The Jensens are part of a fledgling movement to make a firearm as common an accessory as an iPod. Called "open carry" by its supporters, the movement has attracted grandparents, graduate students and lifelong gun enthusiasts like the Jensens.
"We've changed over the last 200 years from the days of the wild, wild West," [Police Chief John] Greiner said. "Most people don't openly carry. . . . If [people] truly want to open carry, they ought to expect they'll be challenged more until people become comfortable with it."
In California, people can openly carry only unloaded guns.
Glancing around the restaurant, as armed families like the Jensens dined with men in cowboy hats and professionals like himself, Thompson smiled.
"I love this," he said. "I want people to be aware that crazy people are not the only ones with guns. Normal people carry them."
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CC or OC that Colt wouldn't be my first choice
A tad above PG-13 at the end ...
springfield makes an XD35?
Sick burn, brosophecles!Hey, its a newspaper article, don't confuse a journalist with factual information
Well what really got me a little hot under the collar was the police chief who told the story about how open carry makes his life harder and then relates that a nutball with a shotgun who opened fire on officers was doing an open carry. That chief was associated each of us who lawfully carry to that nutball and giving the anti-gunners a wonderful story to cling to. . . and you know they will cling to that story and ignore the rest of this article! The chief totally screwed us over with that, and he obviously did it on purpose to support his anti-gun politics because he claimed to tell the story over and over again.
Sorry chief, I take offense to being associated to criminal activity. Just because I own the same type of gun as a madman does not mean I am a criminal, nor should I be associated with criminals because I lawfully own guns. I wonder if his wife is a $2 whore who works the street corners? She has a vagina so she is equipped to do the job.
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CC or OC that Colt wouldn't be my first choice
By the time he draws that, he's gonna have 3 rounds in his center mass.
I second that. By the time he draws that, he's gonna have 3 rounds in his center mass.
YouTube - COWBOY ACTION SHOOTING
I dunno, that older, heavier guy, didn't do so bad at cross draw and fire.