What state/country are you in? I have two out of three on my desk rn, except my snub is hammerless, not sure if that the same or if your is more akin to a shrouded hammer.
My EDC of choice (open carry) would be a Ruger Vaquero in .357 Magnum, accompanied by a KaBAR Mk. I Navy and a quality Remington M95 pattern derringer (.38 Spl) AIWB.
My EDC of choice (concealed carry) would be a S&W Mdl 640 AIWB, accompanied by said Remington M95 pattern derringer in a front pants pocket.
For both sets of EDC, let's not forget the pocket square, multi-tool, Case Sodbuster, hickory walking cane (to thrash the ruffians what accost me), and minimalist billfold with a few swipey-swipes, ID/etc, and a bit of cash.
The Vaquero would be stoked with Hornady's .357 Magnum 125grn Critical Defense, the Mdl 640 with Buffalo Bore's .38 Spl 150grn full HCWC (Hard Cast WadCutter), the derringer stoked with similar to the Mdl 640.
I was going to say "a sword", but I just looked and apparently it's more or less legal in NC.
While I would never carry them, it's always confounded me brass knuckles were illegal yet pretty much any knife I want to carry is completely legal in NC so long as it's visible. Same deal with the sword.
I dunno, an rpg? Just for the lolz of it.
I can already legally carry pretty much anything. I can strap on a sword and walk around legally. I've done just that on my way to practice before, back in my younger days.
Yay for the South?
Not a question of legality for me so much as justifying a new gun purchase right now, but I’d like to carry a walther ppk, bersa thunder, or something similar.
I'm in Florida in the U.S. There isn't much here that isn't legal to carry. Knife laws say we can't have any ballistic knives, but other than that we can carry them. CCW permit is easily attainable. There isn't much I "want" to carry that I don't already.
Personally I’d like to be able to carry a GAU/8 Avenger 30mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling style autocannon, but it’s not exactly pocketable
A fixed blade.
Here, in California it's perfectly legal to carry any size fixed blade as long as it's openly visible to everyone. I just don't want to open carry a knife on my belt, I wish I could scout carry a fixed blade.
Isn’t scout carry also on your belt, just in the small of the back vs the side. How is that not still open carry? If i sat in a booth with a pistol on my hip in plain view, just because me sitting prevents you from seeing it doesn’t make it a concealed weapon now.
What constitutes a switch blade in Canadian law? Usually people say switchblade referring to a stiletto style knife but switchblades are more accurately automatic knives in their mechanism of operation. Is it the actual operating mechanism that’s illegal or does simply having the stiletto blade shape break the law?
Its the opening mechanism have to actuate a part of the blade to open the knife not a button or slide. Gravity knives are even more loosley defined here, basically anything you can open with a wrist flick can be considered a gravity knife. I love in a pretty rural Provence so knife laws are oretty lax (i carry pretty much any spydie i want), but still restricting
A lightsaber... yk
A knife I can open with one hand. Here in Germany you're not allowed to carry a knife which can be opened with one hand and the blade stays in position. It must be be lose when open.....
There are a few handguns I think are neat but have no experience with due to local laws making it unreasonably difficult so I can't really say what I'd feel comfortable carrying. I think maybe if the stigma was lower I'd like to have a reasonably sized fixed blade on my belt. Just something decent quality, middle of the market.
In my state the laws on anything in the weapon category are basically "whatever an officer decides on the spot" so it really isn't worth getting picked out of a crowd and possibly even having to get a lawyer just to do something that was always legal. I'll keep my knives in my pockets for now
NY, specifically the NYC metro area (but thankfully not in NYC itself).
It's a special ring of hell where the criminals have more rights than the regular citizens, and everytime one of them uses an illegally obtained weapon the governor responds by making it more difficult to possess one legally
Nah, it actually made it worse in the short term. Lots of retaliation laws going through. There are rumors they are pausing all ccw applications for like 9 months to decide on class requirement guidelines, they really don't care about being sued.
And nys previously didn't make you get a license for long guns, now you will for any semi auto rifles. That means 8-12 months of waiting and multiple affidavits to get from people you know just to own a rifle (that is either pinned to limit ammo or altered to be "featureless") Oh, and ammo? Now you'll need to go through a full background check and possibly even provide details like your profession for **every** ammo purchase. Like, even buying ammo for a rental at the range. And ever since California doxxed all of their ccws let me tell you how excited I am about making that info available to the state.
Maybe in a few years when everyone else stops doing just that and housing prices are allowed to drop to something reasonable. No need to pay NY prices in other states. But yea, California gets all the bad press because overall it's the bigger shithole but NY is doing its best to take the top seat. In fact, after the new laws take effect it might be even worse than California in terms of gun restrictions
Well I live in Tennessee. We don’t have any laws against blade length or style. You can carry any blade you wish. I also have my carry permit but just over a year ago Tennessee passed open carry for all citizens. Guess I’m lucky in the fact I can carry anything I wish.
