Not a lawyer here, but while tools or bats may often be carried around quite legally, the instant they are used to whup someone up side of the head they may be viewed as "a club" - and the beginning of "Problem #2".
Unfortunately, there is no clear-cut definition of "traveling" in penal code. The way it was explained to us in '95 instructor skul was that with 254 counties in Tejas, there might well be at least 254 interpretations, which often keeps lawyers quite occupied.
