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It does seem to alarm the tourist population, though. Or maybe we Alaskans are just part of the local "color"? I've been carrying around my place the past week or so, instead of just having the hardware handy. I've been hit by a bear a couple of times and fear that when it runs out of dog food, it might start slaughtering the livestock. Of course, when I run to town, I don't always even notice that .44 hanging at my side because it becomes part of my wardrobe, kind of like a wallet in my back pocket.Alaska has had open carry forever. It's not at all uncommon to see a gun on the hip, and it's almost expected to see a gun in the truck window. We have a very high carry rate up here; think it was 80% in the city, 95% out of the city.
Our businesses, for the most part, don't lose customers because of it, people on the street don't freak out about it, and really other than folks being a shit ton more friendly, open carry hasn't caused any real problems.
Yeah, Himself wears a gun in a holster on the property from time to time, and scared a party from the local Lutheran Chuch that borders our land. They were on our land following the creek and thinking about a survey, and met up with him! No problem, though. We had a bear in the driveway last week (he thought it was maybe a pig at first!) and he killed a big dog coon with a shotgun on the back porch yesterday afternoon. It was eating cat food and had taken down most of our sweet corn. I hate wild animals...…………
Especially coyotes, which have killed 11 lambs this season so far. Himself is distraught. It would not be a joke to us to have to go without firearms, and I'm not even talking about criminal people.