You can ask them their intent if they are still alive. Won't matter, they can't change it now without getting elected back to that post. Fact remains, they made it a papers please state for all handgun carriers and nobody has cared to change that fact since.
Courts would be overstepping their bounds to legislate from the bench.
Get the stupid law changed through the proper channels but don't expect your thoughts (or mine) on original intent to be much of a factor on enforcement in the meantime.
I totally disagree. I cant find it in the law where cops have the express authority to walk up to every OC-er they find and demand papers,,,
Heres all it says
IC 35-47-2-1
Carrying a handgun without a license or by person convicted of domestic battery
Sec. 1. (a) Except as provided in subsection (b) and section 2 of this chapter, a person shall not carry a handgun in any vehicle or on or about the person's body, except in the person's dwelling, on the person's property or fixed place of business, without a license issued under this chapter being in the person's possession.
If the cops had the permission to walk up to every OC-er and check for licenses it would be in there. I cant find it and I cant find where an OC-er is required to produce a license on demand of a cop. You can call that reading into the law but I say right back that the cops are reading what they want into the law too.
The basic rules of arrest still apply. There is no PC or RAS for papers-please-ing every OC-er just for OC-ing...