Open carry is permitted where I live. Sometimes, after I finish up at the range, I wear my holstered .45 to various places on the way home (the convenience store, the gun store, the grocery store...). Sometimes people give me strange looks. If they do, I simply smile, hoping that in so doing I am normalizing the experience for them.
I am thankful to be able to freely exercise this amazing right. There was a time not so long ago that I would have been afraid to see a man or a woman open carrying. But something happens when you understand guns - how they operate, how to safely handle them, what they can do. Now, if I see a fellow gun owner exercising his or her rights, I smile and let them know I am glad they are around.
1 month ago
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Sounds interesting.
What do you think about the gun industry playing up the idea that Obama will take away this right in order to increase sales?
I think that it is less a conspiracy of the gun manufacturers and their marketing arms than a natural phenomenon arising out of a fear on the right that Obama plans to increase gun regulations. And I see no evidence of that so far. I think that is because there are other issues he thinks are far more important to expend political capital on. And he knows this would be a losing battle.
So, while I am sure fear of regulation has fed the firearm buying frenzy, I doubt the manufacturers have had to spend dollar one to get that message out.
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