Thanks, @Jane2! I’ve shared your praise with Bonnie who is our laws expert here - I know she will appreciate the feedback!
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Great Dawn, I am Happy that I join this group Very helpful, involved and willing to help and great views and resources - Thank you
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I did a search and Delaware is an open carry state, which means you can carry, or transport, a firearm openly. Since you question rests with transportation, the easiest answer would be to follow the federal law with respect to transporting a firearm which would require that it be unloaded and stored in the trunk, as long as you have a trunk. Otherwise, it should be unloaded and locked is a case.
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Thank you Mike I appreciate the assistance and information
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USCCA peeps and resources rock. I’m just saying…
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I am not a lawyer and this is not legal advice.
To me Open carry assumes the firearm is loaded. In many places open carry does NOT include transportation in a vehicle with out the person having a carry license/permit.
In most cases (check your local laws) if the weapon is unloaded in a case NOT accessible from the drivers compartment (sometimes locked is required) with the ammunition stored in a separate container/case (sometimes locked is required) and also not accessible from the drivers compartment you are good.
If I am going to travel (especially across state lines) I check state laws a few days before I am going to travel. If I still have questions many times a call to the state police can help provide answers or perhaps point you in the right direction to get the answers you seek.
A call to the USCCA can also help point you in the right direction to get the answers you seek.
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Thank you I really appreciate the assistance
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The laws vary so much from state to state that the truly best answer is to ask people at the range what’s the way to go. Even LE can’t keep up with all the firearms laws in their own county. Talk to people who deal with it daily.
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Concealed carry is an observer cannot see the actual weapon, or enough of it to see a firearm.
There are some tell tail signs of poor concealment like a flimsy cover garment that “prints” the weapon outline, imprinted through the garment because it clings to the gun vs. draped over the gun like a thicker material is more like a curtain.
Open carry is you can clearly see the weapon as carried Outside the waistband vs. Inside the waistband, there is little or no effort to hide the weapon from plane view, it takes no imagination to figure out that it’s a gun like a uniformed law enforcement officer carries a gun in a completely visible manner.
There is no mistaking it for any other object like a cellphone.
If you live, work full-time, or are military stationed in Tennessee with, or without a permit to carry a handgun, as long as you are not a prohibited person, it’s your choice to carry open, or concealed.
Other states have other rules, like NY, if you are not a Law Enforcement Officer, or an Armed Security Guard on duty like those on an armored vehicle cash carrying service, just an ordinary citizen, you may not open carry with their version of a CCW, and they don’t have Permitless carry.
Some other states might require those who don’t have a permit / CCW to concealed, and those doing so Permitless to do so openly.
Must have a Concealed Carry Permit CCW to carry concealed.
It depends on your state’s laws.
But, be it by choice, or law, whichever you choose, or are mandated to do, do it completely one way, or the other.
So that there is no half, and half question as to how you are carrying.
Either fully open, or fully concealed, do it right.
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You have to define what you mean when you ask what is open vs what is concealed.
If you are talking about a state where one is legal but the other isn’t, that state’s statutes (and possibly case law) are where you probably want to start (or maybe an attorney or attorney general).
If you want unofficial random people’s opinions, mine would be “concealed means nobody knows or is able to infer that it is there”
If someone can look at you, and point and say “I think that’s a gun” and they are right, it’s not concealed.
At the same time, it might legally meet the definition of concealed if concealed is illegal.
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lol! Necro necropost!
Depends on state, Colorado allows open carry,… but they’re picky about it!
Open carry
Concealed
Also concealed
Properly concealed
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Good example of the difference between legal definitions and real life
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