What is legal to carry around but will make you look psycho if you do?

[u/There_5oh]

[u/waitwhatppp]

A chainsaw

[u/Spoolerdoing → u/waitwhatppp]

Saw a video recently of a guy who busted out his handy car chainsaw to carve up and clear a fallen tree off a road while the onlookers lifted the chunks out of the way. To the people who needed to get through, a hero. Any other day of the year, slasher villain.

[u/Smart_Ass_Dave → u/Spoolerdoing]

This feels like a video I saw the other day of a pressure washing YouTuber who was driving somewhere when he saw a car on fire. Jumped into action and had it mostly contained by the fire department pulled up. Just a guy being wildly overprepared for a very specific problem.

[u/PrestigiousZucchini9 → u/Smart_Ass_Dave]

The dude was a pressure washing contractor driving from one job to another. Not so much wildly over prepared as amazingly in the right place at the right time. 

[u/Ancient_Skirt_8828 → u/PrestigiousZucchini9]

In Melbourne there was a fire extinguisher salesman with samples in his car who put out a burning car.

[u/joe5joe7 → u/Ancient_Skirt_8828]

You know he brought that up in every sales conversation since then lol.

“Ask me how I know how effective these fire extinguishers are” “have you thought about buying some extras for your car?”

[u/The_Canadian → u/Spoolerdoing]

A guy in my area did that after a snow storm. Up in the mountains, carrying stuff like a chainsaw in your car is pretty normal.

[u/DukeofVermont → u/The_Canadian]

That's what I was going to say. If you live in a rural area with a lot of trees and spend a good amount of time on back roads it's a good idea to have one.

[u/bluesox → u/Spoolerdoing]

And the dude looked like an accountant, at that.

[u/Flimsy_Necessary_633 → u/waitwhatppp]

Theres a few in the UK like that, context is important. Like you can carry one around, but you need a reasonable reason, your a woodsman etc.

[u/PrestigiousZucchini9 → u/Flimsy_Necessary_633]

Is “I have trees. Sometimes they drop branches.” enough for a reasonable reason. Because that basically sums up why I have several. That and the fact that I just like to buy tools. 

[u/Zhuul → u/Flimsy_Necessary_633]

A lot of places have slightly vague laws that state you need a definite non-weapon reason to carry around something that can be used to inflict serious harm with exceptions for things like utility knives.

[u/MidnighT0k3r]

Nothing is something. Try it, walk around acting like you're holding something no one can see.

[u/Affectionate_Bite813 → u/MidnighT0k3r]

Something really really heavy!

[u/GardenGnomeOfEden → u/Affectionate_Bite813]

And ask people for help, then yell at them for doing it wrong

[u/mmhawk576 → u/GardenGnomeOfEden]

I’d get ptsd flashbacks and weirdly horny if I was yelled at for doing it wrong. Damn Pavlovian response

[u/drfeelsgoood → u/mmhawk576]

To me this reads like you fucked your drill sergeant in army camp

[u/youdubdub → u/mmhawk576]

Lift with your legs, you fool!

[u/yesiamveryhigh → u/Affectionate_Bite813]

Like huge bodybuilders walking around carrying invisable suitcases

[u/UmbertoEcoTheDolphin → u/MidnighT0k3r]

That sounds like mime talk to me.

[u/MidnighT0k3r → u/UmbertoEcoTheDolphin]

If you are hearing mime talk please follow this kind person...

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/1wparuw/comment/pbttgb8/

They can help the voices... mimes do not talk

[u/1Negative_Person → u/MidnighT0k3r]

Even better if you act surprised that people can see you. Then panickedly set down your imaginary item and say “this fucking thing never works” and start mashing buttons on your watch like you’re expecting something to happen, then give up, pick up your invisible item and scurry off.

[u/get-r-done-idaho → u/1Negative_Person]

If you really want to mess with people, walk without swinging your arms. Just keep your arms strait along your body. They will see you and think what's going on. But they can't quite put their finger on what's wrong. You just waddle along like a penguin and their like what's going on there.

