{"id":17240,"date":"2015-05-13T15:07:20","date_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:07:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17240"},"modified":"2015-05-13T15:07:20","modified_gmt":"2015-05-13T20:07:20","slug":"wapo-the-fourth-amendment-and-open-carry-of-guns-where-such-open-carry-is-legal","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17240","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: The Fourth Amendment and open carry of guns (where such open carry is legal)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/news\/volokh-conspiracy\/wp\/2015\/05\/13\/the-fourth-amendment-and-open-carry-of-guns-where-such-open-carry-is-legal\/\">The Fourth Amendment and open carry of guns (where such open carry is legal)<\/a> by Eugene Volokh:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>From the Sixth Circuit federal court of appeals decision today in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ca6.uscourts.gov\/opinions.pdf\/15a0092p-06.pdf\">Northrup v. Toledo Police Dept.<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>On a midsummer evening, Shawn and Denise Northrup went for a neighborhood walk with their daughter, grandson, and dog. Apparently in a happy-go-lucky mood, Shawn wore a t-shirt reading, \u201cThis Is The Shirt I Wear When I Don\u2019t Care.\u201d Shawn carried a cell phone, which he holstered on his hip \u2014 next to a black semiautomatic handgun.<\/p>\n<p>A passing motorcyclist stopped to complain about Shawn\u2019s visible firearm. The stranger, Alan Rose, yelled, \u201c[Y]ou can\u2019t walk around with a gun like that!\u201d But \u201c[O]pen carry is legal in Ohio!\u201d Denise responded. As the Northrups walked away, Denise and Rose exchanged increasingly unprintable words until he was out of view (and earshot).<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>. . .<\/p>\n<p>The police eventually arrived, ordered Northrup to stop, demanded that he turn over the gun, handcuffed him, and kept him handcuffed in a police car for 30 minutes. Eventually, they let him go, and all charges were dropped. Northrup sued, and the Sixth Circuit allowed the case to go forward:<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: The Fourth Amendment and open carry of guns (where such open carry is legal) by Eugene Volokh: From the Sixth Circuit federal court of appeals decision today in Northrup v. Toledo Police Dept.: On a midsummer evening, Shawn and &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=17240\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17240","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-reasonable-suspicion"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17240"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17241,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17240\/revisions\/17241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17240"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17240"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17240"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}