Stevie_d_64 : I’m not sure of your meaning, but in Texas open carry of a long rifle is quite legal... and of course concelaed carry pretty much is a state requirment !! The legislature is working on open carry of firearms as in Arizona because the fear of accidental exposing a concealed weapon keeps many from carrying... and carrying is a GOOD thing for law-abiding citizens !! Let’s hope the folks in Austin don’t get hung up on this politially correct banning bandwaggon that will do nothing but hamper the rights of the law-abiding and allow the criminals easier means of committing their crimes !!
The leg tried to introduce an “open carry” billlast session in 2011...It was not filed due to the blustering of the Open Carry movement, they overstepped their bounds and cost the one state Rep who was going to walk this bill through...We tried to get her to re-consider, but she was not going to take the political heat from the assinine statement(s) made by this organization...
But that is all in the past...What is going to be introduced is a lessening of the enforcement of un-intemntional exposure of your firearm if you are a Texas CHL holder...That is a good thing, probably to remove the provisions of suspension or revoking of the license, and other punishable provisions in the Texas Penal Code...
Soory if I was ambiguous about the long gun issue...I do understand it is acceptable in Texas to do so, but the caveat to that is that some jurisdictions that are NOT friendly to civilain firearm issues will find a way to charge you with a disorderly conduct...
Also, as far as open carry in Texas is concerned, it is an overfal negative that would change things in regards to private businesses posting the provisions of section 30.06 and its restrictions that is improperly interpreted by those same entities, that would have those signs popping up all over the place...So, that provision in the penal code would have to be re-worded to allow open carry in this state...A political move that would not be successful at this time anyway...
A nieghbor of mine who IS on the NRA board of directors explained this to me a few years ago, and I have to say that I agree with his oncerns about this issue...He was intimately involved in the writing of the bill back in the early 1990’s and worked extremely hard with Patterson and others to get it through finally in 1995...
Most of us are happy with the way things are going now as far as Texas CHL is concerned...Things are always acceptable to tweek the law every two years,but for now we have bigger issues to deal with now...And we still have the law to cover us anyway...