Dopers in open carry states. Do you see a lot of people carrying in non-threatening environments?

[pkbites]

Wisconsin is a good open carry state. It’s legality is even recognized by a couple of state laws. And contrary to what opencarry.org says, one can open carry in a vehicle. This was confirmed by training the Attorney Generals office held for law enforcement officers.

I’ll open carry when I walk my dogs or ride my bike. But I rarely see others doing it. Saw a guy OC on a motorcycle about 6 months ago.

[bubba001]

There were a couple of open carry rallies here in Livingston county, Michigan. I was in a diner that they were doing their rally in. Lots of fat, old, white guys. One guy was wearing a tactical rig, low slung, with a bunch of extra mags. He was also extremely obese, probably 450+ lbs. I don’t think he had seen his dick in years.

[handsomeharry]

@chiroptera

Well, you might get shot by a two-year-old.

**chiroptera **for the win.

[BOOM]

@Aspenglow

I can think of only one exception: At a little rural mom 'n pop diner, the cook always had a .45 strapped on. He cooked in plain view of the patrons. It was very in-your-face and conveyed a message not conducive to comfort in a fine dining establishment. They sold shortly after to a much more relaxed proprietor. The business is thriving these days. And that’s the problem with open carry in many situations, I think. It telegraphs an aggressive message that unsettles a lot of people.

It telegraphs to me the person has esteem issues.

[HeyHomie]

Missouri is open-carry, and I’ve seen someone openly carrying a firearm exactly once. It was probably 20 years ago - in a library, of all places.

[Doctor_Jackson]

@Slow_Moving_Vehicle

I’m also in Georgia, a state so in love with their guns that one community has a law *requiring *gun ownership*. But I cannot remember the last time I saw someone open carrying, who wasn’t a LEO. Granted, I live in a near suburb of Atlanta that is firmly blue, LGBT-friendly, and liberal.

+1, except I live in an Atlanta Suburb that is firmly red, LBGT nuetral, and conservative. I have a CCW license but only carry a weapon when on my way to a firing range and never openly - always in a case. I like having the option, but can’t imagine going OC as a matter of course.

[TheSeaOtter]

@BrotherCadfael

During hunting season, all the time. All other times of the year, never.

(Vermont has no restrictions on concealed or open carry.)

That’s interesting - I grew up in Vermont, and even during hunting season, I basically never saw someone carrying in the sort of contexts the OP mentions. Oh, lots of folks had a rifle on a rack inside the cabs of their pickups, but unless they were actually hunting, practice shooting, or taking them into be serviced, they didn’t carry them around. And the only handguns I ever saw were either locked up in cabinets or being worn by on-duty police.

[astorian]

Austin is a bit different from most Texas cities, but for what its worth… I almost never see anyone who’s not a cop or Travis County deputy carrying a gun openly here.

[Ethilrist]

Very rarely here in Minnesota, only once in California when I was a kid. We were camping in the Sierras and there was a dad with a pistol on his hip; he said it was loaded with shot because there had been rattlesnakes in the area.

[race_to_the_bottom]

@MindsEye_Watering

I’m in Georgia here - I see people with guns all the time at my local Walmart. Don’t know what is so threatening about a Walmart…

Just don’t be Black.