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
  • Kansas City is one of them, meaning open carry is more restricted than concealed carry within city limits.
    Natalie Wallington, Kansas City Star, 19 Jan. 2024

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