Sometimes it is just fun. Also 99% of people never notice anyways. Sometimes just for fun I will lift up my shirt to make sure I am open carrying, before going into walmart. I always tell my 9 year old daughter we are going to see if we can get kicked out of the walmart today. She says "Dad we never get kicked out when you do that, nobody even notices"

Look I can't English and my auto correct has given up trying lol

THIS!

Open carry doesn't worry me at all. If I see a guy with a gun, I don't feel unsafe. If I'm ever outside of my own state (where carry is illegal), I carry concealed because I prefer to life life unnoticed. But I see an advantage to open carry. First, it's a deterrent. Second, if you do need your gun, it's easier to get too.

EVERYONE who wants to pass laws because they were just frightened by open carry are liars. They already wrote these laws years ago and have been waiting for an excuse to open the old dusty file.

I don't have a problem with it but if you are doing it for personal protection in case someone starts a gunfight, IMHO, if the bad guys are scoping out the robbery and you are standing there with your fly open, they are going to walk up and put one in the back of your head before the fight starts. Now, if they think there are nothing but sheep and start something you can practice what you learned at last weeks IDPA match. Once again, just my humble opinion. They won't see mine until I have a tactical advantage.

And i can pile skinned carcasses next to the road ,My land, My right

My take on this is you haven't needed it yet, the past doesn't mean anything. Thing is you never know when you'll need it, maybe never, maybe right away. I have made mine visible in my hand once, two guys decided there was easier pickins elsewhere. I hate to think what would have happened if I was unarmed.

Myself, I prefer to CC. Rarely (and I've been over this before) do I OC. Usually only when hunting, fishing or camping. However, that is what I prefer and I will support someone that want's to OC 100% although I disagree with certain aspects. When it comes to rifles, Do you need to carry an AR into Walmart to shop? Nope, I don't think it's a very good decision as far as helping the 2nd cause and I think there are better ways. However, it is their right, I support that right and I don't draw a line simply because I disagree. My disapproval means nothing to anyone other than myself and they have every right to carry that rifle. The Constitution says so.

Why open carry?
Why are muslim mosques allowed to stay open while everything else is shut down?
The enemies within.

Do you wear the seat belt in your vehicle? You'll probly never need it.

Always ignore everything before the but....

ding, ding, ding....Winner.

I have the right to throw a bleeding gutted dead buck across my hood and drive around town but that won't promote the hunting tradition I love. I know that is comparing apples to oranges but there might be some similarity there.

The ethical discussion of a deer on your hood that you are putting on your hood, to over heat and ruin some meat, that isn’t actually a right, but a privilege. And the rightful and constitutionally protected carry of an inanimate object that you have on your person for defensive protection in an open situation is apples and oranges.

Two totally different things....

You are right though that it doesn’t promote deer hunting in general. The legal carry of persons with a firearm doesn’t harm our constitutional rights but promotes them and shows that more people than you low actually carry and nobody is harmed as long as they don’t the to violate the other persons right to life liberty and the persist of happiness...

Everyone should carry how the heck they want and feel comfortable carrying a defensive firearm...

Sometimes a guy has to step back and see why he thinks like he does at times. The whole anti thinking process is based on, “ if I don’t do it then others should not then.”

Good common sense right here...

I'm waiting for a dos equis beer man meme. "!I don't always open carry, but when I do..........."

Also, for a forum full of trappers, hunters, outdoorsman, I can't believe we have such a divide here and how many are against anything when it comes to legal gun rights at all.. you guys against it fail to see the big picture. The big picture is more important than your opinion or your feelings.

Agreed

Well I know when I made this post that it would create many responses. Of course I open carry when hunting or trapping because none of the left wingers are around. It just pisses me off when I see pictures of protesters screaming in the face of cops and they are open carry with rifles and handguns. It does not help the cause. The cops are just doing there job. I would not want anybody to know that I have a weapon until it is time to use said weapon. I opened carried for 32 years as a law enforcement officer because it was part of my job.