistol License which changes the meaning of the license.

Besides the Nazis were the German National Socialist Worker's Party and they spoke German which is a more grammatically exacting language.

Where as in English, unlike Latin (one of the origin languages for the English language), it is fine to end a sentence with a preposition. Gun control is hitting what you aim at.

Also, "you're fine" means something completely different from "your fine." Since the word "fine" has a different meaning depending on how it is used.

This is important for all of us to understand if we are going to use the laws governing our lives to be able to defend and flex our rights at any hour. If we gloss over meanings like that in our daily lives then we will also do so when we open up a law book and try to understand what is written there. We will also miss all the fnords in the printed media.
 
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Freedom1Man said:
It's the use of the English language thing.

We are the same people that read laws to understand their meaning, correct?

If we cannot understand the even the correct use of there, their, they're, your, you're, were, where, wear, heard, herd, to, too, and two then how can we be expected to understand other words that are not as commonly used?

Note that in Washington there was a change from a Concealed Weapons License to a Concealed Pistol License which changes the meaning of the license.

Besides the Nazis were the German National Socialist Worker's Party and they spoke German which is a more grammatically exacting language.

Where as in English, unlike Latin (one of the origin languages for the English language), it is fine to end a sentence with a preposition. Gun control is hitting what you aim at.

Also, "you're fine" means something completely different from "your fine." Since the word "fine" has a different meaning depending on how it is used.

This is important for all of us to understand if we are going to use the laws governing our lives to be able to defend and flex our rights at any hour. If we gloss over meanings like that in our daily lives then we will also do so when we open up a law book and try to understand what is written there. We will also miss all the fnords in the printed media.
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Oh I understand that and wasn't faulting you for it. Grammar nazi is an expression relating to a person that cares enough to correct others poor use of the language. It's not referring to Germans.

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