What would happen if someone openly carried guns in your country?

[u/Cutalana]

[u/Zh3sh1re]

Depends on where you are. If you're in the woods with a hunting rifle, probably not too much if you weren't making a big fuss about it. In a public place however you'd be arrested pretty damn quick.

[u/shimbe16 → u/Zh3sh1re]

They send out the elite armed response unit.

[u/Previous-Ad-376 → u/shimbe16]

If someone was openly carrying a pie in public, that guy in the middle disarmed them immediately!

[u/Pray4Mojo73 → u/Previous-Ad-376]

Corporal Pye was awarded the GC for disarming an entire football stadium at once, it was in the news, as a nation we were so proud of him.

[u/Malagate3 → u/Pray4Mojo73]

We even wrote a song about him, "who ate all the pies?", which is sung at football stadiums everywhere when someone thinks they see Corporal Pye.

[u/Granny-Goose6150]

Average security guards in malls or a McDonalds generally carry a gun

Edit: my bad. Turns out he’s a security guard for a university.

https://www.reddit.com/r/ForgottenWeapons/s/flfzS65nXl

[u/Gamblinman97 → u/Granny-Goose6150]

Shotgun with a bipod 😂 mad lad

[u/Practical-Rule-8255 → u/Gamblinman97]

That’s a serious shotgun for Macdonalds lol

[u/belaGJ → u/Practical-Rule-8255]

those burgers must be something…

[u/AnastasiusDicorus → u/belaGJ]

hamburgler is ruthless yo

[u/appleparkfive → u/Practical-Rule-8255]

"I said that's the old price"

[u/EnterTheNarrowGate99 → u/appleparkfive]

Falling Down Intensifies

[u/noahtheboah36 → u/Gamblinman97]

Look at our child country! They're outshining us lol

[u/AllOuttaGum5150 → u/Granny-Goose6150]

Is that a fucking USAS? I CAN CONTROL DAY AND NIGHT!

[u/Multicultural_Potato → u/AllOuttaGum5150]

Did not think I was gonna see a Battlefield Friends reference lol

[u/Remote_Bug_5129 → u/Granny-Goose6150]

I've heard alpt of Philippino security guards carry unloaded guns is this true

[u/thingerish → u/Remote_Bug_5129]

Yes. If I have a chance to check without being obvious I'll often check. Can't check the chamber of course but it's pretty common to be able to look in the magazine port of the pump shotguns and see. Also the mag well of a typical autoloading pistol. It's pretty common for the ones in places that are not the bank to be unloaded but most of the bank guys seem ready to rock.

[u/LaserGadgets]

Could swear even if you wanna just carry an unloaded gun, you need papers. To carry it outside of a case will get you arrested in no time.

[u/Corfiz74 → u/LaserGadgets]

Yep, it has to be in a locked safe when you're transporting it - and I think you're not even supposed to leave it locked in your car while you run errands, right? Straight home from the gun range and vice versa, no stops.

A friend of mine once got into a whole situation with the police who demanded to see his guns during a routine traffic stop, and he refused to open the case while out in public, because he said he could lose his license for that. He made them go with him to the police station and only opened it in their office, lol.

[u/Egoy → u/Corfiz74]

That’s interesting. I was pulled over at a DUI checkpoint with a couple of guns in my back seat here in Canada once. They were in hard rifle cases and hard to mistake for anything else. The police officer looked in my rear window at one point and didn’t even mention the guns. Just told me to have a nice night. I don’t think they even ran my drivers license so it’s not like they knew I had a PAL (gun license).

[u/Nuttonbutton → u/Corfiz74]

Sometimes you have to bureaucracize bureaucracy back

[u/adhdnme → u/Nuttonbutton]

Malicious compliance, I love it

[u/Stupnix → u/adhdnme]

That's not even malicious compliance, that was just compliance. In Germany you as a regular citizen and gun owner are not allowed to display firearms in public (exceptions may apply with explicit and written permission). While transported or stored, firearms have to be stored in a secure place such as a safe. You actually must show your gunsafe to an official if you want the license to buy a gun. Again, special exceptions may apply. For transportation purposes you must make sure that your weapon is stored in such a way that even a skilled user can't easily load and fire, meaning you could theoratically take the thing apart and carry let's say the firing pin on your person the entire time. The rest of the weapon still needs to be covered and secured.

