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Dan W:
 Patrick McGreevy, Los Angeles Times
 September 17, 2011
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-guns-20110917,0,6149742.story

 Reporting from Sacramento— 
On Gov. Jerry Brown's desk is a bid to bar Californians from openly carrying firearms, legislation that could open a new front in the state's decades-old gun control debate.
 The measure, aimed at an increasingly popular tactic used by 2nd Amendment activists, would make California the first state since 1987 to outlaw the controversial practice of publicly displaying a weapon.

The governor — a gun owner — has not taken an official position on the bill, passed by the Legislature last week. He has argued both sides of gun control issues in the past.

Existing  law allows the open carrying of unloaded firearms. The measure before Brown would thwart activists who stage "open carry" demonstrations and want, ultimately, the right to legally display loaded guns. Such aficionados drew national attention last year when they walked into Starbucks outlets in the Bay Area and elsewhere, pistols holstered on their hips.


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bkoenig:
How about a bill requiring pistols carried openly to be loaded.  IMO an unloaded pistol is dangerous because you have nothing to back it up if the bad guy calls your bluff.

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