Open Carry is carrying a firearm unconcealed in Ohio. OC does not require a concealed handgun license, but the practice requires intimate knowledge of the law since there are places and situations where OC is prohibited but carrying concealed would be permitted. OC is also likely to attract attention. This forum is for discussion of OC, not for debating the pro's and con's or coordinating any type of protest events.
The memo is a five-page guide released by Senior Assistant State’s Attorney Timothy Sugrue to the Chief State’s Attorney’s Office. As explained by Connecticut Carry, the document concedes the unconcealed carry of a firearm with a valid permit in the state is lawful and that police cannot stop someone performing such open carry unless they have probable cause.
Then proceeds to outline just what an officer can and cannot do other than that.
“The State’s Attorney’s Office has made it clear that they will put their collectivist politics over the need for them to perform their job as advocates of the law,” says Connecticut Carry President Rich Burgess in a statement. “Mentioning mass shootings and the fear-based political climates that their collectivist ilk have manufactured to describe how police should interact with law abiding members of the population is the height of propaganda.”
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That person is exactly why tar and feathers were invented.
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Is there a CT statutory prohibition against deliberately interfering with the civil rights of a citizen ? Seems to me this propaganda is encouraging LEO to do precisely that.
It appears to give officers the guidelines they need when contacting or seizing an OC'er.
No, I would prefer that this document not make it into the hands of every cop in the field, but it is FAR better than the cops guessing...and guessing wrong.
Remember, those folks can only open carry WITH a permit, and this document SPELLS OUT that the police can NOT stop an OC'er just to see if they have a permit.
That's huge.
Yes, the document pushes the 'disorderly conduct' idea pretty hard, but their statute requires 'intent'.
These are just growing pains that the state and its citizens will have to deal with.
The story is as old as Aesop's "The Scorpion and the Frog".
No surprises in that document. At least this froggie was smart enough to leave CT and move back to OH 39 years ago because I wasn't going to get fooled by any hitchhiking scorpions.
BobK wrote:The story is as old as Aesop's "The Scorpion and the Frog".
No surprises in that document. At least this froggie was smart enough to leave CT and move back to OH 39 years ago because I wasn't going to get fooled by any hitchhiking scorpions.
Welcome back to the US.
Be a Madisonian.
It finally happened. I have now been accused on OFCC of both being a cop-hater and then a cop-lover! Therefore, anyone making either accusation must not be paying attention.
"The law says you can't just stop someone openly carrying a hangun and ask them to produce a permit. However, utilizing some extremely broad interpretations of currently existing laws I'm going to outline exactly how you can still harass them in a legal manner."
When the top LEOs have to bend and flex this much to subvert the obvious intention of a law (in this case, not harassing citizens openly carrying firearms), they no longer belong in the business of public service.
"The best we can hope for concerning the people at large is that they be properly armed."
Alexander Hamilton
keepitsimple wrote:...
When the top LEOs have to bend and flex this much to subvert the obvious intention of a law (in this case, not harassing citizens openly carrying firearms), they no longer belong in the business of public service.
keepitsimple wrote:"The law says you can't just stop someone openly carrying a hangun and ask them to produce a permit. However, utilizing some extremely broad interpretations of currently existing laws I'm going to outline exactly how you can still harass them in a legal manner."
When the top LEOs have to bend and flex this much to subvert the obvious intention of a law (in this case, not harassing citizens openly carrying firearms), they no longer belong in the business of public service.
Nailed it.
Be a Madisonian.
It finally happened. I have now been accused on OFCC of both being a cop-hater and then a cop-lover! Therefore, anyone making either accusation must not be paying attention.