oljames3 wrote:earlwb wrote:I see it now and again, mostly from establishments I do not visit. But they post a 30.06 sign notice but not a 30.07 notice. So that would basically mean they allow open carry but not concealed carry. I would have thought that it made more sense to post a 30.07 sign but not a 30.06 sign to allow concealed carry but no open carry. I have visited places that had only the 30.07 sign posted. Anyway I was just trying to understand the logic of it.
I cannot read minds, so I would have to ask the person in charge what is allowed or not allowed. I am not so inclined. Rather, I choose to avoid businesses that post 30.06. In the case of a business having only 30.06 posted, I would expect to receive effective notice by one of the two other methods prescribe in statute should I enter the property carrying my handgun openly.
The salient point, I feel, is to remember that NOT posting 30.06 or 30.07 does NOT mean that concealed or open carry respectively is allowed on a property. The Texas Penal Code Sections 30.06 and 30.07 describe notice by "oral or written communication."
http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/D ... /PE.30.htm
So, yes, a handgun license holder may enter a property on which a 30.07 is NOT posted while openly carrying a handgun. However, if you are given effective notice that entry on the property by a license holder with a concealed or openly carried handgun is forbidden, you will have to leave.
Which begs the question of how they would notify a concealed carrier that it is prohibited if they didn't know he/she was carrying. Maybe greet everyone walking in with a "no carry allowed"...
