...but if they have legalized brass knuckles, a cane gun that had a single shot 38 Spl in it should be legalized too.
This is a non sequitur. The fact that one particular weapon is unrestricted has no bearing on whether another different type of weapon should be similarly unrestricted.
If someone really needs a cane, and they carry a cane gun, what would happen if they went to court on a speeding ticket?
If their cane gun was detected, they would be charged and convicted because the evidence would be pretty obvious. The fact that they really need a cane doesn't mean they can carry a firearm disguised as a cane into an area where firearms are restricted.
...if brass knuckles are legal, a senior citizen should be able to have a cane gun, in my opinion?
Any citizen can have a cane gun as long as they go through the proper procedure to get one and are not prohibited persons. However that doesn't mean they'll be able to carry it anywhere they want to. Brass knuckles have nothing to do with the legality of carrying firearms or owning firearms or owning/carrying disguised firearms.
Your opinion is interesting, but it has no weight of law.
For the folks that say it’s an NFA item, I realize this and the whole point would be to have it removed from that classification.
No state can do that because it's a federal law that classifies it as an NFA item. But even if it were removed from that classification, it would still be a firearm under TX law and therefore subject to the normal TX restrictions on firearm carry.
I’ve heard that zip guns are illegal because they don’t have rifling that can be used to prove where a bullet came from, but there may be more to it.
They're illegal because the law says that they're illegal. Maybe that's why they were originally restricted, but at this point, they are illegal because they fit the definition of an illegal item under TX law.
Probably a lack of a serial number doesn’t help matters either.
There's no requirement for personally made firearms to have a serial number under either federal or TX law.
I think your assumption that a cane gun would be illegal because it was a zip gun could be mitigated by manufacturing a cane gun with a serial number...
1. He didn't assume it was a zip gun, he stated that it MIGHT qualify as a zip gun under TX laws.
2. No, there is nothing in TX law that says a zip gun isn't a zip gun if it has a serial number. What people think about the law doesn't change what it says or how the courts interpret it.
I also feel as though if used for walking, it is a cane, not a weapon in your hand, until you need to use it to protect yourself.
How people feel or what they think should be legal has no bearing on what the law says or how the courts interpret it.
I wonder if a cane gun built before 1899 would be ok.
Where did you get the number 1899? From federal law relating to firearms. What does that have to do with TX law? Nothing.