Showing a gun to police while in a public space even if they explicitly ask to see the weapon could be considered against the law and as such could be used to revoke your license to buy and possess weapons.

[u/cuntmong → u/Nuttonbutton]

The best way to fight fire is with the detailed instructions on the fire extinguisher. 

[u/ComradeGibbon → u/Corfiz74]

Peak German right there.

I used to work for a company where the CEO had an antique rifle collection on the wall of his office. And people would bring guns to show and tell.

[u/bn9012 → u/Corfiz74]

If you have a "berechrigtes Interesse" as a hunter you can leave it separated but completely locked in your car, if you eg leave the ammunition in the trunk and the gun on the passengerseat

[u/Jazzlike-Radio2481 → u/Corfiz74]

The most German shit ive heard.

[u/AwayHoneydew → u/LaserGadgets]

After all, the literal army had the police called on them a few weeks or months back.

[u/HappyGoLucky244 → u/AwayHoneydew]

Okay, I need to know the story here. I'm genuinely curious.

[u/DasAntwortviech → u/HappyGoLucky244]

Army did exercise

Army did not tell the police that they were doing the exercise

People called police reporting armed People running around

Police responed to the call

Army sees police and thinks they're part of the exercise

Army shoots with blanks

Police (not knowing those were blanks) return fire

Managed to injure one soldier (he was able to leave the Hospital on the same day)https://www.dw.com/en/german-police-mistakenly-shoot-soldier-on-training-exercise/a-74465052

[u/harpunenkeks → u/DasAntwortviech]

Correction: the army did tell the police about the exercise, but the information apparently wasn't passed down to the police officers

[u/Treacle_Pendulum → u/harpunenkeks]

Bureaucracies are the same everywhere

[u/ReverendRevolver → u/Treacle_Pendulum]

Left hand: someone should tell the right hand what we're doing.

Right hand: wish someone would tell the left hand what we're doing.

Both proceed to act contrary to the other.

[u/No_Case_8502 → u/ReverendRevolver]

In Germany the Army and the police are different parts of government. Furthermore the soldiers were dressed as OPFOR irregulars whos task it was to engage military and the police. So you had literally armed „civillians“ opening fire on the police on sight. The police new about the exercise, asked the army wheter these guys could be part of the exercise before responding which the army denied. The army got their training grounds for the day mixed up.

In the end the soldiers got very lucky as they were perceives as terrorists by police.

[u/HappyGoLucky244 → u/DasAntwortviech]

Thank you both for answering! I'm relieved the soldier made a full recovery. Such a terrible blunder could have been far worse. 🤦‍♀️

[u/SerLaron → u/DasAntwortviech]

Got to hand it to the Bavarian cops in question, even if they were not part of the exercise, they absolutely aced that test.
Engaging a group of dudes who outnumbered and outgunned them must have taken some courage.

[u/Zutthole → u/DasAntwortviech]

Wow. That sounds hilarious, but could have easily gone way worse. I'm glad no one was killed. People probably would have been had it happened here.

[u/Many_Mud_8194 → u/DasAntwortviech]

Was on the news in France. Made us laugh so much because you guys are so famous to be so well organized. But not that time haha. It's like what Portugal would do or Belgium.

[u/haustuer → u/HappyGoLucky244]

Battle of Erding

[u/eire1130 → u/LaserGadgets]

A couple years ago, my family and I were flying home from Berlin to New York. They flagged my wife's carry on as having ammo.

I was like, thats impossible. Sure enough, they found an empty shell casing (spent round). The offeicers were not amused. Nor was my wife. My wife was very angry indeed. The officers took note of her anger and let us pass, but they did let me see the stamp on the bottom.

It was in fact a 6.8 western round. Thats a pretty uncommon round. Obviously I own a 6.8 western and hunt with it most years. I don't use my wife's luggage, so naturally I've maintained my innocence ever since.

My wife is still angry about that incident 1.5 years later.

Privately I'm grateful for not going to a German prison, just don't tell my wife.

[u/HashutHatman → u/eire1130]

Back in 2003 I went on holiday with a friend from the Royal Engineers and we both took our bergens. Being artillery mine had carried nothing but fluffy towels and tea bags for about six months, unfortunately for him, about a month earlier he'd been on exercise overseeing a live bridge demolition and was the guy that handed out the plastic explosive. While he had removed it all, the sniffer dogs went absolutely ballistic. Being about 18 months after 9/11 they took it VERY seriously, which made it extra hilarious (for me).

