and NO it was NOT enforced, unless the LEO thought you were "up to no good".Thanks for the info, I kind of thought that was the way it was handled. I know that such characters as Ben Thompson, John Wesley Hardin, and Luke Short regularly carried guns in TX in the old days, and not many people would have tried to disarm those folks.
darn near everyone in my home county "carries" at one time or another. even my 89 years YOUNG mother has a long- barrelled Colt's Woodsman, which she carries on the farm for snakes and other critters.
free dixie,sw