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Photoman wrote:

KBCraig wrote:OC on someone else's property with permission isn't legal, but it's also not wrong.

Can someone point me to the applicable law for this?

Start at the top of PC 46.02, where it outlaws carrying a handgun on or about your person (no matter whether loaded or not, open or concealed). Then, drop down to 46.15, "Non-applicability", to find the exceptions to that ban. There is a long list, but "with permission" isn't one of them.

A CHL holder can only openly carry under the same conditions that a non-licensee could, such as sporting uses, hunting, etc. (Under those circumstances, a non-licensee can legally carry concealed.) A CHL openly carrying on someone else's property, even with permission, is guilty of PC 46.035, Unlawful Carrying of Handgun by Licensee, unless they meet one of the exceptions.

Target1911 wrote:Then why is it that when you walk into MOST gun stores, all employees are OCing?

Because no one has ever stopped them. That doesn't make it legal.

Remember: there's "illegal", and then there's "wrong". Sometimes they overlap; often they don't. OC on someone else's property with permission isn't legal, but it's also not wrong.

Target1911 wrote:My question is........what do I do with my pistol while I am at work WITHOUT causing my boss any legal problems?

Your boss only has a problem if he has actual possession, or "constructive possession" (meaning he knows where your pistol is and he could access it without restriction).

Even if he knows exactly where it is, a pistol in your locked saddlebags doesn't cause him any more legal issues than the guns for sale in Wal Mart. I guarantee you he knows where those guns are; he just doesn't have "constructive possession" of them, because they're locked away.