Not sure if this helps you guys, but this is a document from Micha's site. It was from the AG's office, and delt with open VS concealed carry.....
In State vs Fluker, 311 So.2d 863 (1975), the defendant had been
arrested for carrying a handgun in a holster on his hip. The weapon was
exposed except for that portion in the holster, and it was fully recognizable
as a weapon. The LOUISIANA Supreme Court, in reversing Fluker's conviction,
stated that 'by making the offense of concealment a crime of specific intent,
the legislature has abandoned the old rule that a partially hidden weapon is a
concealed weapon in favor of a more realistic proscription that contemplates
that a weapon, although not in 'full open view,' is nonetheless not a concealed
weapon, if it is sufficiently exposed to reveal its identity.
If the weapon is carried in a manner that reveals its identity, its carrier
cannot be presumed to have intended to conceal it and, accordingly, is not in
violation of the statute ...... The appropriate test to be applied in
prosecutions for illegal carrying of weapons is whether, under the facts and
circumstances of the case as disclosed by the evidence, the manner in which
defendant carried the weapon revealed an intent to conceal its identity.'
http://louisianacarry.org/laws/Attorney%20General's%20opinion%20on%20open%20carry.doc
In State vs Fluker, 311 So.2d 863 (1975), the defendant had been
arrested for carrying a handgun in a holster on his hip. The weapon was
exposed except for that portion in the holster, and it was fully recognizable
as a weapon. The LOUISIANA Supreme Court, in reversing Fluker's conviction,
stated that 'by making the offense of concealment a crime of specific intent,
the legislature has abandoned the old rule that a partially hidden weapon is a
concealed weapon in favor of a more realistic proscription that contemplates
that a weapon, although not in 'full open view,' is nonetheless not a concealed
weapon, if it is sufficiently exposed to reveal its identity.
If the weapon is carried in a manner that reveals its identity, its carrier
cannot be presumed to have intended to conceal it and, accordingly, is not in
violation of the statute ...... The appropriate test to be applied in
prosecutions for illegal carrying of weapons is whether, under the facts and
circumstances of the case as disclosed by the evidence, the manner in which
defendant carried the weapon revealed an intent to conceal its identity.'
http://louisianacarry.org/laws/Attorney%20General's%20opinion%20on%20open%20carry.doc