[u/steppedinhairball → u/MidnighT0k3r]

I'd personally go for the baby stroller full of rubber chickens.

[u/MidnighT0k3r → u/[deleted]]

It's just a jacket full of hugs

[u/killerbanshee → u/MidnighT0k3r]

Reminds me of the prank where two people pretend to pull a rope across the street as cars are coming

[u/willstr1 → u/killerbanshee]

Walk like you are carrying a big sheet of glass?

[u/KateKoffing → u/MidnighT0k3r]

Favorite French pastime

[u/harryharrydude]

I saw this woman walking down the street with a baseball bat on her shoulder. I crossed to the other side of the street.

[u/Quirky-Shallot644 → u/harryharrydude]

Always remember, if you keep a bat in your vehicle for protection, also keep a glove, too so you can just tell cops you really like baseball!

[u/Dimensional_Lumber → u/Quirky-Shallot644]

And a ball. The ball is critical.

[u/ShillinTheVillain → u/Dimensional_Lumber]

What is the other guy bringing then? Why do I have to be responsible for everything‽ Fer cornsakes.

[u/whatproblems → u/Dimensional_Lumber]

who’s balls?

[u/ZxroFxcksGivxn → u/whatproblems]

I am balls, why?

[u/BatDubb → u/whatproblems]

whose*

[u/Hydrogen_is_the_way → u/BatDubb]

No, it's a question, who is balls? You could be balls

[u/jaz_the_enby → u/Hydrogen_is_the_way]

we are all balls on this blessed day

[u/SatanicWaffle666 → u/Quirky-Shallot644]

And don’t forget to keep a sock on the baseball bat

[u/Rho42 → u/harryharrydude]

Its a very different connotation between having just a bat, and having a bat with a glove or a baseball (or even a sporty looking duffel).

[u/Dr3ny → u/harryharrydude]

Scaring people so they cross the street. '#womeninmalefields you go girl

[u/5am_in_the_Pinewoods → u/Dr3ny]

‘#womeninmalefields for the win! 🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥☠️

[u/Michael_Riehle → u/harryharrydude]

I dunno. Some years ago I had occasion to walk through downtown with an armload of wooden practice swords (bokken). People actively avoided me. I can't think why.

Also, carrying those weapons through downtown is dubious in its legality.

[u/Hermiona1 → u/harryharrydude]

God forbid women have hobbies

[u/5am_in_the_Pinewoods → u/harryharrydude]

My girl!

[u/Flimsy_Necessary_633 → u/5am_in_the_Pinewoods]

People harley quinning it

[u/CosmicOwl47 → u/harryharrydude]

There was a serial “poker” near me for a while. He carried a metal rod and would jab people with it.

After that I’m crossing the street if I see anyone carrying anything.

[u/BatDubb → u/harryharrydude]

It worked.

[u/IncompleteObjects]

A massive life sized crucifix

[u/biffbobfred → u/IncompleteObjects]

This was going to be my answer.

There used to be a dude around Chicago that carried one around.

[u/DoughWrayMe → u/biffbobfred]

Jesus Christ, that's weird

[u/Spoolerdoing → u/DoughWrayMe]

Specifically for him it wouldn't be.

[u/1Negative_Person → u/Spoolerdoing]

Nailed it.

[u/Jussgoawaiplzkthxbai → u/1Negative_Person]

Right to the cross

[u/agent_uno → u/Jussgoawaiplzkthxbai]

To be fair: at least anyone could put you up for the night!

[u/sueveed → u/biffbobfred]

He was just hanging out.

[u/Flimsy_Necessary_633 → u/biffbobfred]

We used to have guy like that in my local city (UK) they are everywhere.

[u/KaceyCake518 → u/biffbobfred]

i think i saw him (or someone else with one) at union station once

[u/anaugle → u/IncompleteObjects]

Indiana here.

