I seem to recall there was a thread related to this a while back, but I've searched for it and can't find it, so if there was . . . apologies for the repeat question.
On the way back from Monday's match, one of my shooting buds was telling a story about a guy who was legally carrying concealed (in MA) but his jacket accidently opened to reveal the weapon to someone who then called the cops. As the story goes, he was apparently successfully prosecuted for violating his A-ALP permit because it's intended to cover only "concealed" and not open carry.
This sounded a bit like an urban myth, so I read (again) through the MGLs on issuance of permits, and the only thing I see is that Class B's are expressly forbidden to carry concealed - Class A's simply permit "carry," which I would interpret to mean open or concealed. So, I don't understand if the accidental exposure - or even wearing one openly on your hip - would be a violation of your CCW permit, per se.
That said, I recognize that there may be any number of laws that restrict so-called "brandishing" (a term that I couldn't find in searching the laws) and maybe that's what he was prosecuted under. If that's the case, then strictly speaking he didn't violate what the A-ALP permit permitted him to do, but rather ran afoul of something else. Or the whole thing could just be BS.
Anyone have any definitive information relative to this issue?
On the way back from Monday's match, one of my shooting buds was telling a story about a guy who was legally carrying concealed (in MA) but his jacket accidently opened to reveal the weapon to someone who then called the cops. As the story goes, he was apparently successfully prosecuted for violating his A-ALP permit because it's intended to cover only "concealed" and not open carry.
This sounded a bit like an urban myth, so I read (again) through the MGLs on issuance of permits, and the only thing I see is that Class B's are expressly forbidden to carry concealed - Class A's simply permit "carry," which I would interpret to mean open or concealed. So, I don't understand if the accidental exposure - or even wearing one openly on your hip - would be a violation of your CCW permit, per se.
That said, I recognize that there may be any number of laws that restrict so-called "brandishing" (a term that I couldn't find in searching the laws) and maybe that's what he was prosecuted under. If that's the case, then strictly speaking he didn't violate what the A-ALP permit permitted him to do, but rather ran afoul of something else. Or the whole thing could just be BS.
Anyone have any definitive information relative to this issue?