Open Carry Law America

The Open Carry Law

The American Constitution allows citizens of many states to carry unconcealed weapons, a.k.a open carry. Many people have begun to practice the act of open carry but seldom try to understand their state laws and how open carry affects them. According to States across the US. There are different open carry permissions which the gun owner needs to adhere to. The Categories of Open Carry Laws are defined Below:
Licensed Open Carry State

• This is when the state has passed full preemption of the fire arm laws, granting open carry licensed to non-prohibited citizens once they have been issued a permit or a license to handle a weapon. You are permitted to open carry your handgun in vehicle or on foot.

Permissive Open Carry States

• The state has passed full preemption of all firearms laws. They allow open carry for all non-prohibited citizens and do not require a permit or license to open carry. Open carry is lawful on foot and in a motor vehicle.

Non-Permissive Open Carry States

• In these States, open carry of handguns are illegal. However special circumstance where public carry is effectively prohibited. These circumstances could be like when hunting, self defense, traveling to and fro hunting locations while on property controlled by the person open carrying.

Rural Open Carry

• This law seems to boil down to population density. In these states, open carry is generally prohibited. except in unincorporated areas of counties where population densities are below statutorily-defined thresholds, and local authorities have enacted legislation to not prohibit open carry in such jurisdictions (California). As such, these states are also regarded as Anomalous open carry states.

Anomalous Open Carry
The legality of open carry varies within state, based on local policies. In such states, some local jurisdictions may permit open carry while others may impose varying degrees of restrictions or prohibit open carry entirely.

States and Open Carry Jurisdictions

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States	Permissive	Licensed	Anomalous	Non-Permissive
Alabama	Yes
Alaska	Yes
Arkansas	Yes
California			Yes
Colorado	Yes
Connecticut		Yes
Delaware	Yes
District of Columbia				Yes
Florida				Yes
Georgia	Yes
Idaho	Yes
Illinois				Yes
Indiana		Yes
Iowa		Yes
Kansas	Yes
Kentucky	Yes
Louisianna	Yes
Maine	Yes
Maryland		Yes
Massachusetts		Yes
Michigan	Yes
Minnesota		Yes
Mississippi	Yes
Missouri		Yes
Montana	Yes
Nebraska			Yes
Nevada	Yes
New Hampshire			Yes
New Jersey		Yes
New Mexico	Yes
New York				Yes
North Carolina	Yes
North Dakota		Yes
Ohio	Yes
Oklahoma		Yes
Oregan			Yes
Pennsylvania			Yes
Rhode Island		Yes
South Carolina				Yes
Tennessee		Yes
Texas				Yes
Utah		Yes
Vermont	Yes
Virginia	Yes
Washington	Yes
West Virginia	Yes
Wisconsin	Yes
Wyoming	Yes
Arizona	Yes
Hawaii		Yes
South Dakota	Yes

Open Carry

Open Carry Common Questions

Do You Need a Permit To Open Carry?

• People who practice open carry need to know that a license is required to openly carry a loaded firearm. Once that firearm is not loaded, no license necessary. Open Carry is legal without a license, but to carry a handgun loaded in a vehicle one needs a concealed pistol license (CPL).

Who Cannot Open Carry?

• People prohibited by law from carrying a firearm. Typical examples are felons, those convicted of a misdemeanor of domestic violence, those found to be addicted to alcohol or drugs, and those who have been involuntarily committed to a mental institution. These person are not only prohibited from open carry, but from ownership of guns period.

American Citizens Open Carry Fears

A gun is a very fearful weapon and as such people who are seen with one demand attention and may be seeing as quite intimidating to someone. In recent times in America, there have been mass shootings, shootings in schools, churches and just about anywhere where large groups of people seem to congregate. The fear of seeing someone walking down the same side of the road with guns strapped to the teeth is real and quite fearful, especially if you have been the victim of gun attacks. It is quite simple, guns are easy to use and even if not fired properly is able to take the life of anyone who is in its way. But people who open carry are the least of America's problems when it comes on to mass shootings, robbery and killings. In-fact, if people were smart, they would push to have all weapons being open carry. Lets take a good look at the benefit of making open carry the standard of how we all should carry our weapons instead of concealed.

Why the law should make every Gun Owner open carry

Serious and deadly crimes are not being permitted by people who do lawful open carry, but by people who have tucked in concealed weaponry.
It would be much safer for people to know who around them is in possession of a deadly weapon such as a gun. Not all people like to be near guns and a person who is anti-gun may not want to be in the same coffee shop or sitting near a person who has a gun. So open carry law will allow you to better know your environment.
Criminals hate when decent law abiding citizens carry guns. It simply gets into the way of them committing and escaping a criminal act. The fear of getting shot goes both ways.

Places Where Guns Should Be Disallowed (Open Carry or Concealed)

There are places which should be what is considered neutral grounds and no form of weaponry should be allowed on these premises by law. Places such as Schools, churches, Entertainment Parks. Unless we all the the gun as a utensil, such as a knife and fork and how subconscious minds stops being intimidated by such a weapon. It should be outlawed to have any weapon inside places mentioned above. The only exceptions should be for certain groups of people such as Government Security Officers (police), and official security details. We can't have our weapons trotting every single where we go especially where there is children and worship. This would also help to give parents a more secure feeling about hundreds of guns walking around school compounds by some well dressed individuals as well as some really shady characters.

Open carry Prejudice

This ugly word seems as though it is here to stay. Yes, there is such a thing called open carry prejudice. Open carry prejudice is when Different class and race of people practice open carry and are met with different reactions from the same police officers who are called by scared citizens who have reported these gun carrying individual.
Black Open Carry

• When you open carry as a black man, the police tend to be much more aggressive when they approach you. They even have been known to draw weapons upon approaching the lawful individual and have even unlawful disarmed the person while handcuffed and faced down on the floor.

Open Carry White

• Well, we all know that white people do enjoy the constitutional rights better than the black people, no matter how much icing we put on the prejudice cake. When the police approach most open carry white individual, they are approached respectfully and respects the persons right to being white and bearing firearms.

Open Carry In A Poor Broke Down Neighborhood

• You can bet your last dollar that you will be tackled to the floor and probably arrested as a broke person carrying guns only have one intention. And that is to knock over the nearest liquor store.

Open Carry In a 2000 dollars suite

• If you just stepped out of a nice car and jazzing a nice suite with a assault rifle strapped across your shoulders i can guarantee you that if the police do approach you, it will not be to wrestle you to the floor thinking you are going to knock off the liquor store.

The Right To Bear Arms

Everyone has the right to self defense and the right to bare arms. Once you abide by any stipulations set by the open carry laws within your state you should not be harassed by any member of the security force unless the have strong suspicion of inappropriate actions. All open carriers should also be treated the same way. It should not matter if you open carry while black, white, Asian or Latino. The law is written as one accord and should be applied as one law across. Remember guns are not bad, its the idiots behind them.