Open carry in Texas

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To open carry or not - a personal decision if it is legal where you are.

There have been many tactical reasons noted that define why it probably isn't the best way to carry.

For me it is a matter of comfort and access - more comfortable and quicker access - not that that matters in the least because open carry isn't legal in Oklahoma.

Still in any truly free society whether one does or doesn't should be left up to the individual and not the state.
 
My biggest problem with siding with pro-gun politicians is they are usually just using that as a bait tactic for the middle of the road people like myself and when I look at their other positions I find them offensive. I am not dumb enough to vote for someone just because they say they are pro-gun. I look at their entire platform. If they are pro-gun but anti-choice, anti-equal rights, pro-big business, pro-outsourcing, etc I am still not going to vote for them. I would love to find some local politicians that say they are pro-gun and actually mean it along with not being nazis either.
 
Once We Get The Kinkster In Office...

I'll put a bug in his ear. Friedman's our best shot..and now a realistic one. An Independent offers a better chance for Open Carry here...no party to screw with...and an easier chance of a viable bill.
 
Well is there anything in Texas Law that you would like to see changed.

BTW Does a home owner in Texas have complete immunity from civil suits when using a weapon in defense of property and home.
 
BTW Does a home owner in Texas have complete immunity from civil suits when using a weapon in defense of property and home.
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As far as I understand things - NO.
 
BTW Does a home owner in Texas have complete immunity from civil suits when using a weapon in defense of property and home.
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Not yet. But I understand there is an effort to write immunity into the
"Castle Doctrine" bill, which is supposedly on the docket for the next
Texas Leg.

El Tejon dg, during Reconstruction carrying a pistol was prohibited as the newly freed slaves were carrying pistols and making life hard for the racist thugs attempting to keep them under their pointy elf boot heel.
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And that is the problem with a lot of the antiquated laws in Texas. They
were forcibly installed by the Northern Reconstructionists, then instituted into the Texas Constitution when Texas rejoined the Union.
And laws governing amending the Texas Constitution are so strictly written
it is difficult to get anything done.
Getting a "Shall Issue" concealed-carry law passed was almost impossible.
But we finally did, and maybe someday we can get an "open-carry" law
passed, too.
If I thought it would help, I'd vote for Kinky, too. :what:

Walter
 
Thanks for the link to TXCDL!

We're not in TX yet, but will be as soon as this house sells. I've contacted a couple of TX state organizations & Jim Pruett to see if there is any pending legislation to impletment OC - didn't get any positive responses. Hopefully TCDL can & will get OC legalized.

Since moving from CA to AZ, my wife & I have come to appreciate having the choice between CC & OC. Niether of us have OC'd yet, but it's nice having the choice. And, IMO, it's even better because you can OC (here) without having to ask the state's permission.
 
I'd like open carry... would like it if TX relaxed knife laws, as well. I can carry a .50AE DEagle (assuming I can make it concealed) but I can't carry a spear, or a dagger, or a cavalry saber. I can tote a rifle around, no license needed. Weapons laws are really strange.
 
Geronimo45,

What are the knife laws there? Here in Oregon I routinely carry my Pro-Tech Godfather fully auto knife. I always have a knife on me and I keep my hand on it at all times while walking the city streets at night.
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I'm pro open carry for the "propaganda" it provides. Our culture is being morphed and fashioned to lead people to think that guns are uncommon and only "that type" uses firearms.

I'd like to see the sheeple more desensitized to the very sight of the scary guns.
 
It's starting to get that way... don't know about knives in a car. Long guns are okay, and handguns seem to be okay as long as they're hidden and you're travelling someplace.
 
That knife is illegal in TX. Not only because it has a double sided blade, therefore making it a "dagger". But also it would be considered a switch blade.
 
The Honorable Suzanne Gratia Hupp tried to get a bill passed in Texas a number of years ago that would have allowed open or concealed carry a la Vermont (and now Alaska) sans permit etc. Alas, the "gun lobby", with the exception of GOA and a few others left her high and dry.

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I was watching the antics in Austin with great interest in 1995. There was a group (GOA-TX?) pushing for Vermont carry or none at all. The votes simply weren't there for Vermont carry.

We had to take a bill with a bunch of warts to clear the legislature. TSRA has been removing a few warts every session. I expect they'll remove a few more warts this session.
 
The things I'd like to see are:
1. Civil indemnity if your are no billed or found not guilty criminally.
2. "During the commision of a crime" added to the illegal weapons statute.
3. Open carry decriminalized with CHL. (Ultimately I'd prefer AK or VT but let's take this one bite at a time.)
4. CHL fees GREATLY reduced. ~$100 for the class and $140 for the app. is too steep. Unless it's a lifetime permit and delivered, via courier, to your house, by a scantily clad Civil Service worker, of your choice, in 24 hours.
5. "Printing" decriminalized with CHL. (If I can't have #3)
6. Carry in public places broadened. ie: Amusment Parks, Schools, Sports Events and "Places that derive more than %51 revenue from alcohol sales" are decriminalized with CHL.

Oh yeah and all Texas State Constitutional Ammendments expire 5 years from passage. No revote for extension. If you want it back, start over, from the beginning.

My 2 cents, it's worth exactly what you paid for it. You did, however, ask dragongoddess. :p
 
Every man, woman, and responsible child has a natural, fundamental, and inalienable human, individual, civil, and Constitutional right to obtain, own, and carry, openly or concealed, any weapon -- handgun, shotgun, rifle, machinegun, anything -- any time, anywhere, without asking anyone's permission.
-- L. Neil Smith, The Atlanta Declaration

This is the principled stance. Regardless of legality, tacticool reasoning, or personal preference. The very fact that we do not have adequate, Constitutional, or even logical ideas about personal arms should be our first hurdle, not our last.

Some folks will be more comfortable carrying concealed for the "keep 'em guessing" aspect. Others actually practice good situational awareness and prefer the comfort of open carry. I'm in the latter position there.

Either way, the situation needs to change. Not just here in Texas, but in most other States as well. Recent events should be more than ample proof that disarming and limiting the lawful individuals RKBA only gets more innocent people killed. This needs to change...
 
Don't get me started on Texas knife laws.

I can go to freakin' Wal Mart and take literally dozens of knives off the shelf which are completely and tottally illegal, yet there they are for sale.

My personal carry knives, I choose not to skirt the issue and stick with things which are clearly legal, but a lot of knives I own like my Buck General and my Schrade fixed blade and Perrin Bowie (gasp, it's a Bowie!) are clearly illegal by the letter of the law. Yet I had no problem purchasing any of them legally. I generally keep these at home or in a tool box though, I don't believe in tempting fate.

And yet I see Bowie knives,knives over 5.5", and other illegal knives for sale all the time and carried all the time, and have carried and purchased such knives right in front of law enforcement.

The knife laws in Texas are written in such a way that an officer can use them as an excuse to arrest somebody, and nothing more. They're horribly subjective and full of loose and antiquated language, and they are not enforced with any sort of consistency. Most officers don't even know them. Ask five peace officers if a balisong is legal, you'll get mixed responses.
 
I could go for open carry in Texas. but as much trouble as we had getting the CCW law passed, Open is not ging to be easy. Someone previous had stated that if Florida got it passed maybe Texas could follow.
It would be nice and it wold make dressing a lot easier.
 
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