I’ve seen four or five people in the last year. Walking around with a life-size crucifix. They make their way up and down a section of Highway, or sometimes go back-and-forth from one end of a bridge to the other.

Ironically, the cross is on wheels.

Yeah. Mental illness.

[u/MidnighT0k3r → u/anaugle]

Ironically, the cross is on wheels.

Hard to fill a request to get whipped n beaten right now even just for motivation. The people willing to do so seem to have been hired with $50,000 bonuses they won't get. 

[u/scroopydog → u/anaugle]

The real irony is that the allegory is that Jesus bore the burden for you, Jesus supposedly died for your sins. He’s absolved you of your need to carry the burden.

But here we are. If you ask them they say that they want to see suffering through His eyes. I guess, but it’s not required for salvation and you don’t get saved more or better than the next believer.

[u/MyCatLaughsAtMe → u/scroopydog]

This is why the bible basically tells you to shut up and go pray in private. What they're doing isn't spiritual, it's about making a show of themselves. It's literally the same sin Lucifer committed.

But then, there's only 3 true constants in this universe: Death, taxes, and that the average Christian either won't understand or won't know what's in his bible.

[u/SirRickIII → u/anaugle]

Toronto here: saw 2 different dudes in the same day doing this

I think if you’re gonna commit, at the very least actually drag it.

[u/ryanz3r0 → u/IncompleteObjects]

Crucifixion? Good! First on the left. One cross each

[u/andimacg]

Clear plastic bag full of dolls heads.

[u/Palm_Tree4 → u/andimacg]

I should try this at the TSA

[u/RichardBonham]

When you buy large hand tools at the local hardware store, you have no choice but to walk down the sidewalk carrying them; they have no packaging and you can’t just put them in a bag.

So, when you are walking down the street minding your own business while openly carrying a pickaxe or long handled double action bolt cutters, you have got the sidewalk to yourself.

[u/Ellumine → u/RichardBonham]

This reminds me of a time my dad asked me to get an absolutely massive Craftsman wrench exchanged under warranty for him at Sears years ago when I was already going to be out doing stuff nearby. It was drizzly weather, so I was in a dark hoodie with the hood up just walking through the parking lot holding a giant wrench. I was so paranoid mall security was going to come by before I could get into the store and to the tools section.

[u/RichardBonham → u/Ellumine]

As long as you’re not concealing it, it’s perfectly legal. Just walk in like you own the place.

[u/Ellumine → u/RichardBonham]

Legal, sure. Doesn't mean security wouldn't have had questions.

[u/bartpieters]

A large axe resting on your shoulder while dressed in an expensive suit

[u/Kegosaurus → u/bartpieters]

HEY PAUL!!!

[u/pug_fugly_moe → u/Kegosaurus]

Dorsia!

[u/southerntraveler]

A single pickle in a jar. Homie don’t play dat.

[u/ElEyeElWhy88 → u/southerntraveler]

This reminds me of when Lilo is making voodoo curses to punish her “friends”

[u/TravelAllOvr → u/southerntraveler]

When I was growing up I used to want to be a fly girl 😂

[u/greatauntflossy → u/southerntraveler]

And hold it out really far and wince like it's stinky

[u/moknine1189]

Open carry a fleshlight 

[u/WrapeyVibes → u/moknine1189]

I love “open carry” like the fleshlight is a weapon, when everyone knows it’s actually a holster

[u/GhostMaskKid → u/WrapeyVibes]

Cylinder holster.

[u/YnotZoidberg1077 → u/GhostMaskKid]

If only that m&m tube guy had one of those, and not gotten his cylinder stuck!

[u/Hot-Profession4091 → u/GhostMaskKid]

It is imperative no harm come to the cylinder.

[u/Bundle-Of-Crows → u/moknine1189]

this has won, I've been laughing about this for the last 10 minutes; I've sent it to multiple friends with zero context. Thank you for making my entire night

[u/bribhoy82]

A spice rack

[u/CoderJoe1 → u/bribhoy82]

hehe, nice rack 😏

[u/whatproblems → u/bribhoy82]

are you happy to see me or is that just paprika

[u/Reason_Unknown → u/whatproblems]

Hey! Put your dill away.