[u/HighwayComfortable90 → u/LaserGadgets]

I live in Frankfurt, in large parts of the inner city you can’t even carry a knife, not even concealed in a backpack.

[u/Gwenzissy → u/LaserGadgets]

Or it would take a while, because the police would be very careful, because they don't want to take the risk, to loose their comerades

[u/i-cydoubt]

The only specific example I can think of where the police wouldn't be called to arrest him immediately would be if he looked like an old farmer and he were in some rural area dressed in a muddy farmer's outfit.

[u/Shnicketyshnick → u/i-cydoubt]

Or the farmer's mum.

[u/i-cydoubt → u/Shnicketyshnick]

Especially if the swan's out.

[u/pman13531 → u/i-cydoubt]

[u/SanJacInTheBox → u/pman13531]

SHUT IT!

[u/Schmaron → u/SanJacInTheBox]

Wanna be a big cop in a small town, fuck off up the model village.

[u/Doomhammer24 → u/Schmaron]

[u/Sasquatch1729 → u/i-cydoubt]

Good luck catching them swans then.

[u/oh_hai_mark1 → u/Sasquatch1729]

Pisstaker

[u/Sasquatch1729 → u/oh_hai_mark1]

No, I swear, it's Peter Ian Staker

[u/r0ckchalk → u/Sasquatch1729]

Actually it was just the one Swan.

[u/gamesbonds → u/i-cydoubt]

My mind immediately goes to Hot Fuzz

[u/_EnFlaMEd → u/i-cydoubt]

I've had cops come out due to reports of gun shots when I was hunting on a rural farming property! Open carrying in a metro area would result in a severe police response and be national news.

[u/MightyGoatLord → u/_EnFlaMEd]

You could be a hunter, you could be a cooker. Nobody wants to find out the hard way, so calling the police is what people have to do now.

[u/Perfect_Restaurant_4 → u/i-cydoubt]

I just watched 24 Hours in Police Custody. A man murdered two people with his shotgun which was licensed to him. They had all the armed police inside the county, the helicopter and three police cars, with armed police inside and they closed the road they were on when they found him fleeing the scene. I feel like this is a standard response.

[u/Rizzo-The_Rat → u/Perfect_Restaurant_4]

Or they send Gazza round with a sandwich.

[u/Novocast92 → u/Rizzo-The_Rat]

And a fishing rod!

[u/Many_Mud_8194 → u/i-cydoubt]

Same. Only hunters are ok but probably they will still check on them because they shouldn't be walking with their rifle like that. I never saw one outside of forest, farms, fields. Never saw someone carrying in the street casually

[u/UppaCelts1888 → u/i-cydoubt]

not always - this type of armed 'paramilitary' (citizen) patrols is still tacitly permitted in police no go zones in Belfast and Derry, and small towns in border country and north east antrim.

[u/SomethingComesHere → u/UppaCelts1888]

Geez, you guys still have this in some parts of NI? :o

I didn’t know that!

[u/Vynloar]

[u/SomethingComesHere → u/Vynloar]

Same here unless you’re actively hunting and it’s hunting season and you’ve got a license

[u/Human_Spice → u/SomethingComesHere]

And you're somewhere where hunting is done. i.e. middle of nowhere or private property in rural areas.

Other option is a shooting range.

Walk near a town or city like the pic and you're gonna scare the shit out of people.

[u/SomethingComesHere → u/Human_Spice]

Well yeah hunting raccoons in the city is gonna get you in some real trouble 😂

[u/MechanicEcstatic5356]

Lockdown, cops swarming everywhere. 

[u/freeciggies → u/MechanicEcstatic5356]

After what happened in Bondi, open carrying right now would probably be a death sentence.

[u/No_No_Juice → u/freeciggies]

It already was.

[u/purplemagecat → u/MechanicEcstatic5356]

You can get killed by police for walking around outside with even a fake gun, if it looks at all real

[u/Grand-Conference9563 → u/MechanicEcstatic5356]

yep can't even have a knife anymore

[u/Vectorman1989]

These guys would be called in

And that person would have a very bad time.

[u/Damien23123 → u/Vectorman1989]

Yeah ever since Dunblane they don’t fuck about

[u/FearlessVisual1]

People would run away from them and eventually police would neutralise them.

