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So many San Diegans carry guns
There were questions about the "Request or Demand" issue when confronted by law enforcement in a 12031 check. It's simple. If it's a request, you are under no obligation to incriminate yourself (5th Amendment)by allowing a warrantless search of your person. If the Peace Officer "demands" to inspect your weapon pursuant to 12030 and 12031 you are complying with a direct order and to resist is unlawful. The law also allows Peace Officers to do a "pat down" (Terry search) for weapons,for their safety. Since your firearm is in plain sight it would be reasonable that they would want to assure that it was in fact "unloaded" before they continued their "interview". While I wholeheartedly agree with the open carry message, I have to also agree with the fact that some very bad people out there would just see you as a quick stop gun store (no 10 day wait or background check). They are robbing Armed Security Guards at San Diego Trolly stations of their weapons an spare ammo and their gun are LOADED. Although these guards may not be the sharpest tools in the shed, they all have had BSIS required 16 hours of training and they qualify twice a year. That's more practice/shooting than a lot of CCW holders do. I applaud the Reader and Rosia for a great article, we in the gun culture need more like it. Now the race/color card being played, stop it. First of all nobody should GIVE anyone a gun(s)to walk around with,especially if they are not safety trained. Please are we not above this childish behavior? Inciting violence by wearing shirts that have the "F" bomb on them (regardless of whom they attack)is vile and immature. Stick to the gun issue, open carry. Like or not it is legal. Smart or not, isn't my call. Personally I think it's rather provocative but hey I live in an open carry/concealed carry state and county and open carry (loaded)still scares the sheeple because they don't understand... An Armed Society is a Polite Society.— July 20, 2009 5:36 p.m.