Posted May 14, 2015 7:00 pm by Comments

By Johannes Paulsen

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There are folks who are so opposed to the right of an ordinary citizen to openly carry a firearm while they peacefully go about their business that they’ve taken to calling the police at the sight of a safely holstered firearm, unreasonably claiming fear for their lives with the intent on the part of the gun owner to sow panic. The practice – another variation of “SWAT-ing” – has caused a few issues for innocent people in the past. Several have chronicled this practice, including Charles C.W. Cooke at National Review Online, Chuck Ross at dailycaller.com, and our own Dean Weingarten and Nick Leghorn . . .

Last year, a somewhat analogous event took place in Toledo, Ohio. It might not have been a truly malicious case of “SWAT-ing”, because the “SWAT-er” apparently didn’t understand that open carriage of a firearm is perfectly legal in the Buckeye State, but the end result was that the police wrongly arrested a man who was walking down the street with his wife and pet dog while wearing his sidearm.

The resulting case is Northrup v. City of Toledo Police Department, and <a class="colorbox" href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeffrey_Sutton" target="_blank" …read more

Source:: Truth About Guns

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