Open Carry

On January first, California's AB 144 kicks in. As the new year begins, the Golden State's city, county and or state police may arrest anyone openly carrying a handgun. Unless the citizen in questions is...

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What are the odds that someone could walk into a Chicago police station holding a loaded AR, declare martial law and not be either repeatedly ventilated, billy-clubbed to a bloody pulp or even charged...

TTAG scribe and proto-hunter Nick Leghorn recently stirred-up a ballistic hornet's nest---a metaphor I'd like to see in real life, from a distance---with his post SERPA Holsters Should be Discontinued. Nick argued that the popular...

Most gun guys are down with Robert A. Heinlein's maxim that "an armed society is a polite society." They cite their experiences at the range, where everyone has a gun (or five) and shooters...

Back in March of 2010, this website reported on the case against Kurk Kirby: the Washington State resident who was arrested for openly carrying his .45 ACP Springfield XD into his neighborhood Albertson's grocery...

If someone doesn't commit a crime, is it news? Can things really be that violent in New Mexico? Anyway it apparently qualifies as news if you have a pellet gun in your backpack. In...

You may recall the case of Jesus Gonzalez, the Wisconsin Open Carry activist who shot and killed Danny John and shot and wounded John's nephew, Jered Corn. The DA charged Gonzalez with first-degree intentional homicide...

Home Carry---carrying a gun at home---is patently ridiculous. Make that dangerous. When you Home Carry you carry a gun at home. At home! A gun! A gun that fires bullets! That could hurt someone!...

"The intent was to raise awareness of the legal right of Californians to carry unloaded rifles and shotguns in public," sfgate.com reports. Well, the media did cover it. That counts for something right? "The...

Now that California Governor Brown has signed a bill outlawing open carry, the Golden State's open carry advocates are putting away their unloaded handguns---and picking up unloaded rifles. Responsible Citizens of California reckons some 50...

After signing a bill outlawing open carry, California Governor Jerry Brown has put his John Hancock on AB 809. The bill creates a long gun registry; the Golden State will now maintain a permanent...