Comments on: GOA Suing to Overturn Florida’s Ban on Open Carry https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/goa-suing-to-overturn-floridas-ban-on-open-carry/ Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:46:54 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: uncommon_sense https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/goa-suing-to-overturn-floridas-ban-on-open-carry/comment-page-1/#comment-7542 Wed, 07 Aug 2024 11:46:54 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=10484#comment-7542 In reply to Darkman.

I agree with your sentiments in general cases.

For the people who say that there is never a case for open carry, please counter these examples:
1) People at Second Amendment political rallies carry firearms openly as a First Amendment expression.
2) I carry a large .44 Magnum revolver which is impossible to conceal when I am camping, hiking, and hunting. So I carry it openly in a chest holster.
3) Impromptu community militias need the option to carry firearms openly (especially long guns) to secure their neighborhoods/communities during periods of civil unrest.

(Note: I carry a large .44 Magnum revolver when camping, hiking, and hunting for protection against cougars, wolves, large bears, deer/elk, and even humans.)

]]> By: Nanashi https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/goa-suing-to-overturn-floridas-ban-on-open-carry/comment-page-1/#comment-7433 Mon, 05 Aug 2024 18:08:42 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=10484#comment-7433 Whatever happened to the lawsuits against Rick Scott’s gun grab?

]]> By: Hush https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/goa-suing-to-overturn-floridas-ban-on-open-carry/comment-page-1/#comment-7430 Mon, 05 Aug 2024 16:11:07 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=10484#comment-7430 In reply to Darkman.

Darkman, I agree for there is no need to advertise to the good or the bad that you are carrying. A local bank here that I do business with has a No Weapons Allowed sign posted on all entrance doors. I ask the bank manager about the signs and he said the bank’s main interest was for people not to carry open due to some feeble customer freaking out. He added concealed is concealed and doesn’t hurt anyone.
No need to be an obvious target. Older folk are at a greater risk considering age related health issues.
Carry concealed every day it’s the safest way.

]]> By: Geoff "I'm getting too old for this shit" PR https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/goa-suing-to-overturn-floridas-ban-on-open-carry/comment-page-1/#comment-7428 Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:51:30 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=10484#comment-7428 ““Despite its reputation as a largely gun-friendly state, Florida inexplicably continues to prohibit the peaceable carrying of firearms in an open and unconcealed manner,” the complaint obtained by Fox News Digital states.”

Not *quite* correct.

Open carry is allowed on the way to, engaging in hunting and fishing expeditions, and returning home.

One Florida man has a YouTube channel that covers his ongoing advocacy of this critical civil right :

https://www.youtube.com/@TheArmedFisherman/videos

He has been filing lawsuits against the LE agencies that have arrested him…

]]> By: Darkman https://staging.shootingnewsweekly.com/open-carry/goa-suing-to-overturn-floridas-ban-on-open-carry/comment-page-1/#comment-7425 Mon, 05 Aug 2024 15:28:55 +0000 https://www.shootingnewsweekly.com/?p=10484#comment-7425 I’ve never felt the need to advertise the fact that I’m packing heat although I do understand that it should be legal. You should never let any potential attacker know your capabilities. Just like in War the less your enemy knows the better for you. For those who believe open carry offers some sort of deterrent. While that may be the case for the less than determined attacker it also gives the determined attacker the information they need to simply shoot you up front then take what they want including your firearm, from your dead body.

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