Colorado is an open carry state. How would you know if someone carrying a gun in an open

[JohnSJ]

carry state is a law abiding citizen, or a killer?

[Hoyt]

1. You don't and the police don't check anyone because that is all they'd

have time to do there.

Public toting needs to be banned — with limited exceptions— everywhere. Then, if you see someone with a gun, you know they are up to no good.

[gldstwmn]

2. Hi, it is illegal to open carry in many places here

and illegal in Boulder.

[JohnSJ]

5. What about parking lots?

[gldstwmn]

6. Yup.

[LizBeth]

3. I told my boss, open carry or not someone comes into lobby with an Ak whatever over should I walk

out and call police and deal with it afterwards but with people getting angry at me with no fault to me? I am not risking my life.

[KT2000]

4. Washington State too

We have had incidents of men carrying weapons into local stores. If I see that - I am out of there. Open Carry is just plain stupid.

[Claustrum]

9. I never understood open carry.

Why would you need to carry a gun into the deli, the gas station, or a supermarket? I am not against owning guns but there is no reason to carry your gun to every place you go. It's not about taking away your freedom but just keeping everyone safe in the most common sense way.

[krispos42]

12. Your own personal protection is reason to carry a gun

But open carry, that is, no concealing your gun, should not be allowed in cities and town.

It should be limited to handguns, and they should be concealed underneath clothing or in a purse or something.

[Crunchy Frog]

14. They're compensating for shortcomings in their lives.

[hlthe2b]

7. Denver and other Home Rule cities (including Boulder) CAN OUTLAW Open Carry. Courts have upheld

the ordinance that Denver passed. Home Rule designation gives a city the right to pass its own ordinances on this and other matters. I'm not sure which have.

[sop]

8. These insane open carry laws are the ultimate perversion of the 2nd Amendment.

[Generic Brad]

10. I live in a Second Amendment sanctuary city town

I just assume everyone has a gun. And I’m real polite in public.

[krispos42]

11. Open carry should not be permitted within city or town limits

If I was to write this law, it would look something like this:

"Open carry of any firearm is illegal on any public property or right-of-way in any incorporated municipality, except as required for on-duty sworn law-enforcement officers."

I guess you could put in some clause about a declared emergency being an exception.


Short answer is, you don't. But "open carry" doesn't mean "permitless carry", it means non-concealed carry. I'm a gun owners with a concealed-pistol permit, and I don't think open carry should be legal.

Like all aspects of life, you don't really know what the person next to you is going to do at any given moment.

[Wingus Dingus]

13. I see that all the time. I don't know what to do except study the demeanor

of the person with the gun. It's very unsettling.