Bad stuff.
I live in Texas because you can have a gun in the car even if you don’t have a LTC/CHL as long as it is out of sight.
September 1, 2021 anyone who can buy a gun legally can carry a gun legally, open or concealed. Constitutional carry has arrived in less than 30 days.
Your GOD given rights are there even without that piece of paper, you can defend yourself, you can speak freely, and you can redress your government by grace of GOD.
Sorry she wasn’t able to do that.
Stay armed patriots, you can’t count on the police to protect you.
To be a bit more specific, current law says you have to be:
Legal owner of the vehicle
Legal owner of the handgun, and
The handgun must be concealed.
It has always been legal to carry long guns openly in Texas, I carried a .22 Marlin lever action and 16 ga Winchester shotgun in a gun rack in my truck for years. Get pulled over for some reason, cops wouldn’t even mention them.
Previous Texas vehicle carry law required that you be on a legitimate trip outside your own home county to carry a handgun, often not easy to back up in court. It was changed in 2007 to the current status.
I keep either a 9mm or .380 in the console of my car these days, covered with a small towel to comply with the concealed requirement. After Sept 1, I’ll probably keep it that way, especially when parked if I don’t carry it with me. There will be certain places you still can’t legally carry, like schools, courtrooms, any business or building with a gun free sticker...
Something us Texans need to take a look at is this - FAQ concerning the upcoming constitutional carry policy.
https://texas.gunowners.org/1927faq/
I need to also look up the online safety course and the bill itself, I’m sure some folks on here would like to take a gander at those too.
If I got it right, this should be a PDF of the final bill.
https://capitol.texas.gov/tlodocs/87R/billtext/pdf/HB01500F.pdf#navpanes=0