List Your Open Carry Experiences Here

[Nang pa]

Well, it finally happened. After over two years of daily open carry, I finally got asked to put my gun in my car.

The kicker? This is the fifth time I've been in there in the past month.

Henry Ford Optimize in Troy. I got my lasik surgery done through them. Did an hour long pre-visit, another half hour visit to sign paperwork and get prescriptions, the post operation visit, and then a week later followup. No issues at all. Now I go in for another followup, I'm just getting into the exam room when some administrator comes in. She says that someone saw my gun ("Yes...") and that she was going to ask me to put it in my car. I said something like, "It isn't illegal for me to carry here, and you are not posted." Her response is that they have a no weapons policy and she had talked to the director. So I said okay and started to walk out. I told her that this was the fifth time I'd been in here, and she asked "Carrying like that?" I respond yes, to which she says something about "Well, I'm over on the other side of the building." Okay...

So I put my gun away and walk back in. Had a really great conversation with the doctor's assistant (who was in the room during the exchange). She apologized and said she didn't agree with the policy, then asked a bunch of open carry and gun law questions. Near the end she said something about "You hear bits and pieces about carrying but never get the full story" so I told her that's one of the reasons I open carry. She said she'd be sure to talk to all her friends in the office (bustling with nurse-type assistants) about it. She liked the way I handled the response, and I explained how it becomes a trespassing / private property issue and it's not a weapons violation.

So, check that off the list. I think the only things left on my to-do list is to have a Positive LEO Encounter and a Negative LEO Encounter. I think I've got everything else covered.

(Edit: By the way, I didn't particularly like the fact I got disarmed, especially mere hours after a mass shooting in a gun free zone in Oregon, in a tiny town at a community college where "it could never happen here.")

If you also CC a BUG, you can remain armed after puting the gun they saw back in the car.

 

[taxman]

If you also CC a BUG, you can remain armed after puting the gun they saw back in the car.

"No, I'm not trespassing, they only told me not to OC my big gun, they didn't say anything about CCing the little one"

 

[Nang pa]

"No, I'm not trespassing, they only told me not to OC my big gun, they didn't say anything about CCing the little one"

They ask you put the gun in your car, and you do. No problem.

Or would you also remove any pocket knife, box cutter, molti-tool, and pepper sprey while at your car?

 

[HPmatt]

Whats with this in the article:

'...had not obtained a permit to gather outside a free speech zone...'

Are there parts of the US where 1A is not operative?


Also like how they referred to I suppose muslims as 'residents' compared to the 'protestors'.


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[Michigander]

Some people seem to think so. Definitely not anything to go along with because again the free speech zone is any place a person happens to be standing.

 

[jeffrey-r]

"No, I'm not trespassing, they only told me not to OC my big gun, they didn't say anything about CCing the little one"

But she didn't only tell me to put the big gun away, she told me that they have a no weapons policy. I consider myself notified.

 

[Grapeshot]

Some people seem to think so. Definitely not anything to go along with because again the free speech zone is any place a person happens to be standing.

Hee he - almost, but not quite anyplace, anywhere.

Think private property, standing in the middle of a road, in a courtroom. Sure other laws may kick in, but the free speech zone defense is not liable to help one so much there.

 

[Glock214]

Haven't posted in awhile so I thought I would post places I've open carried recently. Kzoo: Olive Garden , Chipotle Grill, Pizza Hut, Little Cesar's, Speedway (saw my first OC'er there last week, thanked him for OC'ing. Even though his sweater was practically covering his sidearm, once I approached him and he noticed I was OC'ing he adjusted his clothes to ensure he was OC'ing. )
Shell, Applebees, TGI Friday's, Blaze Pizza, Taco Bell. Firestone auto service center, Wal-Mart, Meijer, Drakes Party Store, Bronco Liquor, Walgreens, Target, Jude's Barber Shop, and many many more places. Most of the places I OC at know me by name now.

Carry On!!!

Glock214

 

[fozzy71]

Haven't posted in awhile so I thought I would post places I've open carried recently. Kzoo: Olive Garden , Chipotle Grill, Pizza Hut, Little Cesar's, Speedway (saw my first OC'er there last week, thanked him for OC'ing. Even though his sweater was practically covering his sidearm, once I approached him and he noticed I was OC'ing he adjusted his clothes to ensure he was OC'ing. )
Shell, Applebees, TGI Friday's, Blaze Pizza, Taco Bell. Firestone auto service center, Wal-Mart, Meijer, Drakes Party Store, Bronco Liquor, Walgreens, Target, Jude's Barber Shop, and many many more places. Most of the places I OC at know me by name now.

Carry On!!!

Glock214

I OC everywhere I go unless so cold I need a jacket. Only one place in the last 12 months I have had a 'negative' encounter but too much bourbon from the comfort of my home to mention tonight to digress. I did have an extremely positive LEO encounter the other day that I instigated which was awesome. It might be the first time I have ever 'stopped' a LEO while OCing instead of the other way around LOL.

