Posted on 09/07/2009 6:43:13 PM PDT by Still Thinking
This year's legislative session made several changes regarding concealed handgun licenses.
House Bill 2730 and House Bill 2664 concern CHL policies and the authority of DPS to enforce those policies.
As of today, defaulting on a student loan no longer disqualifies a concealed handgun applicant and a Justice of the Peace can no longer confiscate your conceal-and-carry permit if you refuse to display it while you are not in possession of the weapon.
And the eyes of the law are a little more tolerant concerning carrying a firearm in public places.
Previously, carrying a firearm into a business that derives more than fifty percent of its revenue from alcohol sales was a third-degree felony.
Now the same violation is considered a class A misdemeanor, and is legally defensible if the establishment does not clearly post their alcohol revenue percentage.
To read more complete analyses of those bills, follow the links below.
Shoot, we’re all getting ready to arm up down here!
ROFL!
Never invalidate an improving stat, I always say. This is improvement. Hope we’ll see more.
Eggs-actly.
Oregon has no such restriction, and I can't remember the last time there was a shooting at a bar or restaurant. Liberals. . . .
I hate the gun-thieves, those Bradies. </Texan speak>
Now if they can do something about lowering the price of the card. A piece of plastic shouldn’t cost that much.
And if there’d ever be a time you’d want to shoot someone in a bar or restaurant, it be so much more likely if they were a liberal, and Oregon is full of ‘em, so if it’s safe there...
I am 64 and long retired, the only thing stopping me from moving to Texas is my wife loves her job and makes a ton of money. We have enough, she could retire too, she just doesn’t want to. I am between the proverbial rock and hard place.
I currently live in Illinois, where it is illegal to think about guns.
Yee-hawwww!!!!!!
God bless Texas, Remember the Alamo and all that!!!!!
Living in a college town in Texas, this conversation between several college students (my daughter included) was recently overheard:
My daughter - “I can’t wait to turn 21!”
Friend - “I know, me too! We should go together!”
Other friend - “To Harry’s for a drink?”
Daughter- “No! Concealed carry classes!”
where it is illegal to think about guns.
Hey Gray,All you have to ask is “Do you have a spare”.
I always hear how great Texas’s gun laws are but Colorado doesn’t have any of those restrictions.
Channel 9 is notorious around our house for screwing up the news. Even worse on second amendment issues.
“a Justice of the Peace can no longer confiscate your conceal-and-carry permit if you refuse to display it while you are not in possession of the weapon.”
False, A J.P. never could take your license for not displaying when not carrying.
Not displaying the license when asked for ID while carrying was could result in having a license suspended. Revoked on a further offense. That has been changed to a misdemeanor with no penalty for a first offense.
The reason is to be more inline with our “car carry” Motorist Protection Act, where any law abiding person can carry concealed in their vehicle with no license, and no requirement to notify an officer of a gun if their is an ID request.
Sometimes these little Caesars just get wayyyy out of hand.
Couldn't ameliorate the situation by taking some long hunting trips to Texas and bringing back some awesome pork for barbecues?
gotta love Texas
Those restrictions were concessions to the anti-gun hysterics claiming blood would 'run in the streets' if the CCW bill passed.
Fourteen years of lawful CCW have debunked all that crap, and the restrictions are loosening up.
*bang bump*
They are a pest. and dangerous but good with jalepeno and cheese in sausage
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