My State
Not perfect, of course, but it’s nice to see that a guy with a loaded AR-15 can show up at a protest and the cops don’t much care.
“Because I can do it,” he said when asked why he was armed. “In Arizona, I still have some freedoms.”
Two police officers were staying very close to the man.
“What he is doing is perfectly legal,” Det. J. Oliver, of the Phoenix Police Department said. “We are here to keep the peace. If we need to intervene, we will intervene at that time.”
I’ve interacted with police officers a few times while open carrying, and I’ve never had a problem.