If it is winter and you have multiple layers on, your weapon goes in a pocket of the outermost layer, in a holster. If you aren't doing this, you aren't armed! Like most here, I open carry in the woods, BBQ's, places where like minded people gather. I occasionally would open carry at Walmart, before they asked people to stop. I worked in California in 2009, you couldn't conceal carry, but could open carry an unloaded gun with its ammunition also open carried. So the Californians staged "events" where bunches of people gathered and open carried rubbing it in peoples faces. The legislature made that illegal. Kind of like what happened to the big Red Wave that fizzled after Conservatives rubbed Roe vs Wade in everyone's face. Be tactical people, THINK, what are the consequences of my actions? Good luck!
gramps