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Honestly, I don't think you can change it. In OC states, like MI, people are being stopped and detained for OC where the public considers it unusual.

With all the media attention on firearm related violence and the increase (I think) in public area shootings, it's simply a fact that the public is going to have concerns when seeing a weapon. I think you'll find this opinion present on this forum too...

And honestly, I feel for LEOs on this issue too. The day that they get a call and ignore it because "OC is legal" and there is a blood-bath, someone's LEO head will roll.

It boggles my mind a bit that hidden is OK, but I guess that's "what you don't know"....

We're at a point where things might have to change. OC a firearm where legal and you're going to be stopped. You may be arrested. Yet, technically speaking, you've done nothing wrong in most cases.

Cedar Park Dad wrote: Agreed. Its absolutely peaceful, nonalarming, and in line with time honored traditions of protest.

I agree with 2/3 of this.
The "non-alarming" part gets me.... Look, if you schedule a protest, carry signs, and do it in a place where like the capital where you'd expect to see political speech, some people are going to be "alarmed" at the sight of firearms.

People that do things to intentionally alarm are doing it wrong. It's all that space in between that causes difficulty. And the fact that things that alarm you may or may not alarm me at all.

There certainly are some people that want the in-your-face conflict. And many of them are baiting law enforcement. Law enforcement needs to not take the bait, unless a real law is broken.