[Dan Nunn]

Open Carry is not lawful (except under specific circumstances, such as to/from hunting or on your own property).

[TXnMA]

Texas, for example, is a "shall issue" concealed carry state -- but the CCL statutes require that weapons carried in public must be concealed. In theory, it is a violation of law if your "concealed" weapon "prints thru" your covering clothes -- or if those clothes "ride up", thus, inadvertently exposing your weapon.

There are bills in the works in the Texas Legislature to remedy that absurdity -- IOW, to allow open carry in public.

Out here in the boonies, I carry openly -- with a couple of "snake" (shot) loads "up top". In urban environments, I consider concealment to be both tactically and socially superior. But I hate having to be paranoid about preserving concealment just because of a stupid law!