Posted August 31, 2015 6:00 pm by Comments

By Johannes Paulsen

AK AG Leslie Rutledge (courtesy swtimes.com)

On August 22, a man named Richard Chambless was arrested in Bald Knob, Arkansas, a hamlet north east of Little Rock, thrown in the klink, and on the 26th, was sentenced to one year of probation and ordered to pay a fine of $2,160.00. Why? For the crime of openly carrying a handgun into a local McDonald’s restaurant, where he stopped to get a drink. According to Arkansas Code § 5-73-120 . . .

a person “commits the offense of carrying a weapon if he or she possesses a handgun, knife, or club on or about his or her person….” Persons who have an Arkansas Concealed Handgun Carry License (or have a license issued by another state,) can carry a concealed firearm, but the Natural State did not license the ordinary citizenry to openly carry a firearm. It also lists a number of exceptions under which possession of a handgun is permissible, such as: a person being on a “journey” beyond her home county, or being a law enforcement officer acting in the scope of his official duties.

At least, that was the case until 2013, when the Arkansas Legislature passed Act …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns

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