Example: you're at the Walmart/7-11/Taco Bell/etc., your firearm prints, someone sees it and freaks out and calls the police (most likely unbeknownst to you) and says you have a gun and there's going to be a robbery, gives them your description, next thing you know a bunch of police show up, guns drawn, etc., etc.
Please ask your instructor to cite ONE example of this since CHL's were implemented in Texas..... I'd like to see one. Certainly might be, but I've never seen anything remotely like that.
Monkeys might land UFO's in my back yard too, but I don't spend a lot of time worrying about it.
What your instructor is doing, quite honestly, is propagating the "sheeple" mentality himself rather than stopping it.
Most "sheeple", when they see a gun in a holster, think "cop" not "robbery". "Sheeple" only think badguy when the gun is stuck in the pants. That's what TV has done for it.
Good guys use holsters, bad guys stick it in the pants.
The story you tell, cops and black helicopters surrounding a CHL who is "printing" is often repeated, but never backed up with any examples.
Something as vague as this is probably best discussed with a lawyer, and preferably not after being hassled by a police officer who decides for himself it is against the law.
What exactly do you find vague about the wording of Texas law?
because the case law I may be incorrectly remembering may or may not have involved someone using "printing" to intimidate another.
Nonsense. Cite it please. If you threaten someone with a gun that's not the same thing as "printing". Totally different concept. This is a discussion about accidentally displaying your firearm when you bend over in Winn Dixie to get Doritos from the bottom shelf, not threatening an ex wife with a gun under a shirt.
Might not be illegal in the truest sense of the word but it might very well cause unwanted problems. And it is very easy to avoid
And again, show where it's actually ever happened. And what the heck does "might not be illegal in the truest sense of the word" mean? It's either legal, or it's illegal.
Accidentally displaying a handgun, carried with a CHL, with no intent to scare anyone, is simply not a crime in Texas. Cite examples where it's caused a problem.
Seriously, we are not criminals, why do you insist we walk around completely paranoid because we are doing a legal thing?
I don't understand it.
Twice I've accidentally displayed a holstered handgun myself. Once in a 7-11 like place, think it was Allsups, can't remember. Cop saw me. Know what he did? He didnt' shoot me, he didn't arrest me, he simply said very calmly "your revolver grip is showing". "Thank you officer, sorry about that". "Might try a longer shirt, have a good one".....
Yep. It's a frightening world out there..... Maybe we shouldn't carry them at all, just in case.
Get a good holster, conceal it well, practice carrying in your home to get a feel for how the holster affects your movements, and do your best not to print
Absolutely the best advice in the thread.