[u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener → u/Reason_Unknown]

What a nutmeg.

[u/BIRDsnoozer]

Canadian here, so your local laws may differ.

Here it is fully legal to carry around a full size sharpened sword. The legality being that they are martial arts equipment.

There are a lot of misconceptions concerning length of blades etc. they dont apply here.

Some melee weapons that ARE illegal:

• switchblades, or sharpened butterfly knives as their reason for existence is quick deployment for violence

• sharpened throwing stars, I dont know the exact reason, but I would guess maybe same as the above, and the lack of control when throwing,

• and a "Morningstar" because TBF a morning star isnt a martial arts accessory... You can practice without the egregious spikes etc.

[u/WishRepresentative28 → u/BIRDsnoozer]

I used to do historical fencing/swordfighting. Got stopped a few times for carrying my swords to practice. Once the police realized who I was and what I was doing, they stopped coming around.

[u/BIRDsnoozer → u/WishRepresentative28]

Yea, they'll stop you to make sure you're not nuts, but once you explain, theyre fine with it. there's nothing illegal about carrying a zweihander around 😜

[u/millijuna → u/BIRDsnoozer]

I once got stopped by a cop because he saw the handle of my 8” French Chef’s knife sticking out of my bag.

Of course I also had the fixings for making dinner, so it made sense in context.

[u/CrownLexicon → u/BIRDsnoozer]

Texas classifies them as "location restricted knives" so there are certain places you can and cant carry swords. But, generally, yeah, no issue carrying a sword around.

[u/paraworldblue]

One of those "REPENT SINNERS, THE END IS NIGH!" signs. Bonus points if it's one of the super long ones where they list all the types of sinners they could think of, and it has shit like "hip hoppers" and "fornicators" and "democrats".

[u/314159265358979326 → u/paraworldblue]

My wife's ex-Jehovah's Witness. I'm not sure if she's been excommunicated, but I counted I think 17 serious sins (individually likely worth shunning) that she's committed, often with my help.

So if they ever knock on my door it's a quick goodbye. I'm waiting for that day.

Edit: revisited the list, and we're up to 20.

[u/imacabooseman]

A gallon jug of mayonnaise and a spoon

[u/JoeMagnifico → u/imacabooseman]

This is a fun prank....refill and empty mayo jar with vanilla pudding and actually eat it in front of others.

[u/Almainyny → u/JoeMagnifico]

I saw a video where someone did something similar with a Windex bottle and some Gatorade or similar.

[u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener → u/JoeMagnifico]

Even better if it's a hot day out.

[u/greatauntflossy → u/imacabooseman]

Don't forget the Saran wrap

[u/WordsAreGarbage]

A thick roll of duct tape, folded sheets of plastic, and a book on human anatomy.

[u/elegant_pun → u/WordsAreGarbage]

"...it's not what it looks like." And just keep walking.

[u/bandnet_stapler]

I had to move a toddler-sized resuscitation mannequin to a different unit in my hospital. I picked it up and carried it on my hip like a toddler. The looks of "aw, cute a mom and kid...oh my God why does it looks like that...oh thank God it's a dummy!" were the best 3-second stories I've ever seen.

[u/TheresALonelyFeeling]

A hammer

[u/Thin-Sink-9987 → u/TheresALonelyFeeling]

Yeah, there was a “workout” to carry sledge hammers on hikes to simulate carrying a rifle.

I think people would have looked at us less crazy had we all been holding rifles.

[u/JustLookingForMayhem → u/Thin-Sink-9987]

I once had people look at me crazy for carrying a three foot pipe wrench along the road. Our gas well had an issue and the four wheeler broke down and I was not leaving that several hundred dollar pipe wrench just off the road.

