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Originally Posted by Bogie Shooter
Why stop with concealed carry…..go for open carry!
The macho guys can show off their pretty guns.  |
Minnesota has been a "shall issue" state now for nearly two decades. For some unfathomable reason, even though the rest of the restrictions surrounding a permit-to-carry up there make defending yourself illegal in all but the most dire of circumstances, the state is open carry. You can carry openly in public with impunity and as long as you have a permit you're perfectly legal. I am pretty sure it was an oversight by the lawmakers. But it is what it is.
I never did. As far as I was concerned the only person that needed to know I was carrying was me. Far better to keep it hidden than to have to deal with some millennial mom dissolving into a puddle of gibbering drool in some grocery store or Walgreen's at the sight of my LC9.
The people who add fuel to the fire by flaunting or showing off (thankfully very few, in my experience anyway) are doing no one any favors. Flaunting a gun, even though it be totally legal, is rubbing it in the face of somebody, somewhere. Totally unnecessary.