Open Carry question???

[cmth]

I'm just trying to help the average folk who want to exercise their rights. I can't help ignorant cops who spread FUD and arrest people for it. Up until a few months ago, LVMPD was doing everything short of summary executions to OCers on the strip. That has been corrected, and the rest will be corrected with time.

[agent.5]

Forget Open Carry in California, do the Jack Bauer Men Purse "locked container" Carry instead.

[NiteQwill]

I'm just trying to help the average folk who want to exercise their rights. I can't help ignorant cops who spread FUD and arrest people for it. Up until a few months ago, LVMPD was doing everything short of summary executions to OCers on the strip. That has been corrected, and the rest will be corrected with time.

I agree.

But on the side of caution, I would not want to be proned out the 150+ degree Las Vegas strip concrete. LVMPD is not exactly the golden standard for police departments in this country IMHO.

Either way, I conceal carry 99.9% of the time.

[Average Joe American]

I live in Nevada so I am very familiar with Nevada OC and CCW.

Its Ca. that drives me nuts trying to figure out? We had a retired cop from Socal move to Vegas to work for the Attorney Generals office and he actually told me that OC is illegal in Ca. I guess he never got the memo? lol. I know its hard to keep up on all the laws but you'd think at a minimum being vaguely familiar with OC laws would be a high priority nowadays?

I dont work or live in Ca. and even I know OC is legal there. Its crazy that lots of Ca. cops still dont know about it?

[cmth]

Technically he is correct that OC is illegal, since by every other definition, OC means to openly carry a loaded handgun in a holster. Since you can't carry loaded in CA except in generally rural areas, that would mean that OC is for most intents and purposes, illegal. Our sub-genre of UOC is not synonymous with OC in the other states. Go next door to Arizona and OC an unloaded handgun. You will get laughed out of the state.