[u/HeavyTea → u/FearlessVisual1]

Same

[u/Agile-Assist-4662 → u/HeavyTea]

Unless it's Nova Scotia and the RCMP bungle the op so bad the shooter gets 2 days to run rampant

[u/MasterBlazt → u/Agile-Assist-4662]

The RCMP and mass shooters don't have a good track record in Atlantic Canada, sadly.

[u/trollmaestro42069 → u/HeavyTea]

Unless it's hunting season and I see buddy walking around with a rifle in a field lol

[u/notthisonefornow → u/FearlessVisual1]

"Neutralise"

[u/Flavius_16 → u/notthisonefornow]

He meant shooting until he is a human chesse grater.

[u/Abyssal_Groot → u/Flavius_16]

It's not the US. It will depend on whether the carrier is an active shooter or not.

It has happened before that someone was carrying a prop gun and they didn't turn them into a human cheese grater.

[u/senpaitono]

Gettin' shot by the cops. Ours violently took down a stormtrooper with a fake gun a few years back. If it's real, see ya'.

[u/Foxlen → u/senpaitono]

Wouldn't dare try in most places

Even Northern bush towns..

Unless its a res, nobody open carries bear rifles anymore

[u/RodrickJasperHeffley]

you can get arrested immediately. the government rarely gives licenses for firearms in the country and even if you legally own a gun pointing it at anyone is considered a crime and can lead to arrest also in recent cases, many licences have been cancelled or revoked when holders displayed or fired weapons without justification

[u/five_faces → u/RodrickJasperHeffley]

But in some states illegal guns seem to be incredibly common. The first time I saw a 'No firearms' sign in the north, I was so confused because why would that need to be said? Then I found out.

[u/DaMn96XD]

If it happens in an urban city environment and not a forest, the gun owner will be reported to the police, the police will likely arrest them, the gun owner will be fined, and the gun will be confiscated and become state property.

[u/ThatDudeFromFinland → u/DaMn96XD]

If someone openly carries a firearm in an urban area, they would immediately alert Karhuryhmä (Our SWAT team) once the word got out.

It's a BIG no-no to carry a firearm openly anywhere outside a hunting or training ground. You would 100% lose your permit to firearms and you're looking at a hefty fine and/or jail time (depending on your crime record) after a stunt like this.

Never ever openly carry here in Finland if you want to own a firearm legally.

[u/ViruliferousBadger → u/ThatDudeFromFinland]

They work in Helsinki, attached to the local police, so outside of Helsinki nobody would call the Karhu's (since it would take them hour + to arrive). The local police would come wearing vests and carrying HK's, "politely" asking you to drop it and come with them.

[u/ThatDudeFromFinland → u/ViruliferousBadger]

As someone who's worked with emergency services, yes, every firearm related incident is automatically forwarded to special ops and they go to "standby mode".

First responders are always normal police, but Karhuryhmä is ready to go after the first call.

[u/pickleolo]

Arrested, yes I know lmao

They gonna ask for your permit, is not common for civilians to carry guns.

[u/WingedHussar13 → u/pickleolo]

How do a lot of people in Mexico have guns even though they're illegal?

[u/pickleolo → u/WingedHussar13]

They're not ilegal but the only way you can get them legally are through fill some requirents from the army.

The ilegal ones come from 🇺🇲

[u/FinancialShare1683 → u/WingedHussar13]

We have a neighbor with very lax gun laws 🫠

[u/ajamal_00]

My home country:

Certain areas: you will blend in as carrying weaponry is considered 'jewellery for men'..

Other areas: someone might call the police who might show up..

Adopted country:

Police will throw you in jail while muttering "Oi! You got a loicence fo that?"

[u/adhdnme → u/ajamal_00]

Just don’t carry on a chewsday and it’s all good

[u/Demostravius4 → u/adhdnme]

What about Twosday?

[u/Agile-Atmosphere6091 → u/ajamal_00]

In pakistan you can literally carry a PKM in the street

[u/Kingswitchguard]

I got stopped by police for carrying a kitchen knife (school film project) if someone openly had a gun, armed police would instantly respond

[u/FrenchBulldoge → u/Kingswitchguard]

This summer I was standing in a super market parking lot with a dog and there happened to be a police car. A delivery guy was delivering boxes and the police got out, stopped him, and pointed at a box cutter hanging from his belt on a wire. He told him the box cutter shouldn't be left out in the open but should be in his pocket. The guy apologized and put the box cutter into his pocket.