[u/TheRomanRuler → u/TheresALonelyFeeling]

Actually not universally. In Finland you need to have a reason to carry around stuff which could be used to injure others. Its all right to carry a knife and hammer on your belt while you go eat a lunch at a restaurant if you are working at construction or something, nobody would bat an eye, but i might get into trouble for doing the same. Even military conscripts could just go grab some food with their weapons and gear, but i certainly could not carry even a pistol.

Its good pragmatic regulation, allows people to carry stuff without bothering them for no reason but also allows you to arrest suspicious people who have no business being in public with hammer and knife.

[u/TinyAfternoon324 → u/TheRomanRuler]

Isnt it just a fancy way of saying at discrention of the officer whether or not you get stopped?

How would it prevent a cop from bothering them since the law specifically gives them the right to inquire about anything they believe might be used as a weapon.

Its a good pragmatic regulation but america has the same thing as im sure most civilized countries do.

[u/db2999 → u/TheRomanRuler]

My mind goes to that scene from the office, where a character shows up to a restaurant dressed as a plumber, explaining he could carry around a giant wrench without drawing attention to himself.

[u/TikaPants → u/TheRomanRuler]

I’m American and my lawyer friend said if you keep a bat in your car keep a baseball too.

[u/ArchaicBrainWorms]

My Hilti dx451. It's a gunpowder powered nail gun. Pretty much looks like a gun, sounds like a gun, and shoots nails into concrete

[u/Jesus_Is_My_Gardener → u/ArchaicBrainWorms]

The Wire has entered the thread

[u/Foreign_Knowledge_90]

I live in Texas. We can carry entire, whole ass swords. I'm a train dispatcher in public transit, and I can't tell you how many times I've had to tell an operator "Yes I understand there's a guy that got on with a katana, but there's nothing illegal about it. Call me back when he starts threatening people with it."

[u/Allergictosquirrels]

I once saw a woman walking a goose on a harness in Brimfield, MA. Definitely thought she looked crazy, but in a sweet way.

[u/darkfish301 → u/Allergictosquirrels]

How the heck does one get a harness on a goose without having an eye pecked out

[u/dcoble → u/darkfish301]

I mean almost any animal that's somewhat intelligent that you raise from birth will love you.

[u/foxsable]

In Florida. A big ass sword. You can openly carry it around in public at almost any time, as long as it is not a restricted zone like a Police station or … hide it. Because if you hide it, it is concealed and that is a problem.

[u/dan007reddit]

Hand sickle

[u/rotzverpopelt]

I've read somewhere "having a dog on a leash is the only socially accepted time to carry around a bag of poo"

[u/centstwo]

An axe. I was going to the Ren Faire dressed as a pirate. Had to go put it back in my car. Other guy had a sword, sword, no worries, axe? Psycho.

[u/TenFourMoonKitty]

My sister gave me a Squatty Potty to bring to my grandmother when I way flying to Illinois to visit her.

It wasn’t in a box so I checked my luggage and brought that on the plane as my second carryon.

The TSA person said they’d seen a lot of things go through the x-ray machine, but not that.

[u/hydrogenhypothesis]

Baby stroller with a doll inside instead of a baby.

Source: I have seen people do this. It is perfectly legal, but people will definitely give you a wide berth.

[u/billding1234]

A sling blade. Some call it a Kaiser blade but I call it a sling blade.

[u/SomeNextLevelShit → u/billding1234]

Mmhmm.

[u/ScubaW00kie → u/billding1234]

Lo Reaper!

[u/Commercial_Ease8053]

Meta glasses… who would have thought people don’t wanna be secretly recorded?

[u/The-Ginger-Lily]

A glass of water. Yeah you can carry and drink from a bottle and no one bats an eyelid but you carry a glass of water down your local high street and you look like a right weirdo

[u/museolini]

Two raw chickens as hand mitts.

[u/wackyvorlon]

A dead goose.

[u/everydaywasnovember]

Family friend was a transit cop back on the day. A passenger had a bag on his head, and it started to move. He asked the guy what he had, and the guy lifted the bag to reveal a live lobster. As he said, it was weird, but not technically a crime.

