Progressive Politics

Fuck, I was gonna make this comment.

So yeah, this is a pistol, it has a shoulder brace, not a proper buttstock, its basically a very thin piece of plastic that is intentionally designed to be uncomfortable to use as an actual buttstock.

If this person wanted to put a real buttstock on it, well, they'd have to apply to register the weapon as a short barreled rifle, which costs money and takes time, and gets you on a registry.

Now, you say that to carry this weapon, a pistol, you need a concealed carry permit.

... Things get really complicated here depending on your exact location in the US, but uh... what this guy is doing is called open carry.

As in, it isn't concealed. It is plainly visible, open for all to see.

Broadly speaking... as long as you are not brandishing the weapon, threatening others with it, committing crimes while open carrying, not in like a school zone or something... in many parts of the country, this is legal, and you don't need a CC permit for it.

I don't know exactly how it works in Minneapolis though, and the technicalities of this get astonishingly complex very fast.

But yeah the original idea of a Concealed Carry permit... is that it is for weapons that are not plainly visible, not on an externally visible holster, but are instead in some kind of holster inside your vest, under your shirt, deep in a pocket, etc.

Also also, for any confused 'leftists':

Marx & Engels:

The whole proletariat must be armed at once with muskets, rifles, cannon and ammunition, and the revival of the old-style citizens’ militia, directed against the workers, must be opposed.

Where the formation of this militia cannot be prevented, the workers must try to organize themselves independently as a proletarian guard, with elected leaders and with their own elected general staff; they must try to place themselves not under the orders of the state authority but of the revolutionary local councils set up by the workers.

Where the workers are employed by the state, they must arm and organize themselves into special corps with elected leaders, or as a part of the proletarian guard.

Under no pretext should arms and ammunition be surrendered; any attempt to disarm the workers must be frustrated, by force if necessary.