"Gunner" wrote in message
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If you count the states with unpermited open carry..I believe you will
get 25 or over.

Depending on how you define "permit," the number is well over 25...except
that you can't carry openly on many of the "streets" of many of them. See
below.

If you will note..the foot notes indicated if they
have ccw, if a ccw permit is required to carry openly (some do) but
the ones which have true open carry, no restrictions, no permits are
there.

Not correct. Several that allow open carry without CCW also require permits
to purchase.

The DoJ list is just a guideline, a place to start. Then you have to read
the relevant laws for each of the 50 states. I did. In some cases, the DoJ
summaries are misleading.

But there is no way that you can come up with 25 states in which open carry
isn't either restricted by local laws, or in which permits aren't required,
if you use a literal definition of "permits." That's why I allowed some
latitude in trying to come close to "Andrew Ford's" number. Richard did,
too. He had to include states that have varying amounts of local restriction
on open carry, or which have local requirements for permits.

For example, Kansas. Most cities and large towns in Kansas either require a
permit to purchase, or disallow open carry, or both. It makes "Ford's"
number a little silly at best. It would be interesting to know what states
he had in mind...especially the ones that allow "anyone" to buy a gun.


I posted them with the footnotes so as not to be accused of
dishonesty.

I didn't say you were dishonest, Gunner. It's just that the footnotes don't
tell the whole story.

Ed Huntress