All,
As some of you may know, I'm a big supporter of the open carry movement and practice it daily down here in Florida, but there are some restrictions and generally I have to "conceal" when I enter most places other than my motorcycle.
With that preamble, I just got back from a week's worth of motorcycle riding "up north" with some friends and I can't begin to tell you how delightful it was to be able to open carry all day and night without any worries about when I should go into "hiding" with it.
Restaurants, stores, diners, fast food places, gas stations and pretty much all of the parks and sights we went to. Just put the Glock 23 on and forget about it! What a relief!
We ran Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Georgia and ALL of it while open carrying with ZERO problems. I will be so glad when we get unrestricted open carry in Florida instead of the strange workaround we have to live with now.
So, to all of you Ohioans, be glad you can open carry and USE it as much as you can as it just gets easier and easier the more you do it.
The main reason for the run was to do the US129/Deal's Gap excursion but we did hit the Bob Evans Original Farmstead in Rio Grande, OH as well as a LOT of southern Ohio back roads that were excellent for motorcycles.
Sat right next to an Ashland county sheriff at a traffic light and he never even opened his window to ask me about the Glock in his face at window level!!
I"m looking forward to my return "up north" in August on our way out to Sturgis this year.
Oh yeah, other than one guy at a motel check-in in Georgia, NOBODY said a thing about the openly carried gun. The guy asked me if a had a license for "that". I explained to him that I only needed a license if I wanted to hide it. Open carry was legal without a license! He left it at that and gave me a good room!
AD
As some of you may know, I'm a big supporter of the open carry movement and practice it daily down here in Florida, but there are some restrictions and generally I have to "conceal" when I enter most places other than my motorcycle.
With that preamble, I just got back from a week's worth of motorcycle riding "up north" with some friends and I can't begin to tell you how delightful it was to be able to open carry all day and night without any worries about when I should go into "hiding" with it.
Restaurants, stores, diners, fast food places, gas stations and pretty much all of the parks and sights we went to. Just put the Glock 23 on and forget about it! What a relief!
We ran Tennessee, Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana and Georgia and ALL of it while open carrying with ZERO problems. I will be so glad when we get unrestricted open carry in Florida instead of the strange workaround we have to live with now.
So, to all of you Ohioans, be glad you can open carry and USE it as much as you can as it just gets easier and easier the more you do it.
The main reason for the run was to do the US129/Deal's Gap excursion but we did hit the Bob Evans Original Farmstead in Rio Grande, OH as well as a LOT of southern Ohio back roads that were excellent for motorcycles.
Sat right next to an Ashland county sheriff at a traffic light and he never even opened his window to ask me about the Glock in his face at window level!!
I"m looking forward to my return "up north" in August on our way out to Sturgis this year.
Oh yeah, other than one guy at a motel check-in in Georgia, NOBODY said a thing about the openly carried gun. The guy asked me if a had a license for "that". I explained to him that I only needed a license if I wanted to hide it. Open carry was legal without a license! He left it at that and gave me a good room!
AD