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Message: <blockquote data-quote="mhphoto" data-source="post: 1493450" data-attributes="member: 6288">I got into about unlicensed, 18 year old open carry with my wife and her folks last night. Here's a little something I used as a source to my rebuttals. Out of the 50 states of our great union, 43 allow for the open carry of firearms. CA is one of those, but essentially the law only provides for rural OC (open carry), so we'll take that out. So, 42 states with OC. Of those 42 states, only 14 require permits to OC (UT, MD, MN, IA, HI, TN, IN, MS, BA, MA, CT, RI, NJ, MD). So that leaves 28 states with unlicensed OC, or 56% of America. Of those remaining 28 states, only 1 has an age limit above 18 years of age (NM, age 19). Of the remaining 27 states, 20 of them have the minimum age of 18, 4 of them have an age limit of less than 18, and a further 4 have no statutory age limit. The states that have OC rules similar to what we might soon have in our great state are WA, OR, ID, NV, SD, AZ, CO, NE, KS, WI, MI, LA, AL, OH, PA, WV, DE, NC, VA, and KY.So, to wrap up:Unlicensed OC (28; statutory age in parenthesis): WA (18), OR (18), ID (18), NV (18), SD (18), AZ (18), CO (18), NE (18), KS (18), WI (18), MI (18), LA (17), AL (18), OH (18), PA (18), WV (18), DE (18), NC (18), VA (18), KY (18), AK (14), WY (No age limit), NM (19), MO (No age limit), ME (No age limit), NH (No age limit), and VT (16)Licensed OC (14; statutory age in parenthesis): UT (18), MD (No age limit), MN (No age limit), IA (18), HI (No age limit), TN (No age limit), IN (No age limit), MS (18), GA (No age limit), MA (No age limit), CT (No age limit), RI (No age limit), NJ (No age limit), and MD (No age limit)Effectively no OC (1; statutory age in parenthesis): CA (18)No OC (7): OK, TX, AR, IL, NY, SC, FLSource: <a href="http://opencarry.org/opencarry.html" target="_blank">http://opencarry.org/opencarry.html</a></blockquote>

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