Reminds me of a statute change about six years ago in Ohio regarding CHL's and their loaded handguns in vehicles.poppo wrote:I'm still not getting the issue. Open carry, does not mean open display on your dashboard or anywhere. As noted earlier, just cover it up as we have always been doing. A non-issue IMO.PaJ wrote:I think how to define "carrying" is the rub. The bill requires a "belt or shoulder holster". If I get in my car and want to make my weapon more accessible, I cannot put it in a holster mounted in some other fashion and have it 'open'. So now, I would have to resort to the CC laws currently in place. OC should make our lives easier, even for those who don't often open carry.
When concealed carry first passed in 2004, there were poison pill-type restrictions about how the loaded handgun had to be carried in the car by licensees. A later bill sought to remove all restrictions on how a licensee could carry their handgun in the car. A representative from the Ohio State Highway Patrol (OSHP) testified that the lack of controls would make it legal for someone to drive down the road twirling the gun on their finger or simply placing it up on the dash.
Just another variation on the "blood in the streets" hysteria that antigunners always roll out to oppose any expansion of liberty. (The OSHP is as anti gun freedom as Austin's Acevedo.)Of course, years later, there never was the blood in the streets and how licensees transported their handgun has never been an issue. Politicians still have an instinct to control when basic liberty seems to be the better answer.