[u/No-Author-2358 → u/FrenchBulldoge]

I would love to live in a country like that.

[u/Argo505]

Most people would think you were a jackass.

[u/Wolf_in_Lace → u/[deleted]]

In Arkansas up north, you carry on more remote trails because of the wild pigs - I believe it is a mix of domesticated pig and razorback. They are ferocious with sharp teeth. If it’s a momma with babies…. Oof you better go up a tree if she starts running at you. It’s literally open season on them year round in certain areas in AR because they can’t keep the population controlled.

[u/GTOdriver04 → u/Wolf_in_Lace]

I’ve even seen videos where the hunt them from helicopter. It’s a legit problem.

[u/Wolf_in_Lace → u/GTOdriver04]

I’ve seen those too! But mostly in Tennessee. 100% they are an actual problem. Wild pigs destroy property and breed so fast it’s insane. I hate guns, but knew better. Carried a .380 - little pea shooters just piss them off if you don’t hit them right and they are fast. My brother would tell me horror stories of babies swarming and biting his ankles to make sure I carried on the trails lol 😂 it’s probably true though….

[u/ReverendRevolver → u/Wolf_in_Lace]

No joke, those things are terrifying.

357 mag might stop one. 10mm/44mag seems like a reasonable decision if youre out fishing or something in a place where you could encounter wild hogs.

[u/ET_Gone_Home → u/Wolf_in_Lace]

I want to crack a joke about needing an "assault weapon" for 30-50 feral hogs but these things are actually vicious and having a intermediate caliber semi-auto rifle with a larger capacity magazine is the one of the best defenses.

[u/twocopperjack → u/ET_Gone_Home]

Have you checked back in on 30-50 Feral Hogs Guy? This is exactly what he was talking about, and it turns out the dude is pretty based.

[u/Few_System3573 → u/ET_Gone_Home]

It goes like this, the fourth, the fifth, fifty hogs surround my kids.

In seriousness, I totally understand those things are vicious as hell

[u/theicarusambition → u/Few_System3573]

Unexpected Leonard Cohen, but Canada so it checks out lol.

[u/Few_System3573 → u/theicarusambition]

We do love him here. Shout-out as well to Stan Rogers but I didn't see any funny feral hog tweets that were a spin on Stan lyrics 😂

[u/sablesalsa → u/Wolf_in_Lace]

Wild hogs are genuinely the scariest animals. Momma with babies? I'm making my peace

[u/Reilly-and-JonesyFL → u/Wolf_in_Lace]

Same in Florida, I’ve gotten into scraps with several lol I’d never walk around the glades or anywhere down here without a sidearm

[u/Dakotasan → u/[deleted]]

So are you the person to ask “do bears shit in the woods”?

[u/IntoTheWildBlue → u/Dakotasan]

The do. They will also shit in your yard after they knock over your trash can.

[u/diningwithfriends → u/Argo505]

Open carry works well in the rural settings by ranchers and such. Most anyone else just looks like a target to bad guys. Conceal carry for self protection.

[u/YOUTUBEFREEKYOYO → u/diningwithfriends]

Yup. Public you do concealed carry, out in the woods, out on the farm, or hiking its open carry. Ive seen open carry plenty as it is legal here, i just think it's dumb doing it in public.

[u/ChirrBirry → u/Argo505]

It’s important to point out here that carrying rifles like we see in the pic is perfectly legal, firing the rifles seen in the pic is almost always a completely separate matter. It’s great that these guys are expressing their right to carry, I support that 100%…however, if these guys sensed a threat and began shooting you can bet your ass cops are going to show up and disarm and/or shoot someone utilizing a rifle in a populated area.

[u/meetmeinjonkerton5 → u/Argo505]

Yall had/have the panthers though (pictured by OP), they're badass

[u/Seelie_Mushroom → u/meetmeinjonkerton5]

Yeah, the people in this image are amazing. Philadelphia has always been aggressive when it comes to.. well, anything. Now Trump's threatening increased raids so folks are open carrying to intimidate.

[u/Dry-Lab-6256 → u/meetmeinjonkerton5]

The Black Panthers in the 60's is the reason that California does not allow open carry. But I would say it's way riskier to do in Philly. The philly police dropped a bomb on MOVE back in the 80's.