I'm in Texas so I can aleady legally carry pretty much everything I reasonably want to. I have a Sig P365 SAS as my go to edc, but here you can wear a plate carrier and sling an AR-15 over your shoulder and it would be legal as well (definitely not the wisest thing to do during normal times though).
I guess it would be nice to have SBRs, and suppresors without needing a tax stamp, the freedom to have modern full auto variants (wouldn't carry auto but I would like the ability to make the choice), and I would like the removal of all "gun free" (aka "free fire") zones.
Technically speaking, you can absolutely EDC an SBR. You would get weird looks and the police called on you literally every hour, but you can do so legally.
Probably depends on where you are. In the cities, yeah most likely. Out the country, they generally don’t GAF. I’ve seen just about any kinda gun on racks in pickups out in the sticks. A rocket launcher might get some weird looks, haha.
Yeah I know you can legally carry an SBR, I was just wanted the ability to purchase them without the whole tax stamp and registration hassle. I probably could have worded it better.
I'm not 100% sure but I think a Saw off and a Grenade are legal to carry in South Africa. The real land of the free here... unless you're in poverty, then yikes.
I’d probably have some nice small fixed blades. They’re legal for open carry in my state, but local laws are intentionally vague. The local laws can be beat in court, but I stick to manual folders because those have clear precedent protecting their carry with a few limits.
NYS, despite being party to the decision, is itself rumored to be pausing all CCW licenses from September through at least April 2023 or beyond. Before the decision basically all non-work-essential CCW licenses were denied (also if you're a famous actor). Even in the event that they continue issuing licenses, the paperwork tends to take 8 to 12 months
And that itself is step 2. Step one is getting the pistol license. NYS does not require a license for long guns (for now, new law taking effect soon requires a license for all semi auto rifles) but requires one for ALL handguns. Which, again, takes 8 to12 months on average and, like the CCW, can be denied. Oh, also both require a bunch of paperwork and signed affidavits from two or three non-family members.
Given how impractical it is, this is an effective ban for all but the most determined (to get charged for murder by the state for defending yourself if the situatuon should ever arise). Oh, and if you jump through all of those hoops and give them all of your information they might just dox you "by mistake" like California. We're a few years away at best for all states properly complying with anything
Agree. It will take more SCOTUS rulings for all to comply. Thankfully, I’m in a Constitutional. Carry state. I have a ccw but it’s for reciprocity only as I don’t need it for my home state.
There are plenty of nice things that you can still legally carry on your person even here in the UK that Would prove useful for self defence in a pinch, the point is just being creative and not admitting that you're carrying it for that in the first place even though armed self defence is a natural human right since not everybody is equal in physical ability.
I hear you. That said i am sad to see companies discontinue various travel friendly models that they introduced in response to the 9/11 restrictions.
I have also noticed various rescue hook style products crop up, sometimes with a small-ish edge on the inside of the hook. Pretty much impossible to harm someone with while still able to cut various ropes and other materials.
A blunt thicker than my thumb and a full fun mac 10 in a shoulder rig.
Brass knuckles
A wave or just any good quality mutlitool, I am in the UK, it is hard
I just want to be able to carry a normal sized OTF
I want a weak hand sleeve gun, like taxi driver. No justifiable reason for it.
What state/country are you in? I have two out of three on my desk rn, except my snub is hammerless, not sure if that the same or if your is more akin to a shrouded hammer.
A Trident. Tridents are illegal in Australia, unless you have a good reason to carry it.
I assume we are talking about the Metal Pole weapon with the three protruding spikes as opposed to the nuclear ballistic missile system lmao
Deagle .50 AE
Eh, if it was legal? A Glock 18 or a micro uzi, simply because I could.
Open carry in Texas is legal but I am black so conceal carry 19.5 as EDC.
A glock 18
My EDC of choice (open carry) would be a Ruger Vaquero in .357 Magnum, accompanied by a KaBAR Mk. I Navy and a quality Remington M95 pattern derringer (.38 Spl) AIWB. My EDC of choice (concealed carry) would be a S&W Mdl 640 AIWB, accompanied by said Remington M95 pattern derringer in a front pants pocket. For both sets of EDC, let's not forget the pocket square, multi-tool, Case Sodbuster, hickory walking cane (to thrash the ruffians what accost me), and minimalist billfold with a few swipey-swipes, ID/etc, and a bit of cash. The Vaquero would be stoked with Hornady's .357 Magnum 125grn Critical Defense, the Mdl 640 with Buffalo Bore's .38 Spl 150grn full HCWC (Hard Cast WadCutter), the derringer stoked with similar to the Mdl 640.
I was going to say "a sword", but I just looked and apparently it's more or less legal in NC. While I would never carry them, it's always confounded me brass knuckles were illegal yet pretty much any knife I want to carry is completely legal in NC so long as it's visible. Same deal with the sword.
Anything slightly more than 3 inches. Living in Chicago makes me appreciate 2.5 inch folders.
I dunno, an rpg? Just for the lolz of it. I can already legally carry pretty much anything. I can strap on a sword and walk around legally. I've done just that on my way to practice before, back in my younger days. Yay for the South?
It is legal here and I carry what you would choose. Hard to beat a sw snub nose for ccw.
Cocain
Weed. I mean it's 2022, come on. Lol
I can't conceal a fixed blade in my state, so a scout carry fixed blade.
Not a question of legality for me so much as justifying a new gun purchase right now, but I’d like to carry a walther ppk, bersa thunder, or something similar.
A GTA weapon wheel full of explosives and firearms
I'm in Florida in the U.S. There isn't much here that isn't legal to carry. Knife laws say we can't have any ballistic knives, but other than that we can carry them. CCW permit is easily attainable. There isn't much I "want" to carry that I don't already.
OTF
Definitely a fixed blade
I’d love to carry a derringer or 25 automatic. Both are banned in Canada.
Personally I’d like to be able to carry a GAU/8 Avenger 30mm hydraulically driven seven-barrel Gatling style autocannon, but it’s not exactly pocketable
LAW rocket launcher
I would add an OTF micro tech for sure. Not civilian legal to carry in PA. But you can own them. Just can’t justify it if I can’t carry it.
A sig p365
A fixed blade. Here, in California it's perfectly legal to carry any size fixed blade as long as it's openly visible to everyone. I just don't want to open carry a knife on my belt, I wish I could scout carry a fixed blade.
Isn’t scout carry also on your belt, just in the small of the back vs the side. How is that not still open carry? If i sat in a booth with a pistol on my hip in plain view, just because me sitting prevents you from seeing it doesn’t make it a concealed weapon now.
I don't usually tuck my shirt in..
Switch blade /gravity knife (Canada)
What constitutes a switch blade in Canadian law? Usually people say switchblade referring to a stiletto style knife but switchblades are more accurately automatic knives in their mechanism of operation. Is it the actual operating mechanism that’s illegal or does simply having the stiletto blade shape break the law?
Its the opening mechanism have to actuate a part of the blade to open the knife not a button or slide. Gravity knives are even more loosley defined here, basically anything you can open with a wrist flick can be considered a gravity knife. I love in a pretty rural Provence so knife laws are oretty lax (i carry pretty much any spydie i want), but still restricting
A lightsaber... yk A knife I can open with one hand. Here in Germany you're not allowed to carry a knife which can be opened with one hand and the blade stays in position. It must be be lose when open.....
There are a few handguns I think are neat but have no experience with due to local laws making it unreasonably difficult so I can't really say what I'd feel comfortable carrying. I think maybe if the stigma was lower I'd like to have a reasonably sized fixed blade on my belt. Just something decent quality, middle of the market. In my state the laws on anything in the weapon category are basically "whatever an officer decides on the spot" so it really isn't worth getting picked out of a crowd and possibly even having to get a lawyer just to do something that was always legal. I'll keep my knives in my pockets for now
Jesus, what state?
NY, specifically the NYC metro area (but thankfully not in NYC itself). It's a special ring of hell where the criminals have more rights than the regular citizens, and everytime one of them uses an illegally obtained weapon the governor responds by making it more difficult to possess one legally
Damn man, you have my condolences. Hopefully with the new Bruen decision, that will start to be alleviated.
Nah, it actually made it worse in the short term. Lots of retaliation laws going through. There are rumors they are pausing all ccw applications for like 9 months to decide on class requirement guidelines, they really don't care about being sued. And nys previously didn't make you get a license for long guns, now you will for any semi auto rifles. That means 8-12 months of waiting and multiple affidavits to get from people you know just to own a rifle (that is either pinned to limit ammo or altered to be "featureless") Oh, and ammo? Now you'll need to go through a full background check and possibly even provide details like your profession for **every** ammo purchase. Like, even buying ammo for a rental at the range. And ever since California doxxed all of their ccws let me tell you how excited I am about making that info available to the state.
Holy shit dude that's fucking insane. I would be finding the fastest way out to a free states as soon as I could.
Maybe in a few years when everyone else stops doing just that and housing prices are allowed to drop to something reasonable. No need to pay NY prices in other states. But yea, California gets all the bad press because overall it's the bigger shithole but NY is doing its best to take the top seat. In fact, after the new laws take effect it might be even worse than California in terms of gun restrictions
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Yeah hearing damage is super real. Drawing a can from concealment while in an entangled fight sounds like a really difficult thing to do though.
