Posted: 1/2/2011 8:28:36 PM EDT
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From what I understand my FL Concealed Weapons license will now allow me to carry concealed in Iowa.
But does it also allow me to open carry? Or must it be concealed? |
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Iowa law will now recognize your permit. Iowa does allow open carry. However it is recommended, by those of us who have fought so long to get shall issue, that folks carry concealed. There is a lot of the media feeding frenzy mentality whipping up fear and anxiety among the sheeple population. If you decide to open carry in public be ready to be confronted by law enforcement b/c someone called in man with a gun.
It has always been legal to open carry but we just have to many liberals here for it to be feasible at least for now. We appreciate your asking and hope your experience is pleasant. |
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From what I understand my FL Concealed Weapons license will now allow me to carry concealed in Iowa. Iowa residents MUST have an Iowa permit to carry here. Out-of-state people can have any state permit they want. I'm not an Iowa resident, I just have family there and visit several times a year. In Iowa, unlike FL you can reasonably conceal carry due to regular need for things like jackets. I was asking about the open carry provision for those instances where I'm carrying and not wearing a jacket like when I'm driving and need to step out of the car to do something quick and might forget to take the jacket with me. I've almost done it a couple times when pumping gas for instance. |
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Yes, as a non-Iowa resident, your FL permit is recognized here in Iowa.
As has been pointed out already, yes open carry is legal but we are NOT advising anyone do so at this time. To answer your question though, no you won't be breaking the law if you step out of your car momentarily and forget your cover garment, no worries. |
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Yes, as a non-Iowa resident, your FL permit is recognized here in Iowa. As has been pointed out already, yes open carry is legal but we are NOT advising anyone do so at this time. To answer your question though, no you won't be breaking the law if you step out of your car momentarily and forget your cover garment, no worries. Thank you for the info. And while I understand the open carry concern, given that local media will literally go hunting for the scariest looking people they can find with an open carry weapon so they can show just how dangerous this "new right" actually is, the fact that it is a concern for us is incredibly sad. In the early 1950s when my father and his brother were both still pre teens they walked to the store in their small Iowa town and each purchased a military rifle without their parents. My father bought a surplus Springfield 03 and his younger brother purchased a 1917 Enfield. They both then walked home with their purchases and about a hundred rounds of 30.06 ammo shoved in their pockets. They then test fired the rifles in the shooting range they set up in the basement. Wasn't much of a range but more of a rest pointed at a stack of sandbags about 20 feet away. And except for scaring the crap out of everyone who happened to be sitting in the living room when a shot was fired nobody else had a problem with it. No police officers were called by neighbors and the round was much quieter than the fireworks neighborhood kids were known to set off outdoors. And finally when they walked through the downtown area with their rifles slung about once a month to spend the day shooting cans at the local "shooting gallery" people had set up on the edge of town nobody thought twice of it. Didn't even matter that my father would usually have his fathers 1911 on his hip in a WWII flap holster. If anyone in town did ever say anything as two boys walked past armed with military rifles, it would be to ask "You boys gonna go shoot some cans?" because it was obvious to most in town that it wasn't hunting season yet. I look at that old black and white photo of my father and my uncle walking down the sidewalk with rifles almost twice as tall as they are slung on their back and it saddens me to consider how much has been lost in a mere 50 years. |
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Quoted: Quoted: From what I understand my FL Concealed Weapons license will now allow me to carry concealed in Iowa. Iowa residents MUST have an Iowa permit to carry here. Out-of-state people can have any state permit they want. I temporarily relocated to IA for work. I have "lived" here for about 4 1/2 months and still have a NY CDL, voter registration, license plates, etc. Most states consider you a resident after 30 or 60 days. Am I an Iowa resident? NY resident? Refugee? Illegal alien? The safest option would be to leave my gun at home, but I would like to carry. Am I playing with fire after living in IA for so long? |
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if this is your state of residence, then get your permit here. if not, then don't worry about it...
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From what I understand my FL Concealed Weapons license will now allow me to carry concealed in Iowa. Iowa residents MUST have an Iowa permit to carry here. Out-of-state people can have any state permit they want. I temporarily relocated to IA for work. I have "lived" here for about 4 1/2 months and still have a NY CDL, voter registration, license plates, etc. Most states consider you a resident after 30 or 60 days. Am I an Iowa resident? NY resident? Refugee? Illegal alien? The safest option would be to leave my gun at home, but I would like to carry. Am I playing with fire after living in IA for so long? |
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Quoted: In Iowa, I believe it's required that you register your vehicles and get an IA DL after either 30 or 60 days, can't remember which. It is required in any state if you are becoming a resident. I am not; I was just here for work. Leaving sometime before the end of January, but I wondered if the amount of time I spent here would raise some eyebrows. |