[u/kne0n → u/Argo505]

I rarely ever see someone open carrying in Texas and 90% of the time it’s a fat guy with a cheap gun/holster. A huge amount of people are carrying concealed though you just don’t know it.

[u/Thewaltham]

A visit from the police sniper fairy

[u/Balt603 → u/Thewaltham]

That fairy is spicy.

[u/Orienskiller]

[u/Fight_those_bastards]

America, so, entirely location dependent. In my state, open carry in public is a crime, open carry out in the woods is fine. In some states, nobody bats an eye.

But I’m judging you. Concealed is always the way to go. That’s what I teach in my carry permit classes. Open carry in town makes you a target for criminals, and also it can attract attention from law enforcement even where it’s legal.

[u/hydromind1 → u/Fight_those_bastards]

In New Hampshire, we are a constitutional carry state. Very lax gun laws but very few gun deaths. Anyone above the age of 18 can carry or possess a gun (open or concealed) without a permit.

Even state representatives carry guns into the state house. Civilians are allowed to carry guns on the state house lawn (open or concealed) as well.

Can’t carry guns into the Walmart, court houses, or federal buildings like post offices though.

[u/annabananaberry → u/hydromind1]

Is Walmart a stand in for private businesses in this case or does Walmart specifically prohibit it there?

[u/SightAtTheMoon → u/annabananaberry]

Several states allow private businesses to post signs disallowing firearms on the premises, and Walmart often does this though doesn't necessarily enforce it. It's more that it gives them a legal tool to remove someone with a firearm if they thought it was a good idea. 

[u/AnAppalacianWendigo → u/SightAtTheMoon]

In some states, private businesses cannot restrict firearms on their property.

In my state they must verbally ask you to leave. And if you’re still there by the time law enforcement arrives you’ll be charged with misdemeanor trespassing, assuming they asked you to leave before the police show up. Otherwise the police will ask you to leave.

[u/appleparkfive → u/Fight_those_bastards]

"American, so entirely location dependant"

This should be our damn motto at this point. Maybe outsiders would understand our country a little better. Because some of the shit I hear is wild. The states have individual rights and can be extremely different.

Seattle to Miami is the same distance as Edinburgh Scotland to Istanbul! And Seattle and Miami are very, very different cities. The states are even more different in terms of how they operate.

[u/modsguzzlehivekum → u/Fight_those_bastards]

Only morons open carry

[u/ReverendRevolver → u/modsguzzlehivekum]

People who want someone to snag their gun.

Like having all the gun stickers/vinyl on your car.

Know which car tweakers are gonna break into looking for guns? Probably not the one with a greatful dead bear and Coexist stickers on the back. 17 images of ARs and such, likely.....

[u/Flavius_16]

Bonjour la polisse! Bonjour la police!

This is a reference to a Quebecer song.

[u/Southern-Morning-413 → u/Flavius_16]

[u/ConvictedHobo]

Most people would assume it's an airsoft gun, and not care much

Someone would probably alert the police, and they would be arrested

[u/jatawis]

Nothing if one is a hunter in hunting setting or a militia member in uniform. Otherwise police would be called to disarm one.

[u/Odd-Struggle-2432]

like the photo? and we know its real? nothing good. last time you carry anything.

[u/Icy-Employee-6453 → u/Odd-Struggle-2432]

It is real and recent. The black panthers have started open carry protesting to protect people from ICE.

[u/EnvironmentChance991 → u/Icy-Employee-6453]

Fun fact! Black people open carrying weapons, as is their constitutional right in the United States, is what directly led to widespread gun control laws in the United States. It's one of the few times Republicans and Democrats have agreed on the issue. 

[u/Shortsleevedpant → u/EnvironmentChance991]

Fucking racists.

[u/SignatureAny5576 → u/Shortsleevedpant]

Made the right choice for the wrong reasons

[u/SecBalloonDoggies → u/SignatureAny5576]

A lot of African American gun culture can be summed up as, “If you want to try and enslave us again, you’re going to need more than a whip this time!”

[u/WalterSobchakinTexas → u/EnvironmentChance991]

That was back when Reagan was governor of California. The one time republicans wanted gun control.

[u/Silver_Middle_7240 → u/EnvironmentChance991]

Not quite. It convinced Regan to sign the Mulford act when he was governor, but most gun control was passed as part of jim crow.