 

[taxman]

Had a hell of a good time counter protesting the anti Islam protest today. Got interviewed by vice, al Jazeera, a news paper from Tokyo, and others. Told the Detroit news and free press I wouldn't be interviewing with them due to their constant track record of lying, manipulative slander.

How much of it will be published I don't know. But some already has been. http://www.arabamericannews.com/new...im-protest-in-Dearborn-draws-small-crowd.html

Vanderbough wants us to know that Oath Keepers and Three % were NOT INVOLVED with the anti-Islam protest last weekend:

http://sipseystreetirregulars.blogspot.com/2015/10/oath-keepers-did-not-organize-global.html

 

[DeSchaine]

Six weeks of my sons Rocket football games at Ramona Park in Portage. Six weeks where not a single man, woman or child was hurt or killed. Six weeks of not a single person saying anything about my sidearm around all those kids. I figured there would have been lots of screaming and wringing of hands to cries of "oh, wont someone think of the children!" Alas, not a peep. Not even any calm reasoned arguments or interested questions or discussion.

Kinda boring, really.

 

[Nang pa]

Six weeks of my sons Rocket football games at Ramona Park in Portage. Six weeks where not a single man, woman or child was hurt or killed. Six weeks of not a single person saying anything about my sidearm around all those kids. I figured there would have been lots of screaming and wringing of hands to cries of "oh, wont someone think of the children!" Alas, not a peep. Not even any calm reasoned arguments or interested questions or discussion.

Kinda boring, really.

Wow no one even stopped you to preach the "element of suprise" gospel?

 

[OC4me]

Kinda boring, really.

As it should be!

 

[DeSchaine]

Yes and no. I would actually prefer a well reasoned discussion or some good questions. You know the whole thing about educating? But I digress.

Meijers and Walmart continue to be places where no one pays attention or cares, ditto Godfathers Pizza.

 

[taxman]

You want to start a conversation at Godfather's?
Dress like a goodfella and OC a Thompson. I bet it won't be boring.

 

[Bernymac]

You want to start a conversation at Godfather's?
Dress like a goodfella and OC a Thompson. I bet it won't be boring.

Nah, more like a few group photos with the patrons. Ask me how I know :lol:

 

[DeSchaine]

Very positive encounter with KDPS today. Called them on account of a gaggle of middle schoolers that think my property is a public walkway and threw rocks at the house when I yelled at them. Officer responded to the call in ten minutes (respectable for a non emergency) and we walked through the incident. Was OC'ing the entire time. Only remark she made was a tongue in cheek warning to not draw on the kids just for trespassing.

 

[fozzy71]

I think someone called on me today. Stopped at a party store in a strip mall down the street I OC in often and decided to walk in the take out chinese place I haven't been to in over a year for a few egg rolls to take home. Ordered the egg rolls, walked to the party store while they fried, went back for the egg rolls and when walking out a LEO pulled in. I waved, he waved back and pulled in next to my car on the passenger side. I saw him talking in to his shoulder mic as I backed out. He backed out behind me and I turned towards home as he turned the other way back towards the main road towards the PD. Most uneventful encounter I have ever had.

I detained a LEO a couple weeks back at a city park parking lot to ask if someone from the school the park borders had called a MWAG on me as I had seen the same LEO the day before in the same place while riding my bike. He said no one had called, he was just cleaning some trash out of his car and I was on my way. That was my first time ever stopping one of them. I just wanted to make sure he wasn't wasting time watching me when he could be doing real work.

 

[Michigander]

It's been an amazing past two weekends. First we get coverage from hundreds of worldwide news outlets for being ocers protesting islamophobia, then the next weekend we return to Muskegon where a year ago we were criminally drawn on and detained by a cpl instructor cop. This time around we had experienced activists from 4 states accompanying us and between that and a quarter million youtube views of the stop, and whadayaknow, they left us alone.

After that we headed to grand rapids, just days after their pd had yet again harassed an ocer, and yet again the cops opted to leave us alone. Oddly though mlive heard about us through the scanner and chased us down.

After that we went back home and the out of staters met up with some Indiana folks for a Gary walk which went well.

Definitely an exciting time for open carry related activism. Definitely happy to have helped create what moc was, and even happier to have been kicked out for still being an open carry activist.

 

[FreeInAZ]

It's been an amazing past two weekends. First we get coverage from hundreds of worldwide news outlets for being ocers protesting islamophobia, then the next weekend we return to Muskegon where a year ago we were criminally drawn on and detained by a cpl instructor cop. This time around we had experienced activists from 4 states accompanying us and between that and a quarter million youtube views of the stop, and whadayaknow, they left us alone.

After that we headed to grand rapids, just days after their pd had yet again harassed an ocer, and yet again the cops opted to leave us alone. Oddly though mlive heard about us through the scanner and chased us down.

After that we went back home and the out of staters met up with some Indiana folks for a Gary walk which went well.

Definitely an exciting time for open carry related activism. Definitely happy to have helped create what moc was, and even happier to have been kicked out for still being an open carry activist.

Well done folks! :thumbsup: