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AZ: Armed Biker Displays Gun to Open Carrier in Yuma
I stopped to fuel up at a local gas station. The price was $1.93 a gallon. I was open carrying my old Glock 17. As I came out the door, the biker was standing beside this beautiful Indian motorcycle. I said “Nice bike”, and he replied, “What are you carrying?”
Glock 17, I said, and he pulled open his vest to show me his S&W M&P. His vest proudly proclaimed that he was a Vietnam Vet. I said that while I had been in service during Vietnam, my tour was in California, at Hunter-Liggett Military Reservation (now Ft. Hunter Liggett), mostly shut down in one of the several rounds of base closures in the 90's . But, hey, somebody has to be a REMF (Rear Echelon type). He said he didn't meet many Army Vets in Yuma, they were nearly all Marines… and he was right.
Then he offered me a Bible, as he was handing them out at the gas station. So we had quite a few things in common: Armed, veteran, Christian, motorcycle riders. We hit it off.
Jimmy hands out bibles quite regularly. He had been wanting to carry for quite a while, but had been putting off getting a permit. It just stuck in his craw a to ask the government for permission. Then Arizona passed Constitutional, or “permitless” carry, and he started carrying regularly. He says it is a major reason why he loves Arizona.
He was half-way apologetic about not carrying openly. It's just, well, on a motorcycle… he said, and I understood. Your options on a bike are more limited. The shoulder holstered S&W worked for him. He said that when the gun shop owner saw that he was a Vietnam Vet, he immediately dropped $100 off the price. Jimmy said “Sold”, and walked out the door a happy biker.
This S&W M&P is the Shield with the 8 round magazine. It disappeared under the vest, and the vest absolutely fits with Jimmy's overall style. I did not detect an iota of a print.
In the common vernacular, Jimmy is a “Bitter Clinger”. I will take Jimmy at my back any fair, or foul, day of the week.
Maybe the whole “State loyalty” thing, that took such a hit back in 1865, is starting to make a comeback… I feel positively proud of Arizona.
©2015 by Dean Weingarten: Permission to share is granted when this notice is included. Link to Gun Watch
Source: http://gunwatch.blogspot.com/2015/11/az-armed-biker-displays-gun-to-open.html