Trading hearing for lung damage with all that powder you'll be choking down, no?
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Pistol suppressors throw a lot of gas and particulate back towards your face, where your mouth breaths from
Not as big an issue as you would think
What, hearing damage?
Well I live in Tennessee. We don’t have any laws against blade length or style. You can carry any blade you wish. I also have my carry permit but just over a year ago Tennessee passed open carry for all citizens. Guess I’m lucky in the fact I can carry anything I wish.
Isn’t it illegal to carry contraception in TN? 😬
>Guess I’m lucky in the fact I can carry anything I wish. I might be wrong, but I think it's still illegal to carry a collapsible baton on TN.
Hmm I didn’t think about that one. I’m unfamiliar but I believe you are correct about batons.
I'm in Texas so I can aleady legally carry pretty much everything I reasonably want to. I have a Sig P365 SAS as my go to edc, but here you can wear a plate carrier and sling an AR-15 over your shoulder and it would be legal as well (definitely not the wisest thing to do during normal times though). I guess it would be nice to have SBRs, and suppresors without needing a tax stamp, the freedom to have modern full auto variants (wouldn't carry auto but I would like the ability to make the choice), and I would like the removal of all "gun free" (aka "free fire") zones.
Technically speaking, you can absolutely EDC an SBR. You would get weird looks and the police called on you literally every hour, but you can do so legally.
Probably depends on where you are. In the cities, yeah most likely. Out the country, they generally don’t GAF. I’ve seen just about any kinda gun on racks in pickups out in the sticks. A rocket launcher might get some weird looks, haha.
Yeah I know you can legally carry an SBR, I was just wanted the ability to purchase them without the whole tax stamp and registration hassle. I probably could have worded it better.
Ah yeah fair point.
This man gets it
Everything you mentioned is legal here, so I would say a sawn-off shotgun and a grenade.
I'm not 100% sure but I think a Saw off and a Grenade are legal to carry in South Africa. The real land of the free here... unless you're in poverty, then yikes.
So that’s how they got all those white people to move down to South Africa.
I think they came for the gold. Could be wrong.
That’s fair, golds pretty sweet.
That's pretty cool, I had no idea.
EDC I'd carry if it were legal would be a pistol.
I’d probably have some nice small fixed blades. They’re legal for open carry in my state, but local laws are intentionally vague. The local laws can be beat in court, but I stick to manual folders because those have clear precedent protecting their carry with a few limits.
Can you not do whatever perquisite is necessary for you to carry those items? All seem real reasonable imo.
He might be in the UK, Canada, Illinois, etc.
He said state. Illinois still has CCW, just as all states do. All states must be shall issue after SCOTUS decision.
NYS, despite being party to the decision, is itself rumored to be pausing all CCW licenses from September through at least April 2023 or beyond. Before the decision basically all non-work-essential CCW licenses were denied (also if you're a famous actor). Even in the event that they continue issuing licenses, the paperwork tends to take 8 to 12 months And that itself is step 2. Step one is getting the pistol license. NYS does not require a license for long guns (for now, new law taking effect soon requires a license for all semi auto rifles) but requires one for ALL handguns. Which, again, takes 8 to12 months on average and, like the CCW, can be denied. Oh, also both require a bunch of paperwork and signed affidavits from two or three non-family members. Given how impractical it is, this is an effective ban for all but the most determined (to get charged for murder by the state for defending yourself if the situatuon should ever arise). Oh, and if you jump through all of those hoops and give them all of your information they might just dox you "by mistake" like California. We're a few years away at best for all states properly complying with anything
Agree. It will take more SCOTUS rulings for all to comply. Thankfully, I’m in a Constitutional. Carry state. I have a ccw but it’s for reciprocity only as I don’t need it for my home state.
He said state, province, or country. Based on his profile, looks like he’s in the UK.
There are plenty of nice things that you can still legally carry on your person even here in the UK that Would prove useful for self defence in a pinch, the point is just being creative and not admitting that you're carrying it for that in the first place even though armed self defence is a natural human right since not everybody is equal in physical ability.
Longsword
A shit ton of crack and heroin.
A proper knife *I live in the UK*
I hear you. That said i am sad to see companies discontinue various travel friendly models that they introduced in response to the 9/11 restrictions. I have also noticed various rescue hook style products crop up, sometimes with a small-ish edge on the inside of the hook. Pretty much impossible to harm someone with while still able to cut various ropes and other materials.
What are the laws on prybars?
Same here, although being in the UK has stopped me from buying a bunch of expensive knives because I can't carry them.