jlf1961
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ORIGINAL: jlf1961 Does it matter to anyone that the open carry law in Virginia only allows the open carry of rifles and shotguns while going to and from a dealer, range or from a place where hunting is being done? just posted this on the other thread where you said the same thing; this may not be comprehensive, but what little is here does not support your contention quote:
Open carry is generally allowed without a permit for people 18 years of age and older. The following cities and counties have exceptions that disallow the open carry of "assault weapons" (any firearm that is equipped with a magazine that will hold more than 20 rounds of ammunition or is designed by the manufacturer to accommodate a silencer or equipped with a folding stock) or shotguns equipped with a magazine that holds more than 7 rounds: the Cities of Alexandria, Chesapeake, Fairfax, Falls Church, Newport News, Norfolk, Richmond, and Virginia Beach and in the Counties of Arlington, Fairfax, Henrico, Loudoun, and Prince William. These restrictions do not apply to valid concealed carry permit holders. Stated differently, you may open carry an assault weapon/shotgun with more than 7 rounds with a permit in the aforementioned locations, but do not need a permit to do so in any other locality in Virginia. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gun_laws_in_Virginia Forget wikipedia, go directly to the Virginia gun laws. Granted, you are going to go blind reading the damn things, and for a state almost as pro gun as Texas, they have a nice way of hiding shit, but but it is there. Rank it right up there with how they buried the regulations about having a radar detector in a semi. Those bastards could give you a ticket even if it was unplugged and laying in the passenger seat out of reach from the drivers seat and it would cost you a nice $496 in 1990. Oh, and I am actively involved in the gun owner movement for open carry and not hiding little regs that will get firearms confiscated from gun owners. There are a few states that pull this shit, Virginia (known as the communist state to some) is bad about hiding little loopholes to fuck people over in obscure subsections of the statutes. The state of Texas tried the same bullshit which was why the final open carry law took 3 years to finally get passed, not that it was actually needed, since there is an old law from the early 1900's that stated any citizen could legally openly carry a firearm except when there was a possibility (in the mind of the arresting officer) that the act constituted a threat to public safety. They could have saved a shit ton of time in just stating what the fuck constituted a threat to public safety. The same could be said for some of the 'stand your ground laws' around the country, the wording is so vague that in some states a paraplegic in a wheel chair with a pin knife could be considered a threat to personal safety. But there in lies the rub with a lot of the gun regulations currently in effect, either they are so vague as to be useless, or they hide shit in the subsections as to make it possible for a gun owner to be in violation without knowing it. My personal opinion, is that any person with the legal right to own a firearm should be allowed to openly carry a gun that would be prudent for self defense while not presenting a possible threat to the general public. That is to say, it should be perfectly alright to openly carry a pistol without having to have a special permit with the only requirement as having passed a state approved gun safety course, and that being said, the pistol could be anything from a .22 to .450 marlin (largest handgun caliber currently made.) And the anti gun liberal lobby can go fuck themselves with a barbed wired dildo covered in salt for all I care. Hell there have been a couple of times I have carried a replica walker colt saddle pistol instead of my preferred baby (a colt 1911 I call Doris- dont ask.) Now, if someone were to come up with a center fire version of the walker, I could honestly say I would be in heaven.
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Boy, it sure would be nice if we had some grenades, don't you think? You cannot control who comes into your life, but you can control which airlock you throw them out of. Paranoid Paramilitary Gun Loving Conspiracy Theorist AND EQUAL OPPORTUNI
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