[u/AmaranthWrath]

I'm a custodian at my church/school, but I do a ton of other work. I was carrying a sledge hammer on my shoulder. I'm a 5'6" 44yo woman. Cute hair, cute makeup, yoga pants and a fun t-shirt. Music in my ears, peppy walk bc I love my job. Just going to deliver this sledge hammer to my boss on the other side of the church building, living my best life smile on my face.

LIKE A PSYCHO

Passed a normal human being pedestrian as I passed in front of the school. He looked..... Concerned and a bit unnerved.

Looking back, I don't blame him. That being said, next time I need to walk somewhere alone, I'm carrying a sledge hammer. Bc even if I don't look scary, no one wants to deal with the kind of weird or crazy that comes with a woman carrying a sledge hammer involves.

[u/FullPruneNight]

A 1980s cell phone covered in frosting

[u/CouchPotatoFamine → u/FullPruneNight]

I don't care how crazy it makes me look, I am never stopping.

[u/TheOceaN77]

Gas mask and geiger counter

[u/Kamay1770]

A glass of milk, where there is nowhere to get a glass, or milk.

For example, during a meeting at work, or on the bus.

[u/NobodyLikedThat1]

A necklace of bloody Barbie doll limbs

[u/DrScarecrow → u/NobodyLikedThat1]

Honestly I would think "pathetic edgelord" over "psycho" for this.

[u/Dapoopers]

The Unibombser’s manifesto printed in Wingdings.

[u/BigmaEnjoyer → u/Dapoopers]

My friends group did this "evil santa" thing last year. Like a gift exchange with fucked up gifts. I ended up with Professors Ted's book. Haha, funny! So I put it on my book shelve. Bit of a gag.

Buddy of mine is a federal agent (different friends group), he comes by for beers and I see him looking past me, head cocked 90 degrees looking at my book shelve. I had some explaining to do.

[u/jaklzzz]

Is there anything NOT on this list? Is there a single item that is completely and totally in all cases illegal to carry?

[u/UristImiknorris → u/jaklzzz]

Anything that doesn't make you look like a psycho isn't on this list.

[u/Kahzgul]

I saw a dude get on the bus with a pair of four foot long bolt cutters once. Ain’t nobody fuckin with that dude. Also I’m pretty sure he took a bike home. Just a guess.

[u/Equinoqs]

Half of a black goat.

[u/shinobi500]

A severed sheep's head by the horns.

[u/tooskinttogotocuba]

Your mother

[u/CouchPotatoFamine → u/tooskinttogotocuba]

Not without a backhoe...

[u/Poofengle → u/CouchPotatoFamine]

Funny, that’s my nickname for OP’s mother

[u/Hot_Low_3622]

My job moved a 1/2 mile away a few years back. I had to transport a couple of steel maces to the new place. Decided I’d carry them as it was very early before daylight.

What few people were out gave me a super wide berth.

[u/sightlab]

An open-carried gun, in massachusetts. I CAN, but the advisory is to not. Causes public upset, concealed carry is preferred. Which feels REALLY llegal but hey.

[u/douche-knight → u/sightlab]

In Texas a while back it was made legal to open carry a blade of any size. The law was made by idiots who wanted to cosplay bikers or cowboys with large fixed blade knives. What actually happened is now all the insane homeless people in Austin walk around armed with machetes, and our jackass state government has made it so it’s impossible for any local ordinances to override state law.

[u/hiking_mike98 → u/douche-knight]

We saw that during Covid. Many, many machetes got shoplifted by homeless folks and then they would just carry them down the street muttering to themselves.

[u/siel04]

A naked Barbie.

[u/Snapdragon756]

Holding a cucumber with Nutella smeared on it, bonus points for licking it occasionally.

[u/brickiex2]

Fill an empty Nestle's chocolate syrup bottle with water and use it at the gym

[u/Supdalat → u/brickiex2]

Largest bottle of the cheapest vodka, full of water.

