ADulay
Regular Member
All,
Although I open carry on my motorcycle every day here in Florida, there comes a time in summer when I "must" head west for the annual Sturgis Extravaganza and I just returned from that venue.
The relevant part of this is that I open carried every day, all day with ZERO problems, just like every other year.
My bike is loaded for camping so when I pull out of the driveway, I'm open carrying all the way to Georgia where I no longer need any "excuse" to open carry.
No problems at stores, gas stations, restaurants, motels, and any other place I hit in the two weeks on the road.
Nobody ran away screaming. Children and old ladies didn't faint on sight. Truckers at the truck stop restaurants didn't form up to protect the patrons. The morning breakfast ritual at the motels was uneventful, like usual.
Visted some monuments and various things to see. Nobody cared. Open carry of a sidearm is just not the big crisis that Florida legislators (and the media) would like you to believe.
In fact, every state we hit was open carry friendly so there was no need to conceal or put the sidearm away.
So, this is just a note to let anybody who will listen know that open carry is not the scary event that the news would like you to believe.
Once you leave Florida, it's pretty much open carry everywhere away from Illinois until you hit California!
AD
Although I open carry on my motorcycle every day here in Florida, there comes a time in summer when I "must" head west for the annual Sturgis Extravaganza and I just returned from that venue.
The relevant part of this is that I open carried every day, all day with ZERO problems, just like every other year.
My bike is loaded for camping so when I pull out of the driveway, I'm open carrying all the way to Georgia where I no longer need any "excuse" to open carry.
No problems at stores, gas stations, restaurants, motels, and any other place I hit in the two weeks on the road.
Nobody ran away screaming. Children and old ladies didn't faint on sight. Truckers at the truck stop restaurants didn't form up to protect the patrons. The morning breakfast ritual at the motels was uneventful, like usual.
Visted some monuments and various things to see. Nobody cared. Open carry of a sidearm is just not the big crisis that Florida legislators (and the media) would like you to believe.
In fact, every state we hit was open carry friendly so there was no need to conceal or put the sidearm away.
So, this is just a note to let anybody who will listen know that open carry is not the scary event that the news would like you to believe.
Once you leave Florida, it's pretty much open carry everywhere away from Illinois until you hit California!
AD