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by ralewis
Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:00 am
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Open Carry impact
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Re: Open Carry impact

I spend a lot of time (about a month/year) in Pennsylvania. Northeast part of the state in a relatively urban area (Wilkes-Barre/Scranton). Mix of cities and small towns. It's very rare to see a no-guns sign and very few folks open carrying. Rare to see any discussion of gun issues on local news or in the local papers. PA has the highest percentage of License To Carry holders in the country but by no means a majority (something like 15%). It's a solidly Purple state that mostly votes Democrat, so it's not a hotbed of pro-gun conservatives.

Its fun to discuss all the scenarios we may encounter (LEO stops, signs, public backlash against gun folk because of open carry), but I think we'll see for the most part the same thing happen here in Texas. Few people actually open carrying, few 30.07 signs as a result (no more than the usual suspects who post 30.06), and all of this mostly be the same non-issue in Texas that it is in PA.

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