Looks like Open Carry will finally be passed in TX

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"If you have a drivers license must you no longer walk?"
Bad analogy; we plebes typically have the right to walk as we please without papers. This development is more like combining two classes of driver's licenses (passenger car and bus, I guess)

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Way to go TX!

Hopefully us Floridians will follow suit. Weve passed some amazing laws in Florida the past few years (Castle doctrine, open carry while fishing, hunting, camping, unlicensed vehicle carry, take your gun to work, ccw on campus, etc), but a step like this would be amazing!

Thank you TEXAS, keep doing what your doing by moving forward!
 
The views of Chiefs in large cities seldom align with the officers actually out there working.
 
It makes sense

It makes sense that Artie would want the ability to stop everyone. Because if within his right, he would. He would make it top priority to vet out every person who is open carrying. To the point where it would become harassment. Likely enough to discourage folks from OCing in the first place. This guy is all about stripping people of their personal freedoms to put more control in the hands of police.


http://www.theblaze.com/stories/201...likely-have-some-gun-owners-a-little-on-edge/
 
While I spent 22 years in the Army, protecting these jerks right to free speech, it is sad to see and hear these police officers in positions of authority not doing the same and actively trying to take our rights away.
 
calaverasslim said:
While I spent 22 years in the Army, protecting these jerks right to free speech, it is sad to see and hear these police officers in positions of authority not doing the same and actively trying to take our rights away.
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Thank you for your service.


This is what the world is coming to. This is why open carry is such a win for us, and why we need to use our rights.
 
I wish I had land near Sierra Blanca...I love that part of the world.

OC does come in handy out on the farm or ranch.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr
 
LeonCarr said:
I wish I had land near Sierra Blanca...I love that part of the world.

OC does come in handy out on the farm or ranch.

Just my .02,
LeonCarr
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Leon, Ive got 10 acres on a mountain top in the desert you need a 4x4 to get to. You can have it for 2grand right now. Taxes are paid up :) 90 bucks a year.
 
Why doesn't Texas just introduce a bill for Constitutional carry (CC) instead of OC. We have OC here and I never see it. People just don't want to advertise that they are armed. Same thing will happen in TX.

What people really need is constitutional carry. No permit to carry however you want. Police can't profile you if you look just like every other citizen walking down the street. If they want to stop you that's fine, but they will need a better reason than an OC.

OC just isn't all it's cracked up to be. It frightens soccer moms and causes the police to stop you based on the fact that they are the police and *something just doesn't look 100% right here*. Police don't like people who are armed and if they know you are that's a negative situation for them right there. Out of sight, out of mind.

OC is fine down on the farm but for pavement dwellers it adds up to a right that few will take advantage of.
 
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It wasn't taken away for lack of being used. It really wasn't meant to be taken away at all--the fairly obvious intent when the law was passed right after the Civil War was to make it possible to prosecute freedmen who were bold enough to carry pistols.
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That's correct. "Gun Control" was originally meant to protect the Ku Klux Klan from armed blacks who might object to being hanged or whipped.
 
CoalTrain49 said:
Why doesn't Texas just introduce a bill for Constitutional carry (CC) instead of OC. We have OC here and I never see it. People just don't want to advertise that they are armed. Same thing will happen in TX.

What people really need is constitutional carry. No permit to carry however you want. Police can't profile you if you look just like every other citizen walking down the street. If they want to stop you that's fine, but they will need a better reason than an OC.

OC just isn't all it's cracked up to be. It frightens soccer moms and causes the police to stop you based on the fact that they are the police and *something just doesn't look 100% right here*.

OC is fine down on the farm but for pavement dwellers it adds up to a right that few will take advantage of.
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OC just isn't all it's cracked up to be. It frightens soccer moms and causes the police stop you based on the fact that they are the police and *something just doesn't look 100% right here*.
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This is exactly what I'm talking about. There are so many things that people have been uncomfortable with in this world. But when you make someone deal with it, it becomes a non issue. This is why we need to exercise the right if we get it. To make it normal.
 
Folks,

Lets stick strictly to the 2A political and 2A social issues and not go off the topic. Activism Discussion is solely dedicated to working up plans to advance the 2A and we want to keep focus.

So what else can be done to advance this legislation so it goes through as the first step to getting unregulated open carry through in TX?
 
hso said:
So what else can be done to advance this legislation so it goes through as the first step to getting unregulated open carry through in TX?
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Vote for people who don't look at the Constitution like it's a roll of Charmin would be a good start.
 
Too vague and no real plan and not going to address the problem here/now, unfortunately.

At THIS particular time in THIS particular case what is actually being done to get the Texas legislators to follow through without backstabbing the 2A and the people of Texas on this legislation?
 
hso said:
Too vague and no real plan and not going to address the problem here/now, unfortunately.

At THIS particular time in THIS particular case what is actually being done to get the Texas legislators to follow through without backstabbing the 2A and the people of Texas on this legislation?
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Short term thinking leads to long term problems. If they thought backstabbing would send them packing you wouldn't have to figure out how to keep them from backstabbing. So why not tell them all that?
 
Right now, the big enemy is time. Letting your Senators know that HB910 is acceptable to you with amendments and that you'd like to see a concurring vote on the bill scheduled as soon as possible is probably the shortest route.

The Texas House did us no favors. By reporting the House version rather than the Senate, the House added unnecessary delay to the process. The Schaefer amendment complicated that even further and the Dutton/Rinaldi Amendment had about 20+ votes from Representatives who had tried to block or sabotage HB910.
 
We need to get busy contacting our State Senators and asking them to support this bill and to urge the Senate to act on it as quickly as possible. Time is of the essence! If we don't get this bill moving, it could wind up dying at the end of the session, and it would be two more years before it could be resurrected!

If you need contact info. for your Senator use the website below to find your Senator. You can find them by entering your zip code.

http://www.fyi.legis.state.tx.us/Zip.aspx

Please call/write/email today! The Senate will reconvene at 2:00pm Monday 4/27/15. We need to get them moving on this!
 
Bartholomew Roberts said:
Right now, the big enemy is time. Letting your Senators know that HB910 is acceptable to you with amendments and that you'd like to see a concurring vote on the bill scheduled as soon as possible is probably the shortest route.

The Texas House did us no favors. By reporting the House version rather than the Senate, the House added unnecessary delay to the process. The Schaefer amendment complicated that even further and the Dutton/Rinaldi Amendment had about 20+ votes from Representatives who had tried to block or sabotage HB910.
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When do you expect significant activity towards a conclusion?

From your post it looks like the anti faction is trying to bog it down with procedures.

Thanks---Bexar
 
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