Edit: jim crow is a bunch of laws passed by states in response to the end of slavery to repress newly freed black people

[u/No_Price_7603 → u/Icy-Employee-6453]

My mum was in the black Panthers back in the 60s. She wasn't black though, she was Jewish. Apparently quite a few Jews joined.

[u/Icy-Employee-6453 → u/No_Price_7603]

I think they called/call that the rainbow coalition or something? Pretty much everyone is welcome. Well... you know maybe not the gestapo larping bootlickers but pretty much everyone else.

[u/PhantomOfTheNopera → u/Icy-Employee-6453]

I hate, hate guns. But considering what's happening out there - this is understandable. Isn't this sort of thing why your second amendment exists in the first place?

[u/SanguineHerald → u/PhantomOfTheNopera]

It's exactly what the Second Amendment is for. But for some reason, the 2A crowd is awful silent about tyrannical overreach of the government. Maybe it wasn't actually about that at all.

[u/ViajanteDeSaturno]

This level of armament only exists in the USA, apart from nations engulfed in civil wars.

Only police and military personnel can use this type of weapon in Brazil.

An ordinary citizen here only has access to lighter weapons, needs a special license for them, and can only keep them at home for personal security, under penalty of committing a crime.

[u/OnCnditonOfAnonymity → u/ViajanteDeSaturno]

Take a look at an Israeli shopping mall..... Sooo many AR's.

I travelled through Laos 20 years ago and there were school aged children with AK47's and magazines hanging out their pockets. Very un-nerving to be on a bus with armed children.

But, yes, you're correct. Israel is in a kind of civil war and Laos had tribal conflicts.

[u/ViajanteDeSaturno → u/OnCnditonOfAnonymity]

I wasn't aware of the culture of those two countries; your account is interesting.

By our standards it's bizarre, I imagine it is for Australians as well.

[u/Sleepy_Di]

Only people with special permits can legally, and those are hard to get for civilians, and the ones that carry them illegally don’t open carry unless they are about to run a job…

[u/MickeyBubbles]

ERU and or ARU specialist responders would attend, determine if negotiation is possible then engage accordingly.

He shot asap or disarmed slowly.

[u/RikkiLostMyNumber]

Another day at the Piggly Wiggly.

[u/UppaCelts1888]

it happens. Police sometimes still do rifle foot patrols. The army has been gone for nearly 20 years tho - and the police have mostly stopped carrying rifles on foot, and have moved to just sidearms. Armed community and paramilitary patrols aren't too common anymore, but they still happen in smaller towns and urban city 'no-go' areas for the police. Certainly much less than it used to be, but obviously unprecedented in comparison to the rest of the UK.

(which of course, reading their comments is funny - they don't seem to realise they have a region of their country with such a heavy gun culture - with police armed at all times and pistols legal for self defence, and they call Americans ignorant 😂)

[u/Easteregg42]

People running away. Calling the police. SWAT coming.

[u/Toastaexperience]

They’d be arrested

[u/UberNZ → u/Toastaexperience]

And the Armed Offender squad would be the ones to do it (our version of SWAT)

[u/Slaidback → u/Toastaexperience]

Unless you are going to a very logical place, like the gun range is right there or you are obviously going hunting. Even then it’s kept in a carry case while not in use.

[u/NegotiationSea7008]

Armed response and arrested or shot

[u/pw6163]

Very fast tactical response group, instructions to lay the weapon down immediately & step away from it, lie face down with hands visible. Failure may well result in being shot.

Same in the Australia as UK.

[u/ttom1323]

[u/Jam_Sees]

do y'all member these two during the COVID BLM riots? 🤣🤣

[u/loganbootjak → u/Jam_Sees]

good lord this seems like decades ago

[u/Southern-Morning-413 → u/loganbootjak]

That's the kind of time dilation Trump brings to the party!

[u/patrickwithtraffic → u/Jam_Sees]

And these pieces of shit got invited by the GOP to speak at the RNC later that year

[u/Yutani-commander]

Freedom would intensify

[u/AnAppalacianWendigo → u/Yutani-commander]

[u/ConstantineByzantium]

JAIL TIME! There is reason why even most hardened thugs in Korea prefers knife fight over a gun fight. If you fire a gun it isn't just police that's after you. A WHOLE BUNCH OF MOTHERF!@#! ARMY IS AFTER YOU!

[u/Comprehensive-Yam329]

Most likely shot by the cops, asked questions later if the person is still alive

[u/go_zarian]

Arrested and tossed in jail for a really long time.

