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- Newsgroups: seattle.general
- Path: sparky!uunet!nwnexus!seanews!kopachuk!dcb
- From: dcb@kopachuk.uucp (David Breneman)
- Subject: Re: Displaying a weapon (was Bicycles are Vehicles)
- Message-ID: <1992Dec21.201034.2562@kopachuk.uucp>
- Organization: Tacoma Screw Products, Inc.
- References: <1992Dec15.014425.11930@eskimo.com> <4126@phred.UUCP> <BzKozD.7BC@plato.ds.boeing.com>
- Distribution: seattle
- Date: Mon, 21 Dec 1992 20:10:34 GMT
- Lines: 27
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- In article <BzKozD.7BC@plato.ds.boeing.com> prang@plato.ds.boeing.com (Ron Wanttaja) writes:
- >
- >When I lived in Colorado, there was a precedent-setting case there. I
- >forget how the situation started (whether the guy was verbally or
- >physically threatened, or just did it for the hell of it), but the police
- >arrested a man for displaying a weapon in public.
- >
- >The judge found for the defendant... he had a concealed weapons permit.
- >The judge ruled that the permit gave him the right to display the gun when
- >he felt it was necessary.
- >
-
- But, can't *anybody* (except maybe a convicted felon) carry an
- *unconcealed* gun? The whole point of a concealed weapons permit
- is not that it entitles you to carry a gun, but that you can hide
- the fact that you are carrying a gun from others. For instance,
- you supposedly cannot carry a gun in the glove compartment of your
- car (at least this is how most cops interpret it) unless you have
- a concealed weapons permit - otherwise, you have to have it on the
- seat beside you or in a gun rack, etc., where it is *plainly*visible*.
- Has this law changed?
-
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