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Oldgringo wrote:
Keith B wrote:
Beiruty wrote:
philip964 wrote:http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/09 ... he-police/

More testing of Constitutional rights or seeing if you can get an interesting video at the expense of the police.

My assumption is that producing an ID is not required, but would you need to identify yourself if asked.
The Sherif is Pro 2nA, but had to explain whey his guys were called on the scene.
Was the police chief of Marshfield. Marshfield is a small town northeast of Springfield, MO on I-44. While Missouri is open carry as a state, individual municipalities can set ordinances prohibiting it. Marshfield doesn't have one, but several do. But, as you can see, open carry on private property can definitely be restricted and Walmart wanted them to leave. Many stores will not confront someone if they want you to not open carry and will let the LEO's deal with it. They were not arrested, but they were checked out and asked to not go back in carrying openly.

And, while Missouri has always been a legal open carry state, you can see why it is rarely practiced.
5 years ago in CO Springs I'd see men open carrying quite frequently. no alarms there.

I suspect that is the case in many OC states; e.g., Colorado and Montana.

SewTexas

OK, I read the law differently than the chief does...it doesn't say "if a person is alarmed" then there is a problem it says

(1) He unreasonably and knowingly disturbs or alarms another person or persons by:

to me that means the carrier "knowingly" alarms someone. that means he does something on purpose to cause alarm, that's got to be more than just carrying the gun, it could be putting his hand on it, or whatever, but he's got to actually do something "unreasonable" and "knowingly"....that's what it says....it doesn't say, "wellllll, you can carry unless someone is afraid of the gun"

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