srothstein wrote:Pinkycatcher wrote:It's been decided many times that the mere presence of a firearm does not cause alarm
While I knew you were talking about Texas law, my first thought was to tell that to the soccer mom in Pennsylvania.
If you do have a reference case, I would appreciate it.
According to the threads on opencarry.org and pafoa.org, there is plenty of Pennsylvania case law that firmly establishes that open carrying is not disturbing the peace.
I also remember an incident with Jim Dark from TSRA (IIRC) a couple years ago where he was hassled because someone saw the rifle he was carrying in his car. It was a black powder rifle, so it was not even legally a firearm, but the police were not easily convinced about it.
Yes, he was hassled. The police were wrong. But they weren't so wrong as to arrest him and charge him, because they knew (either beforehand, or learned it during the encounter) that Jim's exposed rifle wasn't a crime.