TX, FL, and SC prohibit open carry? That’s a shocker - I would think it would be the opposite.
Most laws against open carry in the South are very racist in their roots.
/johnny
There is some history there. Florida doesn’t allow open carry only since 1987, when it passed its concealed carry licensing law. So it is “collateral damage”.
Texas is an odd case because they had a law in 1872 that you could open carry, when “traveling”, but it got whittled down over many years to the point where it confused everybody.
“The rather “exhaustive” complete list of exceptions to the criminality of carrying a handgun are available in Chapter 46 of the Texas Penal Code. It is casually referred to as Texas “cord of wood” handgun law.
South Carolina has been trying to get rid of its law for some years, but there is one state senator in charge of the committee that keeps killing the bill. The arrogant SOB thinks he knows better that 47 other states and the rest of his state.