Open Carry laws are the rage in many states.  I read this story this morning about a guy in Gresham, Oregon, who lost his gun.  Didn't seem to do him much good.  I just had to laugh.

GRESHAM, Ore. (KOIN 6) — A man practicing his open carry right was robbed of the gun he was openly carrying.

William Coleman III was robbed of his Walter- brand P22 just after 2:00 a.m. October 4 in Gresham by a young man who asked him for it — and flashed his own weapon as persuasion.

Coleman, 21, was talking to his cousin in the 17200 block of NE Glisan St., after purchasing the handgun earlier that day, when a young man asked him for a cigarette, police said.

The man then asked about the gun, pulled a gun from his own waistband and said “”I like your gun. Give it to me.”

Coleman handed over the gun and the man fled on foot. http://koin.com/2014/10/07/man-practicing-open-carry-law-robbed-of-gun/

I was in a Chipotle restaurant in Phoenix last March when a guy walked in with a semi-automatic in a holster on his hip.  It was quite disconcerting to say the least.