No, as a life long AZ resident, if your lawfully carried concealed firearms or firearms became accidentally exposed, you just went from legal - concealed, to legal - open. No worries.
True...that's very simple, and of course the operative word is accidentally.
However, should one deliberately expose, point to, place one's hand upon, or mention a firearm in a potential confrontation, the Defensive Display of a Firearm justification could come into play as a defense against charges of aggravated assault.
The issue would then be , did the person with the firearm, knowing what he or she knew at the time, have a reasonable basis for believing that doing so had been immediately necessary to defend against an imminent threat of (at least) physical non deadly force?
That will be determined by others after the fact, based on evidence and testimony presented to them.
And this could be the rub: witnesses may well have seen and been aware of the person's behavior concerning the firearm, but there is a good possibility that their attention had not been drawn to the situation until after what the defendant claims to have necessitated his or her actions had already occurred. They may only be able to describe what they saw as an unlawful act.
That's just the way things often work.
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