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Originally Posted by dksuddeth
As far as Cali goes, having looked at alot of the laws there, open carry in unincorporated parts is perfectly legal. Also, I believe that one can open carry a handgun as long as there is no magazine in the pistol, although in urban areas you'll certainly be laid out prone and arrested til they realize you didn't break a gun law, so you'll probably get charged with disorderly conduct or disturbing the peace....if you're not outright shot.
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You're absolutely right, but you'll get serious looks and most people around here would call the police.
My little brother used to paint-ball, and he was walking from a wooded area to a pay-phone with a friend to get a ride home. Someone mistook a paint-ball gun (with the paint-ball feeding apparatus, which makes the toy look nothing like a gun) for a real gun and the police arrived very quickly. Several squad cars and a helicopter.
The culture here is just different, that's all. We, and when I see 'we' I mean many, many Californians, don't like guns. The more metropolitan the area, the less people like guns. A lot of it can be blamed on the gang violence of the early to mid 90s, but really it's just about the possibility of a violent death from multiple gunshot wounds going up when there's a gun around. Having been shot myself, I can attest to the possibility of being shot going up if there's a gun around. SJ really isn't a city with a lot of crime, anyway, so it makes little sense to carry. Even though a lot of our cops are racist, they do manage to keep things pretty safe. We're the safest city over 500,000 people in the whole country, so far as crime.
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