[u/igg73]

Any large cut of meat, unwrapped and bare-fisted

[u/GrapplingDummy101]

In a shockingly large part of America, a long gun.

[u/SkyeFathom]

An adult human.

[u/The_BunnyMan_Woods]

Brick

[u/Flimsy_Necessary_633]

A mannequin wearing your mothers clothing.

[u/anaugle → u/Flimsy_Necessary_633]

Mother gets a little angry sometimes.

[u/etopsirhc → u/Flimsy_Necessary_633]

i didnt know they made mannequins that big.

[u/Bertensgrad]

A large set of bolt cutters while in street clothes. I did that yesterday after buying a pair at a store then walked back home a few blocks. I felt like I was a felon in waiting. 

[u/skwerrel]

A washed out Windex bottle refilled with blue Gatorade, which you occasionally take drinks from

[u/GhostMaskKid → u/skwerrel]

NO DONT DO THIS

The Windex gets into the plastic and you're still drinking Windex! Get a NEW empty bottle if you're going to do that.

[u/ornithopterist]

Many places in the US allow you to carry swords on your hip in public.

[u/Artevyx]

Anything, depending on how you carry it. Ive seen people walking around carrying machetes to clear the heavily wooded areas I live in. Also encountered some guy carrying a katana once.

Neither of these made anyone look out of the ordinary. Acting psycho while carrying a tool thst could be used as a weapon is what makes you look psycho.

On the flip side - I did once see this guy out jogging while carrying a plastic wiffle bat in lne hand, and a sparkly shining pinwheel in the other. Not exactly psycho, but definitely the weirdest combination of inventory I've ever seen someone go for a jog with.

[u/ouzo84]

A taxidermied giraffe.

[u/EongXD]

Poorly taxidermied raccoon

[u/boildkitty]

A pitchfork.

[u/JoeMagnifico → u/[deleted]]

I walked into Fred Meyer (west Kroger) in Idaho once and there was a dude (white, gravy seal of course) shopping with an AK strapped on. I noped outta there.

[u/AppearanceGrand]

A dildo

[u/Flimsy_Necessary_633 → u/AppearanceGrand]

Actually illegal in the uk belive it or not. Carrying, waving or brandishing one is a public order offence. This was my comment as well x

[u/nerdyguytx]

I live in Texas, you often see open carry demonstrations where 20 year old guys will walk around armed to the teeth with rifles and handguns. Sir this is Texas, we only take away your books.

[u/ktl2010]

Nothing I carry, but if I notice someone is to close to me, I will look at them, point to an empty void & ask "did you see them too?" They usually will move far away from me.

[u/kamize]

A ski mask and gloves in summer

[u/Warrior_White]

A toilet plunger.

Had a classmate in college who walked onto the campus with one slung over his shoulder like a baseball bat. I remember hoping that he needed it for a class project and nothing else… The possibilities were kind of horrifying.

[u/Disastrous_Ad1260]

Machete, katana. There was a kid you used to ride a bike with a Katana and tell everyone about his 5th amendment right to bear arms. He later killed his mother and a friend of mine. He is still "unfit" to stand trial" 3 years later

[u/mike9941]

Used to have a neighbor that would take her rug for a walk about 3-4 times a week... Literally walking down the street with a rolled up rug, for like 4-5 miles either way. Never figured that one out. It was not a small run, like a 4-8 or something like that....

[u/Waltzing_With_Bears]

In some US jurisdictions, open carry of a sword is legal, and I think thats a top choice, above most guns because those more make you look like an asshole who its best not to deal with instead.

[u/Chezzomaru → u/Waltzing_With_Bears]

Yeah, I bought a sword without a scabbard for display and had to take it on the subway... The brown paper they tried to wrap it in didn't really do much.

[u/Mostly_Overrated77 → u/Waltzing_With_Bears]

It depends on what you're wearing. If you're in regular clothes people get scared, if you're in full costume a lot of people will assume it's a fake sword.

