[ConservativeInPA]

Correct me if I am wrong, but this is an open carry law, not a constitutional carry law. Maybe it is nomenclature, but in PA we are and have been allowed to open carry weapons. PA has never been on the list of constitutional carry states that I have seen. To me constitutional carry is you can carry your weapon any damn way you want and the government won't do anything about it. By the way, open carry exists in PA due to a lack of a law.

What is needed is all gun control laws to be removed from the books and to in line with the constitution.

[Wonder Warthog]

Consider yourself corrected. It “is” constitutional carry, open “or” concealed.

[TexasGurl24]

This is a CONSTITUTIONAL carry law, not an open carry law.

[Yo-Yo]

Sorry to say, but you are wrong. This allows concealed carry without a Texas LTC.

https://www.texastribune.org/2021/06/16/texas-constitutional-carry-greg-abbott/

Before the permitless carry law was signed, Texans generally needed to be licensed to carry handguns openly or concealed. Applicants had to submit fingerprints, complete four to six hours of training, and pass a written exam and a shooting proficiency test. Texas does not require a license to openly carry a rifle in public.

[dirtboy]

Texas already had permitless open carry. This provides for permitless concealed carry.

[BobL]

“Correct me if I am wrong, but this is an open carry law, not a constitutional carry law.”

Naa, we’ve had Open Carry for a while here, this is the real thing - if you’re legally allowed to carry, you can carry with or without a permit. The Republicans, led by Lt. Governmor Dan Patrick, did try to plot the demise of this bill, due to a bunch of paranoid Sheriffs thinking their counties would become a shooting gallery (as they also predicted with Concealed Carry and then Open Carry), so he was ‘deferring’ to them...but sorry Dan, we’re ADULTS in Texas and can handle guns responsibly...and we let you know just that.