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General Forums => The O' Club => Topic started by: RUSH1 on October 09, 2025, 11:34:57 AM
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Publix just announced they will allow open carry in their FL stores. Are there any other large companies that allow open carry on their properties?
https://www.newsmax.com/newsfront/publix-florida-open-carry/2025/10/08/id/1229568/
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I always struggle to find any reason someone would want to open carry, besides looking like a sweetheart.
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Just came from the in-laws publix out in the sticks...no one was open carrying but must country folks have a gun or two within reach..
Father in law showed me his ankle holster while we waited for the Lincoln to be serviced last visit..
Eagler
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I like Publix. They have a reasonably decent "British" section.
Mind you I wish they would move the Tetley into the British zone rather than letting it hang out with the "Iced-Tea", it's wrong and disturbing. :old:
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Open carry..........of beer.
Publix fried chicken is schweet!!
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I always avoided stores that were "gun free zones" as I know the criminals didn't follow the laws.
I think it's good that people can protect themselves, however with all the Constitutional states now, I would hope a person could carry concealed instead of having to broadcast that hey were carrying.
My EDC is a pepper spray and a little pocket 380 in the other and I would prefer nobody knew I was carrying it.
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I always struggle to find any reason someone would want to open carry, besides looking like a sweetheart.
This. You're not impressing anyone.
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This. You're not impressing anyone.
This.
I saw lots of dudes open carrying while living in Nevada. They'd waddle around Walmart cosplaying ex-Navy Seals or other SPEC-OPS. I'd say all of 'em were morbidly obese and thus "Gravy Meals" rather than Navy Seals. Open carry is a parade of coulda-shouldas but didn't and couldn't's. It's dumb and who are you trying to impress?
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I was working in Grants NM during Elk season When a hunter became a legend.He entered the local grocery store. He was wearing a bandolier ,a long barreled 44mag and a hunting knife "I don't know if it was Rambo type with compass in handle"
He was being checked out by an old female. After he paid the teller asked him "What is it your afraid of honey?" That's a true story
:banana: :banana:
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Open carry, unless you're a cop, is IMO stupid and here's why.
If you are seen with a gun, you just told them how to attack you to work around it. You allow them to plan,.... like the back of the head plan.
One of my fav sayings on guns is; "ya know how to kill a whacko with a AR-15? Old worn soft quiet tennis shoes, and a .22cal revolver."
You have given away the element of surprise.
It's also shows fear, you can be broken. You are already in that state to open carry in the first place. Fear is the worst enemy, hasty minds.
No offense intended, to each their own, not my circus not my monkeys
When I see someone looking as intimidating as possible? I see fear, they can be broken with the right button. "Please don't challenge me and force me to prove I'm not all that, so if I look like this you won't try".
It will also give you a big stupid mouth, because without it, it's dentist time.
All that left field drivel aside...... most street people are not responsible gun owners. Most hunters are. They go mental, they itch to use it, they walk down dark allies that don't even lead to where they are going. They talk smack in a bar.
Now, how do I know this,...that's why I don't carry at all anymore. I may have done things I would not have done without it on me. Some experiences could have gone south real quick, and didn't need to in the end. SO, I don't even trust myself. If I need a gun to go there, I should not be there. Problems solved.
Obviously I think it's a bad idea, everything around you stirs.