How to Use open carry in a Sentence

open carry

noun

• And the open carry of firearms on statehouse grounds was legal.
  — Javonte Anderson, USA TODAY, 10 Nov. 2021
• The officer told the woman that the new open carry law had not yet passed.
  — cleveland, 11 Mar. 2022
• And the, there are 32 states that have added open carry this century.
  — NBC News, 21 Nov. 2021
• Virginia is an open carry state; the police just stood on the sidelines.
  — Zack Beauchamp, Vox, 10 Aug. 2018
• In June, a federal judge ruled that Jackson could not ban the open carry of firearms.
  — Priya Krishnakumar, CNN, 28 Dec. 2021
• The city of Denver generally bans the open carry of firearms.
  — Marlene Lenthang, ABC News, 23 Mar. 2021
• All but three states allow for the open carry of handguns, long guns or both, and in many there is little the police can do.
  — Richard Fausset, New York Times, 2 Jan. 2023
• Crawford, holding a BB gun—sold at Walmart—in the open carry state of Ohio, was shot and killed by police.
  — Jason Johnson, The Root, 16 Apr. 2018
• Enobakhare, the oversight chairman, noted that Texas is an open carry state.
  — Dallas News, 29 July 2022
• Michigan’s secretary of state banned the open carry of guns at polling places on Election Day.
  — Rachel Glickhouse, ProPublica, 23 Oct. 2020
• Lawyers for the victim have said Foster was abiding by the state’s open carry law while wearing an AK-47 across his chest.
  — Andrea Marks, Rolling Stone, 7 Apr. 2023
• Most states allow the open carry of firearms, although restrictions vary from state to state.
  — Cliff Pinckard, cleveland, 28 Dec. 2019
• There's open carry so there are citizens with guns all over El Paso and Texas.
  — Dallas News, 8 Aug. 2019
• And just last week, Stephon Clark was shot 20 times and killed for the only-for-black-people offense of open carrying a wallet.
  — Kashana Cauley, The New Republic, 29 Mar. 2018
• Voters in the swing state of Michigan may be allowed to open carry guns in polling places on election day after all.
  — Dustin Gardiner, SFChronicle.com, 28 Oct. 2020
• The state also does not require a background check for allows open carry of firearms in public.
  — Emma Tucker, CNN, 19 Feb. 2023
• And their deaths are not the only two in which open carry laws failed to protect Black people from being shot by police.
  — refinery29.com, 5 July 2020
• The score includes background checks and limits on open carry assault-style weapons.
  — Philly.com, 12 Oct. 2017
• Wisconsin allows the open carry of weapons, which gives citizens the right to be armed in many public places.
  — Arkansas Online, 29 Aug. 2020
• The announcement from the state police came the same day the Michigan Capitol Commission voted to ban the open carry of firearms in the Capitol.
  — Dave Boucher, Detroit Free Press, 11 Jan. 2021
• It was challenged by a man who sought and was denied a permit for open carry for self-protection.
  — Tribune News Service, al, 24 Mar. 2021
• Idaho permits the open carry of firearms, including in the Statehouse.
  — Keith Ridler, Star Tribune, 24 Aug. 2020
• Chili's: The restaurant chain announced in 2014 that customers refrain from open carry.
  — Micah Walker, Detroit Free Press, 11 Sep. 2019
• The group and others have called for an open carry bill to allow gun owners to openly display firearms in public.
  — James Call, USA TODAY, 31 Mar. 2023
• Those restrictions have been in place since 2014, when the Kansas City Council passed a law banning open carry.
  — Ian Cummings and Glenn E. Rice, kansascity, 14 Sep. 2017
• In 2016, the state legalized open carry for permit holders; then the legislature got rid of the need for a permit.
  — Rachel Monroe, The New Yorker, 23 Sep. 2023
• Goltz owned at least one firearm and mentioned Texas is an open carry state, according to court documents.
  — Jose R. Gonzalez, The Arizona Republic, 5 Aug. 2023
• Texas open carry laws do not apply to festival grounds, where no weapons of any kind are permitted.
  — Andrea Mandell, USA TODAY, 3 Oct. 2017
• The state allows open carry and concealed carry for firearms including handguns and rifles.
  — Hannah Pinski, The Courier-Journal, 25 Mar. 2024
• Oliver was charged with two counts of risk of injury to a minor and one count each of first-degree threatening, second-degree breach of peace, permitting a dog to roam and open carry on public property.
  — Staff Report, Hartford Courant, 26 Feb. 2024

Last Updated: 6 Dec 2024