[de Buillion]

"As of the first, Texans can carry loaded weapons in our vehicles...no need to get permits anymore. That'll make would be thugs think twice! "

I personally don't think that that law made much difference. Folks I know that wanted a gun in their car had one anyway. Just alligned the state law with a God given right.

[Spktyr]

That was only loaded pistols. You've been able to legally carry a loaded longarm in your vehicle (or on your person) since the beginning of Texas.

This was just a correction of badly worded state law to align it with reality and, as you say, the rights derived from God.

[Ichneumon]

["As of the first, Texans can carry loaded weapons in our vehicles...no need to get permits anymore. That'll make would be thugs think twice! "]

I personally don't think that that law made much difference. Folks I know that wanted a gun in their car had one anyway.

Actually, you could *always* legally carry a loaded rifle or shotgun in your car in Texas.

The new law change only applies to *handguns*, and only clarifies an older law that already made it legal to carry a handgun in your car if you were "traveling" (the problem was that the old law never actually defined "traveling").