And they say open carrying by itself is attention seeking.... (I don't think ALL open carriers are attention seekers but there's definitely a problem in the "movement").
Not only that, he managed to find a reason to carry his "open carry M14" (we can safely assume he thinks his M1A is an M14) into his optometrist's office because he "needed" new glasses for competition or something like that (you don't see a lot or...any open carry guys at competitions from my personal experience). I'm sure he's just as proficient with his "M14" as he is with his Sig .45.
Anyway, it's below and unedited. Try not to hurt yourself with the face palm.......... Thanks, guy. Thanks for making gun owners look like attention seeking loons with your "education" of the people. This will REALLY help our gun rights. I mean, it beats being proficient, training, going to matches. and not acting like an attention seeking teenage girl, right?
I have taken in the last six months to carrying a SIG .45. I have a long way to go to be good with it, but I'm within safety parameters.This evening, I rode my Segway from the house, through the neighborhood, to the Greenbriar shopping center, and rode the Segway into the Giant store to pick up some groceries.Clearly I was out of the ordinary with the Segway . . . operated as politely as it possibly could, always deferring to anyone going in my direction.By the way, there is a most gun-friendly optometrist next to Giant -- Nicholas Marotta and his wife at Greenbriar Optical. I once took my OC M-14 in there, because I needed a special lens to allow me to focus on the front sight. In the exam room, I held the rifle off-hand, sighting, while he held the letter card at the muzzle, and patiently did the "Is C better, or now D . . . C . . . or D?" bracketing of the correction. Now THAT is service.
There's a difference between just carrying a gun, and carrying a gun at people, and I know it when I see it. ;)
ReplyDelete"Carrying AT people," wish I'd thought of that one. Very apt.
ReplyDeleteA "SIG .45" on a Segway. If that had been posted anywhere other than opencarry.org, I'd say we were being trolled. But Mythbusters say: Plausible.
ReplyDeleteEdited the blog post to link to the post on opencarry.org. This is real, folks :)
ReplyDeleteCertain members of our movement seem to have lost the original purpose of OCing: to normalize guns in everyday life and show gun owners Are normal folks. It's hard to do that when you are being dumb, dressing trashy, pointing guns at people. That turns people off and is bad for our movement.
ReplyDeleteWe need to get back to the original way: dress nice, be respectful but assertive of our rights, no rifles (at least not yet), do it during everyday activities (but a carry protest is okay nice and awhile).
The Starbucks movement is an example do the former, the California movement is an example of the latter (even though they lost).
And BTW there is nothing wrong with SERPA holsters or Springfield XDs, unless you are using anti gun logic (aka emotional lack of fact logic).
Actually, there's stuff wrong with both the SERPA and the XD if you use logic. The SERPA has a very real problem of locking up completely with the gun in the holster with just a bit of debris in it. The XD has never passed a large agency's testing and you can't rack it without the grip depressed.
ReplyDeleteJust because you can doesn't mean you should. (BTW, SIG-Seg man's opencarry.org post has a faint whiff of trolling, though: I'd expect a real gun owner to spec the model, not just the maker and caliber.)
ReplyDelete▶ Most of us open carry for reason which dont include "get attention". When we open carry and use proper etitiquet ie. Wear nicer clothes, smile and have a pleasant demeanor, we set an example, a positive role model for other folks. Most average people dont know open carry is legal in most places and when they see someone exercising their 2nd amendment rights it makes them think. "Hey I should learn how to open carry my firearm. " join the discussion
ReplyDeletethis is great site for open carry photos and articles. the home of the Glock Girls..
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ReplyDeleteim not going to argue about the Serpa. I have one. It works perfectly. the US Marines are issued them for combat.
DeleteMany police officers use them for plain clothes duty.
The 'holster jams with dirt" comment is an internet myth for folks who have never used a serpa.
"Actually, there's stuff wrong with both the SERPA and the XD if you use logic. The SERPA has a very real problem of locking up completely with the gun in the holster with just a bit of debris in it. The XD has never passed a large agency's testing and you can't rack it without the grip depressed."
ReplyDeleteNope, there is nothing wrong with the SERPA or XD if you use logic. That locking up with dirt is overblown, and besides, OCers aren't going to be rolling around in dirt. And OH NO! Its never passed a large agency test? That's terrible!!!! As if that's the only worthy criteria.
*cough* Gun grab defense *cough*
DeleteCould very well be an M14 variant. Springfield Armory Inc. calls their guns M1A, and it's a trademark they protect fiercely with lawyers. Other builders of semi-auto M14 pattern rifles use M14 in the model name. My Armscorp M14NM is one of them. Norinco/Polytech sold theirs as the M14SA. Never say never...
ReplyDelete+1. You can't call your rifle an M1A unless it is built by Springfield. That is a trademarked designation.
Delete"I'm within safety parameters." I believe that means he hasn't shot himself. Yet.
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