Why is it so awful if you're printing or made? Is it illegal to print in some states? If you're in an open carry state, does anyone actually care? Or is it just bad manners?
In some states -- some but not all non-open-carry states -- printing is downright illegal and will get your right to carry revoked.
Not all open carry states are the same, and not all areas within a single open carry state are the same. For example, Washington state has open carry, and I've occasionally failed to toss my cover garment back on when traveling the two miles from the (rural) range back to my (rural) home because I know that if anyone saw me (unlikely), they would not care out here. But if I were in Seattle or Vancouver or Olympia, I definitely would not do that unless I wanted to spend my day talking guns with strangers and perhaps with police officers as well. So it's not a matter of "open carry state = nobody
cares if they see a gun in the open." It's very location and context specific even in gun friendly states.
It also seems like people who carry concealed, spend an awful lot of time worrying and fussing over not printing, not being made, and wearing stuff where they never have to set their gun down. Sounds like a lifestyle??
It seems like that online, where you have two basic populations of people talking about the nuts and bolts of carrying concealed:
1) newcomers, who are
always obsessively worried about it, and
2) people who've done it for years and who are trying to explain the whole deal to the newcomers, helping the newcomers understand exactly how it's done.
Once you get past the newcomer period, the worry wears off and it's just something you do. Honest.
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