![]() “What the governor was saying and what Col. ![]() Troopers will continue to approach individuals openly carrying loaded guns as they always have, with reasonable suspicion. Hutchinson also wrote that no open-carry citations, to his knowledge, have been issued by Arkansas state troopers.Īrkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler shown addressing the media in May of 2013.Īrkansas State Police spokesman Bill Sadler says nothing's changed since the memo was issued. It was incumbent on the executive branch, he wrote, to address the matter, given the state Supreme Court has not yet taken up a lower court open carry case. Such opinions from a state's attorney general carry weight with local prosecutors and police, but as the governor pointed out in his directive, Act 746 can be interpreted differently depending on jurisdictions. Two years later, a new attorney general, Leslie Rutledge, a Republican, issued her opinion stating that it is. The summer Act 746 took effect, then-Arkansas Attorney General Dustin McDaniel, a Democrat, issued an advisory opinion stating open carry is not permitted in Arkansas. Hutchinson's memo, first reported by the Arkansas Times, points out that the words “open carry" - a term adopted by gun-rights advocates -do not appear anywhere in Act 746. While that infers vehicular travel, "journey" is not clearly defined in the law. ![]() Carrying a loaded gun while “on a journey beyond the county in which the person lives” is also permitted. Finally, weapons may be carried while hunting or engaged in sport. Visible loaded weapons may also, of course, be carried at work when such employment is law enforcement, corrections and some security details. Members of a Jonesboro open carry walk in 2013 stop to listen to a speech.Īrkansas’s amended 2013 gun law states that visible loaded weapons can be carried without risking a misdemeanor offense by individuals on private property or businesses that permit it, but not certain public property.
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