NRA ILA Question

[Scandivious]

Just got a newsletter from the NRA-ILA and saw a statement that I never heard of and I need some confirmation?

It states: "because California law allows a person to carry a loaded firearm when in immediate, grave danger, and also allows a person to carry an unloaded firearm openly. Therefore, claimed the court, Should the need for self-defense arise, nothing in [state law] restricts the open carry of unloaded firearms and ammunition ready for instant loading".

I may be wrong and not have read every law but I never read anything about open carry but unloaded.

[Gts408]

Open carry been around. You can carry a unload firearm on one side of your belt and the loaded mags on the other. But I wouldn't do it.

[Librarian]

Just got a newsletter from the NRA-ILA and saw a statement that I never heard of and I need some confirmation?

It states: "because California law allows a person to carry a loaded firearm when in immediate, grave danger, and also allows a person to carry an unloaded firearm openly. Therefore, claimed the court, Should the need for self-defense arise, nothing in [state law] restricts the open carry of unloaded firearms and ammunition ready for instant loading".

I may be wrong and not have read every law but I never read anything about open carry but unloaded.

See the underlined - they very carefully, and correctly, worded their sentence.

Carry concealed (without a carry license) is prohibited by PC 12025.

Carry loaded in public (again, without a carry license) is prohibited by PC 12031.

No positive statement of law exists that says 'it is permitted to carry a concealable handgun UN concealed and UN loaded'; it is just the case that if one does that, one is not violating any prohibitions.

There are complicating factors making that practice, well, impractical - principally school zones.

Here on Calguns, as well as other sites, the practice is called UOC - Unloaded Open Carry.

[JeremyS]

About the other part of what the OP quoted -- that you are allowed to carry a loaded firearm when you are in immediate, grave danger. That doesn't mean going into a really bad neighborhood where you might get mugged. It means the time between when you have dialed 911 and when the cops arrive.