So I had been open carrying for my 2nd day at Brown County State Park and this DNR officer drives around camp at like 8PM and pulls over at the campsite I was staying it. He lights it up with his brights and tells me to put my pistol away. When I asked why, he tells me that its only conceal carry inside the state park. I was pretty sure that you could open carry in any state park as long as it was not owned by the Army Corps.
He tells me that the campgrounds are a friendly place and firearms are not prohibited as long as they are legally owned but they are not allowed to be seen. I tell the officer that there were no signs saying such, and as my GF looks on the ingo website for the rules on carry, she can't find where it says you can't open carry at state parks. I could see this officer was not gonna settle to be shown that he was wrong, so I had to put my gun away as i did not have a way of totally concealing it.
Should I write the head of the park and ask him to educate his staff on proper laws, or should I just let it go and chalk this one up to me pushing my luck thinking I could carry without someone saying something?
He tells me that the campgrounds are a friendly place and firearms are not prohibited as long as they are legally owned but they are not allowed to be seen. I tell the officer that there were no signs saying such, and as my GF looks on the ingo website for the rules on carry, she can't find where it says you can't open carry at state parks. I could see this officer was not gonna settle to be shown that he was wrong, so I had to put my gun away as i did not have a way of totally concealing it.
Should I write the head of the park and ask him to educate his staff on proper laws, or should I just let it go and chalk this one up to me pushing my luck thinking I could carry without someone saying something?