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tommyg wrote:Open carry is a mistake it will stir up the anti gun crowd

Owning firearms, Concealed Carry, Gun Shows, Gun Manufacturers, self defense, ect. all stir up the anti gun crowd.

tommyg wrote:A BG will go for the open carriers first

Where has this happened in the other states? Additionally it will give me more time to react to the threat while they are dealing with an OCer.

tommyg wrote:Open carry will result in more "gun free" areas

Perhaps, but as long as we leave 30.06 alone it shouldn't affect concealed carry much.

tommyg wrote:Keep your guns hidden

That should be a personal choice.

tommyg wrote:concentrate on getting rid of slaughter I mean gun free zones

Lets concentrate on improving our firearms rights on all fronts.

I don't know exactly what the legislators/candidates are asking for, I know only what Alice and Charles said which they are asking Alice to call for a stop to the long gun OC events. You can hear that in the audio link I provided above. I suspect that well planned and well organized event that is coordinated with law enforcement similar to the Alamo event would not be seen as negative. The problem with such an event it now lacks the unique flavor and the novelty has been devalued by the more common distributed marches/events.

Grisham was convicted of interfering with an officer, not for open carrying. The OCing of the rifle led to the encounter that led to the conviction.

Next session in the legislature we will be fighting at least on bill to ban long gun OC, how do I know this? Our opponents are telegraphing this as well as the fact they will try to push a universal background check bill, so that they know anyone with a gun has had a background check...

TSRA has limited political capital, and a sizable portion will be used this time to kill anti-gun bills that are introduced in response to OC. On top of that legislators are asking that the long gun OC stop, and if it doesn't it hurts our efforts and devalues political capital of ALL progun groups/efforts.

ShootDontTalk wrote:

The Annoyed Man wrote: I apologize if I missed a sit down meeting with OCT. Perhaps you can remember when and where that took place? And not to be disrespectful or argumentative, but meeting over a keyboard on the internet accomplishes nothing. I would simply point out the many repetitive discussions of OC here on this forum. Lot of mud slinging and little else. Has anyone ever called a sit-down meeting with these folks?

Actually yes, there has been a sit down phone conversation with C.J. Grisham very recently (04/28/14). This should really go to it's own thread but I guess this will be as good a place to post as any. You can find the web based audio player, and direct download link here: http://opencarryreport.com/010/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false; or you can just listen to the audio by grabbing it from here: http://traffic.libsyn.com/opencarryreport/OCR-010.mp3" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

I don't say much, but you might recognize the other parties. BTW, I would like to publicly thank thank Alice, Charles, and C.J. for their part in this effort.