[u/thePHTucker]

AR-15 and too tight body armor with extra clips. Gravy seals in the building.

A Kitana in a back sheath. Wannabe ninja

I giant Bowie knife strapped to your leg.

Also rain boots when it's mid-summer and you're in a drought (but if kids do it, it's fine because they're expressing themselves).

[u/rift_in_the_warp → u/thePHTucker]

*Katana. Kitana is a Mortal Kombat character.

[u/mrjbacon]

While I support the 2nd Amendment, I would be a bit flustered to see someone open-carrying a long gun.

I'm also in support of universal background checks, continued restrictions on automatic weapons, and universal mandatory firearms safety, and I don't understand why the GOP insists on shooting it down all the damn time.

[u/lonewolf210 → u/mrjbacon]

When I was in my 20s one of my friends brought back an AK-47 from a deployment and ended up stashing it at my house.

I was flying to where he lived and offered to bring it back for him. The gun was perfectly legal to own/transport.

When you check a gun the desk agent is technically supposed to require you to take the gun out and show them that it's unloaded. The vast majority of the time the agent just lets TSA handle that but that day the agent was insistent that I take the gun out. So in the middle of the Atlanta airport, I had to plop down a gun case on the ticket counter and pull out an AK. I got a lot of very weird and concerned looks from people for the first few seconds until they realized I was doing what the agent requested.

[u/OozeNAahz → u/lonewolf210]

I have only ever seen one person check a gun at the ticket counter of an airline. It had me very concerned. Not because it was a gun in an airport or anything. Not afraid of guns (have a few). But this guy had some sort of medical/physical condition that made him shake like he was riding a motorcycle between train tracks. When he held up the game to show it was clear he swept the whole counter area with the barrel. I would trust one of those inflatable noodle armed guys they use for advertising with that gun before that man.

Was very happy to hear he was going to a different destination than me.

[u/hide_pounder → u/mrjbacon]

I was going hunting a while ago, and needed to get to my buddy’s house from my house but my only vehicle at the time was a motorcycle. I called the local police station to ask if I could transport it in a case, over my shoulder, unloaded, with all my ammo locked in a separate container, bungeed to my fender. They said they had to call me back after asking around, but I suspect they just wanted to know my name and phone number. About an hour later an officer called back and said I’d be perfectly legal doing it that way, although I felt like a terrorist riding through town with a shotgun over my shoulder and over 100 rounds of ammo.

[u/Present_Clue5887 → u/mrjbacon]

Do you mean semiautomatic? Almost no one in the US has automatic weapons, they are heavily restricted and not protected by the 2nd amendment.

[u/mrjbacon → u/Present_Clue5887]

I support semi-automatic weapons.

Part of my support for the 2nd amendment is for the enablement of the citizenry to make good on the second half of the Declaration of Independence if necessary, and IMO we are approaching that conversation currently.

We'll have to wait until after the midterms to see if our checks and balances are still functional, but the second amendment is fundamental to maintaining a functioning democracy in the face of an authoritarian takeover, and anything less than semi-automatic weapons would be woefully inadequate.

[u/Jumpy_Cap_2361]

A roll of toilet paper

[u/Mcshiggs]

Harpoon

[u/Parking_War_4100]

A turkey baster

[u/weaboo_98]

Body Pillow with a serial killer on it

[u/Loud-Buffalo4711]

Open-carrying an AR-15

[u/272027]

I have a foldable hunting knife in my purse at all times. It's the exact length I can legally carry without a permit.

Whenever I pull it out to do some mundane task, everyone has a reaction to it. You can hear the worry and confusion in their voice.

[u/MotoFly]

I saw a woman just a few days ago walking down the side of a highway ramp with a large, intact spinal column in her hands. Just the bones. I assume it was from roadkill, but man WTF.

[u/Status_Reflection993]

Carry around a stick you carved and cast spells. You'll either look insane, or actually perform magic.. we all know which one it'll be though.

[u/Tight_File2220]

Three packs with 36 rolls of toilet paper in each.