I don’t plan on open carrying a pistol now that it is legal to do so in my state…ditto for open carrying a rifle.
I prefer nobody know a damn thing about what I have or own or my financial status. No flashy cars, watches, clothing and yes…no nice expensive guns out for everyone and his dog to see.
I think you are just begging for trouble by doing this but I do not want to impede your choice to make bad decisions at all so go head on if you wish.
I’ll say no thanks. If it’s to the point that you may actually need a long gun, I’d say shtf is well past and it’s dog eat dog…
That would suck, so very badly.
Even in a society as usual, that would still be a pain. I’d carry a long gun broken down or folded in a back pack long before open carry a long gun.
Don’t give your threats Intel on what your capable of.
I could see it now. About the time someone press checks their colt ar15 in the applebees everyone would freak the **** out.
Despite the PITA factor, I know I’d carry a rifle in addition to a concealed handgun if a bunch of other people carried rifles openly. The minimum would be a rifle and spare mags in my truck, and a pistol either open or concealed, depending on the situation. I would do that now, except that state and work rules prevent me from doing so.
I think the only way that socially acceptable rifle carry would be realistic is during some kind of major unrest, disaster, or disruption in the normal order of our society, which would change everything, especially our routines and perceived threat level.
Isn’t that called being “in the Infantry?”
I think he means possible as in legal. It’s legal in a lot of places, but not necessarily considered accepted behavior.
I would carry a rifle, but not in the open. I would carry a concealed handgun and keep a SIG 553 or HK53 in a very discrete courier/laptop bag. The only way I would openly carry a rifle would be if society had completely collapsed.
As many have mentioned, carrying and keeping track of a rifle 24/7 gets old quick, it isn’t like a pistol.
If you skyline yourself by OCing anything, unless you intend to trust your safety to the goodwill of all you meet, you always have to be walking around in condition orange, which is more stressful than always being in yellow. You in essence up the penalty for any lapse of awareness if you are OCing.
I’d do it but only if I also got to wear a tactical ball cap with a ‘I’m A Sheepdog’ morale patch and a t-shirt that said ‘Sheeple - I’m Your Savior’
Been there, done that, got out.
I worked three jobs for two years, so I could put a down payment on a house in a really nice suburb. I now pay property taxes so that the local PD can issue SBR’s to the guys on patrol. And I’m perfectly happy with that.
If I need to hump a rifle everywhere I go every day, I’m moving again. Screw that grunt stuff, I have the bad back and knees to show what a pain that was.
If I think I need a rifle someplace, I just don’t go there. (See the Rule of the Three Stupids) I ain’t a Lance Coolie anymore, they can’t order me to go someplace I don’t want to be.
No 5.11 pants?? What about your fixed blade knife with the giant sawteeth on the back?
Unless it’s socially acceptable - barring total societal collapse - I wouldn’t open carry a rifle.
Now, in a discrete case or tennis racket case? Different story.
If I’m slinging a rifle, I’m putting a katana in the belt. That should buy me LOTS of discretion while people wonder about my exact mental state.
You might go mess with somebody who has a slung rifle. You might go mess with somebody with a katana. Nobody messes with a somebody who has a slung rifle AND a katana.
No way. I barely want to carry the damn thing deployed.
Lol. Walking Dead.
Unless your very very very remote i.e. your own remote ranch property CONUS or Alaska you will probably draw the wrong kind of attention.
Not likely.
Ever.
I have a plan…
To quote Sasaki Kojiro “This sword came back from Master Honami’s only yesterday…It’s sharp”
After that if they give me any crap I show them my “Turning Swallow Cut.”
Just wear some of those Magnum P.I. Navy SEAL short trunks and it’ll throw people off . . . :lol:
It is completely 100% legal to open carry any firearm in AZ. Nullum crimen, nulla poena sine praevia lege poenali. The police may stop and ask questions if you are walking about, but that depends on whether or not they received a call.
I carry one in my vehicle when practical, but walking around with it simply because I can is silly.
If you feel the need to sling your AR, AK or whatever for your trip to work or shopping…maybe it is time for you to move?
I got nothing against it if it floats your boat, but me personally, I’m just damn well not gonna hang out places where I feel the need to tote a rifle every day. If I wanna hang out in places where you need to tote a rifle, well, there’s a couple outfits I know of that will pay me to do it, in exotic locations even…
I’m curious what prompted the OP’s question in the first place. Personally, I think having the option for OC is great, but so is CC, and it’s a hell of a lot easier to blend in. I like blending in and avoiding any known hotspots until it becomes more advantageous to be overt, which in most situations here in CONUS, it isn’t.
But again, hypothetically if I’m in a situation where people around me are carrying rifles, I will sling up too, if for no other reason than to keep things on the level. Having only a pistol when everyone else has rifles is better than having nothing, but still kind of sucks.