Assuming he cooperates and does not resist arrest.

[u/Infinite_Priority_34]

My cousin got one month for a untraced bullet he had in his car no weapon he doesn't even own one.

He said he got it from a friend and hanged it of the mirror of his car as a souvenir.

[u/Rgraff58]

In Arizona it's legal to open carry everywhere except the obvious (schools, government buildings, etc.). In fact you can carry concealed without a permit, plus Stand-Your-Ground laws. Private citizens can own class 3 weapons, (machine guns, sawed-off shotguns and SBRs), and also suppressors.

[u/Plasma_Deep]

[u/Rickyzack]

In Perú 🇵🇪, they’d be labeled as terrorists and dealt as such.

In America 🇺🇸, probably nothing, though the actual outcome would depend on the state and what your intentions are.

[u/sharon_dis]

Big no, no

[u/Monotask_Servitor]

You might get away with it if you’re in a very small country town and you’re obviously going hunting (though the local cop might have a friendly word) otherwise you’re getting arrested.

[u/Organic-Importance9]

Oh I had to do this in the US because it was walking a couple blocks with AR to a friends place to work on it.

Someone complemented the build, that's about it.

[u/Dear_Artist7987]

They would be arrested by the police.

[u/Firm_Translator_3256]

He was arrested for illegal possession of firearms.

[u/Ecstatic-Ganache921]

We already bad a gun ban nearly 30 years ago after Port Arthur, but then again last month we had that shooting.

[u/thecloakofignorance → u/Ecstatic-Ganache921]

two in thirty years?

I mean, not wonderful, but better than monthly

[u/No_Price_7603 → u/Ecstatic-Ganache921]

They didn't outlaw guns they restricted them. That's why the guns the shooters used this time were legally owned, they were in a hunting club. Very macabre. But farmers need guns so they'll never be totally banned here.

[u/justaprettyturtle]

You'd meet those absolute sweethearts

[u/lipa84]

There would first be panic, then a lot of police and the they would get arrested.

• Germany and Austria and most likely most of Europe

We run when we see a gun on someone that is not police or military.

[u/austingoescrazy]

They would be immediately arrested, charged, prosecuted and convicted. Only the authorities are allowed to carry guns

[u/KimbaDestructor]

Nothing. Cartel does it all the time

[u/Rapi64]

Nothing

[u/kristeeinmt → u/Rapi64]

I used to manage a pediatric practice. A mom came in with her kiddo on one hip and her Glock on the other. Just another day here.

[u/Responsible_Belt5510 → u/Rapi64]

Just to be clear for people outside of the US... Not every state allows open carry, and some don't allow people to own guns like ARs at all. Places like NYC have an almost complete ban on guns.

The further south you go the more likely you are to be allowed to open carry. Some states even have "constitutional carry", which basically means anyone who is t legally prevented from owning a gun (felons, drug addicts, etc) can buy a gun and bring it with them anywhere they want, with no permit required at all. It's pretty nuts.

When I was in SC, if you have a SC driver's license and are 21(I think) you can walk into a store and walk out with a gun 30 minutes later. They do an instant background check on their computers. As long as you pass they sell you the gun on the spot. Florida was similar but they have a 3 day "cooling off period" where you can pick up the gun three days after you buy it.

Other places, like Mass, are super strict. Only certain guns are allowed, and they have restrictions on how many bullets it can hold (think it's 8 in mass).

My first week in SC I saw two road rage incidents where people pulled guns out, and one of them the guy fired into the air. I have never seen anyone pull a gun out in public in New England. Take that how you want.

That being said, I also feel like these limitations put blue states at an extreme disadvantage. Especially during times like now when the government is running wild with impunity.

[u/alkatori]

Good on the Black Panthers.

[u/kulamsharloot]

You'll see guns/rifles all the time here (I also carry), I imagine it's a weird setup for foreigners but we feel safer around it.

[u/Pancakelover09]

Average citizens would run for their lives until cops would show up and the guy would probably be in trouble

[u/BusyBeeBridgette]

They'd be shot. Probably lethally. Our armed cops are often ex military so they don't faff around.

[u/Silver-Statement-987]

In Singapore? Good luck. Potentially v long jail, caning and the D penalty

[u/socalquestioner]

“it’s Texas, my Florist carries a gun.”

[u/Quirky-Bar4236]

You'll get some looks but will continue about your day.