A few pages back, Frankie asked where I'd seen open carry, and offered up that in his visits to OC states, he hadn't seen it.
Fair enough. He mentioned New Hampshire specificially, which is the only OC state I've actually stopped in for anything longer than gas and food, and in the week I spent there in 2006, I saw at least two or three dozen people open carrying. Granted, this was in Lancaster, not Nashua, and some of them were hiking. Others were shopping, or just hanging around the campground.
I openly carried as well while I was there, and when I did wear a cover shirt, I didn't care which way the wind blew. When I went to Shaw's for groceries one windy day, the bowling shirt I was wearing blew back exposing my pistol, and I didn't worry about it at all, especially since I was wrangling a shopping cart and a 3 year old who insisted he was big enough to walk. Got a couple of big smiles and nods in the parking lot, but maybe that was because the ladies were impressed by my rugged good looks, charming 3 year old, and huge honkin' Razorback Red conversion van with a stuffed Razorback on the dash.
But they did notice the pistol.
Over the years I've seen one or two open carriers in Tennessee and Kentucky. I never stopped for more than gas in Virginia, but the good folks at VCDL regularly carry openly in Richmond, Fairfax, Hampton Roads, Virginia Beach.... do those count as "urban" to you?
To see how many and how often, read here:
http://opencarry.mywowbb.com/forum54/
None have had their guns snatched. And yes, they do face an ongoing battle of educating the police who think they know better.
