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by sjfcontrol
Tue Sep 28, 2010 10:50 am
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Customer Outs Himself
Replies: 121
Views: 16295

Re: Customer Outs Himself

Embalmo wrote:I'm using the phrase "Verbally show" to mean verbally indicating one's carry status as armed; to tell someone that there is a gun in your pocket. To raise ones shirt to reveal the gun shaped bulge in one's bicycle shorts would be to physically show.

I agree that it doesn't say anything in the book about telling someone in friendly conversation that you're armed (where others may hear you), but I do think that it's a little gray when you consider that bicycle pants and loose lips yield the same results; that you gotta' gun in your pants. And you've also, naturally, got to be careful in places where LEOs and shopkeepers may not get the concept of non-compliant signs.

Embalmo
Embalmo -- I think you are confusing yourself with your non-standard use of the English language. You simply CANNOT verbally (or orally) "show" something.

And as somebody else pointed out, that isn't what the law talks about anyway. The law says:
"Concealed handgun" means a handgun, the presence of which is not openly discernible to the ordinary observation of a reasonable person.
You "observe" stuff with your eyes, not your ears. The law does not say "...presence of which is not detectible by a reasonable person". That would include detection by any means.
by sjfcontrol
Tue Sep 28, 2010 8:31 am
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: Customer Outs Himself
Replies: 121
Views: 16295

Re: Customer Outs Himself

Embalmo wrote:
So it is legal to expose that you're carrying a gun?
He didn't "expose" it, he declared it. To expose something means to show it.

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