Maybe I'm just getting cynical in my middle-age, but sometimes I wonder if bills like this get introduced and passed in one chamber of a legislature only after being assured behind closed doors that it'll never see the light-of-day in the other chamber. It gives both sides opportunities to fire up their base.
Tennessee Senate approves constitutional Open Carry
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Maybe I'm just getting cynical in my middle-age, but sometimes I wonder if bills like this get introduced and passed in one chamber of a legislature only after being assured behind closed doors that it'll never see the light-of-day in the other chamber. It gives both sides opportunities to fire up their base.
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Considering how much hooplah I hear about pro rights bills introduced in the US House of Representatives, when we know the chance of them going through the current Senate AND being signed by the current Chief Executive is the same as a man successfully passing a bowling ball through his digestive system, unharmed, yeah, the possibility exists it is just politics as usual. 
OC has been fine here in Va. for as long as I remember. I CC and OC. I've even seen legal aliens OC'ing and know of many CC'ing.
Thing is, even when I spotted a guy with dredlocks OC'ing in a local Walmart the other day, nobody paid any more attention than I did, ie: Look to ascertain if any evil intent was afoot. That must have taken 1-2 seconds, then 3-5 more to see if anybody nearby was 'freaking out'. Answer was 'No' to both questions, so I went back to shopping.
Even when I see the occasional OC of a long gun, my interest is only to ascertain intent.
That said, even though illegal, I have been on country 2 lane roads and gone around a curve to see a hunt club lined along the road with weapons and attention focused across the road.
I pay attetion them to see if they're paying attention to traffic crossing the firing lanes. Inevery case like that so far, I've never seen any of them taking true aim and not pointing skyward at the approach of traffic, so I and the family never felt threatened.
Thing is, even when I spotted a guy with dredlocks OC'ing in a local Walmart the other day, nobody paid any more attention than I did, ie: Look to ascertain if any evil intent was afoot. That must have taken 1-2 seconds, then 3-5 more to see if anybody nearby was 'freaking out'. Answer was 'No' to both questions, so I went back to shopping.
Even when I see the occasional OC of a long gun, my interest is only to ascertain intent.
That said, even though illegal, I have been on country 2 lane roads and gone around a curve to see a hunt club lined along the road with weapons and attention focused across the road.
I pay attetion them to see if they're paying attention to traffic crossing the firing lanes. Inevery case like that so far, I've never seen any of them taking true aim and not pointing skyward at the approach of traffic, so I and the family never felt threatened.
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OC of a handgun and OC of a rifle are two totally different things. Rifles are going to scare, UNLESS they're in the context of an obvious organized protest for specific goals.
The Texas OC crowd are pushed into rifles because of the laws there. In my view what they all need to do is go get percussion wheelguns for about $250 a pop and OC those, which is legal in Texas. It's also legal to OC a percussion piece while CCWing something more modern.
That would go over better than rifles and shotties.
The Texas OC crowd are pushed into rifles because of the laws there. In my view what they all need to do is go get percussion wheelguns for about $250 a pop and OC those, which is legal in Texas. It's also legal to OC a percussion piece while CCWing something more modern.
That would go over better than rifles and shotties.