Wow. Interesting to see that my thread is still going strong after 38 pages.
You know what you guys should try? Get a bunch of yourselves together with your AR and AK pattern rifles and just, you know, walk into a fast food joint for lunch. I think that would be a great idea!
Sarcasm not allowed?
OCed for the first time in OR today. We bought property in Wilderville and have not moved yet from VA but come out to OR twice or so a year. Got my CHL after our last visit and decided to OC on this trip. Some stares at Jimmy's in Grants Pass but no comments.
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Tuesday night, open carried my FN Five Seven and my Wilkinson Arms "Linda" 9mm pistol (slung) to the Ashland City Council meeting to oppose the "loaded carry ban" that was on the agenda. My GF also OC'd, as did several others.
Had one anti remark about the inverse relationship between the size of my Linda and the size of my male anatomy. Such mature "arguments" they have.
The ordinance died on a 5-1 vote and the proposing Councilor got her standard armed escort to her car. Oh the irony of attempting to ban the "common people" from being able to defend themselves while taking advantage of special privileges like spending the tax payers dollars to have a personal police escort.
Perhaps because they were not full auto, but rather required input/direction from their handlersWhat all those loaded guns in one room and there wasn't a blood-bath? How can that be....
Out with the GF today doing some low speed practice on her motorcycle for this weekends upcoming Team Oregon (required for a license now) riders course. We dropped off her bike at her house and headed to dinner. Driving along and there is a small group of young people (later determined to be two males and three females on foot, one unknown on a bike, and a dog) in the left lane and walking away from something they were looking and yelling at. As I passed them, I caught sight of someone on the ground, up against the fence, on the sidewalk.
I turned the bike around and the people were some distance down the street. Pulled up to find a young man in what I'd describe as a kneeling fetal position but with an arm dangling over the fence he was crumpled against. I'll tell you, at times like that, it's damn comforting to know that not only do I have a sidearm but that my GF is packing as well and has my back.
After an initial assessment of the down man (talking, in pain, no visible injuries or bleeding) I called 9-1-1, described the situation, and asked the victim for information the dispatcher wanted which included that he was 19, had been in the hospital for back injuries the night before, had been beaten by these same people three times previously, and that he had cardiac issues.
It took FOURTEEN MINUTES for an officer to arrive!!!!!!!!!!!!
I had informed the dispatcher that my GF and I were open carry and still holstered but to please inform the responding officer(s). When they did arrive, there were no issues whatsoever over the weapons.....they were IGNORED as they should have been.
As it turns out, the police knew the "victim" and had been dealing with him as well as the alleged perpetrators for several days and that the "victim" had been going through "meth induced psychosis" with little likelihood that the story we'd been told had any truth to it but that they had the other parties detained. We were told we did the right thing and thanked for sticking around and calling them.
DAMN did it feel strange voluntarily giving my personal information to the police officer though. LOL
So, GOOD OC encounter with police wherein the sidearms were absolutely no issue (as it should be) to the MPD and they saw an OC male (rough looking motorcyclist) and an OC female, being supportive members of society.
FOURTEEN MINUTE RESPONSE though is like WOW. And that's after I arrive and made an initial assessment. Statistics for response time are generally calculated from the time the crime occurs, which if/had it been an assault, was several minutes before my arrival.
As we know, but must teach the rest of the people, ONLY YOU can protect yourself.
Watch out WTP, you keep up all these good deeds (defeating Ashland ban, helping strangers on the roadside) in southern Oregon and we'll have to pitch in an get you a cape. ;-)
Are you heading over to Baker for Hells Canyon next month?
My wife and I were shopping at a safeway store in Molalla and I was ocing my xdm when a guy next too me said, is that legal, to open carry like that.
Of course I told him, that Oregon is a open carry state and that the city of Molalla doesn't have any laws against open carry and that is was our right to bear arms.
He thought it was illegal to open carry and that he had a chl himself.
He then went to tell me it was illegal to carry in cities and on school grounds and such .
My wife thought I was going to have this big argument with him when I tried to explain he was wrong and having a chl you could carry on school grounds and inside a school, they are public buildings.
The guy argued telling me I was wrong and he got his chl through a Oregon state police officer who told him no one can carry on school grounds, it was the same as a federal building and having a chl meant you had to have your weapon concealed .
All I said then was he better read up on the Oregon gun laws and have a nice day.