If you enjoy the forum please consider supporting it by signing up for a NES Membership The benefits pay for the membership many times over.
Be sure to enter the NES/MFS May Giveaway ***Canik METE SFX***
I make little to no effort to conceal anymore.
I make little to no effort to conceal anymore.
Dude, you really are crazy!
I conceal but at this point I honestly don't even care if I'm printing or not. People, for the most part, are so oblivious, and unless you put your hand on it, touch it, act retarded, or it falls out of your holster in a crowded area, 99.9% of the population just isn't going to notice or care. It's really not that hard to be the "gray man". It's also particularly hilarious when you get in and out of a restaurant booth, or a chair or something and the gun clanks up against the seating and people still don't even notice.
-Mike
I have not given it hardly any thought at all. Most thought I give to it is in this type of thread.we suspect that the average Massachusetts resident may become “alarmed” on learning that someone other than a law enforcement officer is carrying concealed weapons in his or her presence. However, Simkin is not responsible for alarm caused to others by his mere carrying of concealed weapons pursuant to a license permitting him to do exactly that.
...it would be more convincing to see pics of purported OCers in Boston.
I conceal but at this point I honestly don't even care if I'm printing or not. People, for the most part, are so oblivious, and unless you put your hand on it, touch it, act retarded, or it falls out of your holster in a crowded area, 99.9% of the population just isn't going to notice or care. It's really not that hard to be the "gray man". It's also particularly hilarious when you get in and out of a restaurant booth, or a chair or something and the gun clanks up against the seating and people still don't even notice.
-Mike
If someone asks, the answer is "colostomy bag".Could be a cellphone on my belt, a medical device or monitor, etc, and that's if anyone notices anything at all, which they typically don't.
I try to tell my girlfriend this every time she calls me out for printing. She knows it's there, no one else does, therefore they don't notice it. Besides a gun is the last thing the general public assumes the printing is... Could be a cellphone on my belt, a medical device or monitor, etc, and that's if anyone notices anything at all, which they typically don't.
Isn't it technically illegal to open carry in a car? Or maybe that just means it can't be hanging in the back window.
If you are doing it as an experiment or to make a point you'd need to never tell anyone that -- until you're out of state anyway.Everything on this thread and in every other thread on this topic is speculation simply because there isn't really much history on this.
It would be great if a person who was about to move out of the state and whose firearms were already outside the state did some experimentation.
1) would the sheeple panic?
2) what would be the LE response?
3) Would the CLEO in his town yank his LTC?
Its obviously variable by location, but it would be interesteing none the less.
Don
You at least need that "cop look" or military contractor look or something. I am a thin computer geek, clearly not someone they might approve to have a gun. It would not go well for me in Boston.
If someone asks, the answer is "colostomy bag".
This exception to this is dating situations.
If you open carry and anyone questions you, shoot the closest dog and they will just assume your a cop.
According to this, open carry is illegal for long guns in Mass, but there's a lot of conflicting info on the web about this:
http://smartgunlaws.org/open-carrying-policy-summary/
One day in Boston I just got my hair cut and was wearing cargo shorts with a short sleeve shirt untucked and then walking down Essex St., past the St Francis House where all the wackos hangout, these guys start eyeballing me all quiet and nervous and as I pass I hear one of them quip, "Boston's finest right there". I pretended like I didn't hear it but I was dying laughing inside.
so I guess that day I had the look.
Unless one is lawfully engaged in hunting, long guns must be cased on public ways.
If you're in your vehicle, you're transporting, not carrying your long gun. Just as a handgun in a locked case is being transported, not carried.
Now, if you're on an OHV (Off Highway Vehicle) while hunting, the long gun must be in a locked case while moving.
Simple, huh?
Unless one is lawfully engaged in hunting, long guns must be cased on public ways.
If you're in your vehicle, you're transporting, not carrying your long gun. Just as a handgun in a locked case is being transported, not carried.
Now, if you're on an OHV (Off Highway Vehicle) while hunting, the long gun must be in a locked case while moving.
Simple, huh?
OOF.If you open carry and anyone questions you, shoot the closest dog and they will just assume your a cop.
Please take another look at that?
I never found any requirement for a Locked case on an OHV, merely cased and unloaded. MGL C. 90B S.26(g) https://malegislature.gov/Laws/GeneralLaws/PartI/TitleXIV/Chapter90B/Section26
Thanks for posting that story. I have never heard of anyone getting a "not concealed" restriction, especially from Newton! That's crazy!