I'm not super familiar with Texas statutes but afaik simply being a member of a gang isn't against the law. It certainly colors the way law enforcement views you though.
If fact there was testimony from the stand that known gang members were prohibited from carrying weapons in public.
I don't know how accurate that testimony is or whether Jake Carrizal has a criminal history, but it does open the door to whether or not he had a right to be carrying a gun that day.
I think you have things right, pretty much all down the line, and do thank you specifically for this;
There are logical reasons for it I do believe. And, there is some case law support for that understanding.
That came from a Waco PD officer, correct?
I wonder how that works. I assume it may be that those identified as gang members may find their way onto listings and filings that would preclude themselves be issued CCW permit? That could be one way to achieve that end. How else I do wonder.
The prosecution surely did want to plant that thought in the minds of the jurors, it seemed plain to me, assuming here that information-wise we're both going by the same Witherspoon "Tweet Machine".
From elsewhere, I know of another Bandido, who even after having been charged twice with forms of assault charges -- each of which included mention of the guy having a gun, and using, or else displaying it in threatening manner ---was no-billed-- twice --and then later, was also arrested for criminal conspiracy, and murder (the conspiracy being associated with a homicide) who ended up being not indicted for anything other than violation of possession of a weapon in a prohibited location (a bar serving alcohol) but was no-billed for that too(!) on grounds that the facility lacked adequate legal signage (to identify the location as prohibited to 'legal carry' permit holders).
According to newspaper accounts and eye witnesses, he was one of whom a county prosecutor had initially said of (but without openly mentioning his name) within a trial, was among "30" Bandidos. That number, curiously enough --and coming from the prosecutor's lips became reduced the next day to "20 Bandidos" who had arrived at a bar in Fort Worth -- and "didn't even try to buy a drink!" (as the prosecutor stressed several times that I heard with my own ears) before starting to attack bar patrons. I was left wondering -- just how many Bandidos were there, and if the prosecutor was off by one-third (or even a bit more) what else could she have been getting not quite right?
I saw with my own eyes electronic record of the three (count 'em -- three) no-bills for firearm related offenses, for this one individual -- who as I understand it, was indeed 'a Bandido' and was in fact (according to a witness whom I heard with my own ears mention when testifying in court) among the 30 20 (or so? maybe less? at least a dozen? can I hear fifteen? lol) non-drinkers who attacked drinkers who belonged to clubs called Ghost Riders, Winos (or Wino Crew?) and one lone Cossack (who was "acting weird" according to eyewitness accounts -- maybe he was tweaking? I dunno). The Fort Worth chapter president got something like 46 years in the pen for just being there, or something like that. Interestingly enough in that case, in comparison to the Carrizal case, one part of the prosecutor's theory (that they plainly inferred to the jury) was that the Fort Worth president-guy was the biker who had come into the bar still wearing his motorcycle helmet. Sound familiar?
You know who was also there in that courtroom? I saw her with my own eyes (she's quite the gal, in person). None other than Amanda Dillon. Ten to 12 days later (after the Tarrant County prosecution had finished up securing conviction of Howard Wayne Baker) the "news" from McLennan County that a trial date ---that had already been set for one of the Twin Peaks defendants other than Carrizal --- had been -- with no notice(?) taken from that other defendant, and assigned to Carrizal. And that's the way the cow ate that particular bit of cabbage. No offense to Amanda, I did not mean to infer here, that she was "a cow".