A favorable court decision from Ohio, concerning open carry…
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:
So some douche drops a dime on a guy for walking-while-armed: In my youth in the Texas panhandle, an otherwise very gun-friendly place, this would have gotten the carrier busted for Disturbing the Peace and the charge would have stuck. In this case the cops tried an Ohio equivalent called Causing Panic, which did not stick – apparently because under the statute that’s something specific that was not happening here. “Disturbing the peace,” back in the day, was whatever the sheriff said it was. If you bothered somebody enough for them to bother the cops about you, you were disturbing the peace.
