If you can't conceal a weapon by law, then just make sure no police see it.  The personal safety of those around you is more important than any marxist law. If you don't want to carry a gun. Get an alternative and learn to use it, a bat, a knife, whatever you can carry. Even though I live in a very safe place with very few mud monkeys, I never leave the house without wearing a sturdy belt with a buckle that has some weight to it. Always easy to take off when you've gotten into a bad situation and it can crack skulls, lacerate the face very badly, or break hand and fingers bones of an attacker. Learned that lesson back in high school and never forgot it.    If you doubt what I say, go buy yourself a sturdy melon and put it on a fencepost and take a few hearty whacks at it using the belt. You'll soon see what I mean.    Unless you wear one that looks decidedly weapon-like it's very doubtful that you could be brought up on a weapons charge for using it to protect yourself. Something about using it also screams last resort as well.    Anyone else ever take off their belt to an attacker?