PistolPackingMomma
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Last week my husband, son and I drove out of state to visit my family. We left SC and drove through NC and VA to WV. These are the encounters we had while open carrying.
April 26th
Carsontech and I have had another opportunity to carry our self defense tools openly among the public last week. We usually carry openly on private property as much as we are allowed to. When we're in a state that doesn't prohibit carrying openly, we take that opportunity to carry our primary tools openly and our backups openly or concealed.
Carsontech was wearing around his 1911 in a Blackhawk SERPA on the hip and sometimes on a Blackhawk drop leg attachment. He usually wears his BUG (Sig 238) on his ankle. If he wears pants, it's concealed, if he's wearing shorts, it's not. He also will usually throw an extra mag for his primary in one of his pockets.
I wore my 1911 in a Blackhwak SERPA on my hip with an extra mag in a mag holder.
Anyway, the following is for people interested in experiences on how carrying openly and/or concealed is accepted in states other than SC.
On our way to our destination we didn't stop much except for gas and food. At the rest areas, restaurants, and gas stations no one gave Carsontech's dropleg holstered 1911 a second glance; the same with my 1911.
After settling in for a day at our destination we went out on a double date in an artsy college town. I'm talking dreadlocks, all natural women that don't shave, everyone smells like they haven't had a bath in 10 days, and Mary J all around kind of college town.
We pulled up and parked in front of a nice little hippie restaurant about a hundred yards from the college. As we went inside the restaurant to get a table some of the more situationally aware patrons glanced at our self defense tools but they give us a second glance or seem to care. We ended getting a table out in the courtyard they had.
I had a beer with my meal. At no point did I stand up, un-holster my openly carried 1911, and start doing stupid stuff with it. Responsible drinking and carrying a self defense tool can be done, regardless of what the bed wetters in the SC (or any other!) legislature want you to think. The staff nor the patrons cared that anyone was openly carrying a self defense tool and drinking a beer. It was a non issue, just like the many other times we've carried and drank alcoholic drinks. The whole restaurant experience was a none issue, as usual.
After that we walked around the town sight seeing and going to a little shop here and there. Everyone treated us like they treated everyone else. It was getting cooler out and we wanted to get back to our son, so we headed back to the house.
April 26th
Carsontech and I have had another opportunity to carry our self defense tools openly among the public last week. We usually carry openly on private property as much as we are allowed to. When we're in a state that doesn't prohibit carrying openly, we take that opportunity to carry our primary tools openly and our backups openly or concealed.
Carsontech was wearing around his 1911 in a Blackhawk SERPA on the hip and sometimes on a Blackhawk drop leg attachment. He usually wears his BUG (Sig 238) on his ankle. If he wears pants, it's concealed, if he's wearing shorts, it's not. He also will usually throw an extra mag for his primary in one of his pockets.
I wore my 1911 in a Blackhwak SERPA on my hip with an extra mag in a mag holder.
Anyway, the following is for people interested in experiences on how carrying openly and/or concealed is accepted in states other than SC.
On our way to our destination we didn't stop much except for gas and food. At the rest areas, restaurants, and gas stations no one gave Carsontech's dropleg holstered 1911 a second glance; the same with my 1911.
After settling in for a day at our destination we went out on a double date in an artsy college town. I'm talking dreadlocks, all natural women that don't shave, everyone smells like they haven't had a bath in 10 days, and Mary J all around kind of college town.
We pulled up and parked in front of a nice little hippie restaurant about a hundred yards from the college. As we went inside the restaurant to get a table some of the more situationally aware patrons glanced at our self defense tools but they give us a second glance or seem to care. We ended getting a table out in the courtyard they had.
I had a beer with my meal. At no point did I stand up, un-holster my openly carried 1911, and start doing stupid stuff with it. Responsible drinking and carrying a self defense tool can be done, regardless of what the bed wetters in the SC (or any other!) legislature want you to think. The staff nor the patrons cared that anyone was openly carrying a self defense tool and drinking a beer. It was a non issue, just like the many other times we've carried and drank alcoholic drinks. The whole restaurant experience was a none issue, as usual.
After that we walked around the town sight seeing and going to a little shop here and there. Everyone treated us like they treated everyone else. It was getting cooler out and we wanted to get back to our son, so we headed back to the house.
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