Legal to open carry a pistol on a bicycle in your state?

[JDgreen227]

I belong to a group of cyclists and some of the ladies want to open carry while riding their bicycle for safety reasons, but the laws here consider a bicycle to be a vehicle and therefore open carry of a pistol while riding is illegal...meaning they have to pay for a CCW permit and go through training, more expense. To me, the law is too restrictive...I too wish I could open carry on my bicycle.

Comments, please?

 

[C4Ranch]

Get the permit and do the training plus more training.

 

[davesl708]

Yes. Soon to be able to conceal carry without a permit.

 

[coobie]

I belong to a group of cyclists and some of the ladies want to open carry while riding their bicycle for safety reasons, but the laws here consider a bicycle to be a vehicle and therefore open carry of a pistol while riding is illegal...meaning they have to pay for a CCW permit and go through training, more expense. To me, the law is too restrictive...I too wish I could open carry on my bicycle.

Comments, please?

What are the safety reasons the ladies want to open carry? Just curious since I have my michigan CPL.

 

[coobie]

Get the permit and do the training plus more training.

I fully agree ++1

 

[JDgreen227]

What are the safety reasons the ladies want to open carry? Just curious since I have my michigan CPL.

Some of them train for distance rides on rural roads with no guys along...sorry...that should be rather obvious.

 

[JDgreen227]

Yes. Soon to be able to conceal carry without a permit.

EVERYBODY with a legally registered pistol should have that right.

 

[coobie]

Some of them train for distance rides on rural roads with no guys along...sorry...that should be rather obvious.

But why the open carry?Why not the concealed carry?Would the open carry ward off the folks who want to harm them?

 

[quicksandfarmer]

Michigan doesn't consider a bicycle a vehicle.

Michigan Bicycle Law

MCL 257.79 defines a "vehicle" as "every device in, upon, or by which any person or property is or may be transported or drawn upon a highway, except devices exclusively moved by human power...

The traffic laws which apply to operators of vehicles also apply to operators of bicycles. Is the open carry restriction in the traffic code or another section? Does it say "vehicles and bicycles" or just "vehicles"?

 

[murphy1244]

legally registered pistol? Don't have those here.