Have we become such a nanny state that people need to be reminded of this?

I don't support the protest, simply because the general population isn't ready for it. Maybe in a few years, if they get rid of the currently required ATTs and appearance-based classifications.

In a strange public alert Thursday, the Halton Regional Police reminded citizens that “it is not illegal to wear a holster” even if “people may be concerned with the sight of them in the community.”

The statement was in response to news that members of a fringe lobby group, Operation Sheepdog, would be appearing in public on April 17 wearing empty pistol holsters to lobby for a loosening of Canada’s little-known laws concerning concealed handguns.
Halton Regional Police remind residents 'it is not illegal to wear a holster' | Posted Toronto | National Post (http://news.nationalpost.com/2012/04/13/halton-regional-police-remind-residents-it-is-not-illegal-to-wear-a-holster/)

simply because the general population isn't ready for it.

why how patronizing of you - making that call on behalf the "general population" :rolleyes:

why how patronizing of you - making that call on behalf the "general population" :rolleyes:

I realize how it sounds, but people are already freaking out about the long gun registry being abolished, and the NDP are promising to reinstate it if elected into power.

How do you think they would react if it became easier to get a handgun, let alone an ATC permit? It's political suicide right now.

I realize how it sounds, but people are already freaking out about the long gun registry being abolished, and the NDP are promising to reinstate it if elected into power.

How do you think they would react if it became easier to get a handgun, let alone an ATC permit? It's political suicide right now.

legal or not.. guns are on the street.. I rather see them in the holster than wonder if they have them. - So that said.. it is what it is.. registry or not.. [ registry is unless any way] because I am not worried about the ones that are legal rather illegal...

cool, we can be like say, Texas, where if you have an argument in traffic say, you just pull that gun outta yer glove department and point it at the other guy, and bing you win!

Holsters are just so ugly! They need to make them for the fashion friendly for the Canadian Public!