Petition to Allow Open Carry in Texas

[Heartland Patriot]

Personally feel open carry is silly and juvenile. Incidental exposure of your legal CC isn't a crime in Texas - threatening and brandishing is. Making a best effort to conceal and having it accidentally exposed may get a LEO sicced on you, but if legally licensed to carry it's not going anywhere. In any case, don't really care one way ot the other about public open carry in Texas.

"Silly and juvenile"...that's an interesting way to put it, considering your signature line.

[WinoVeritas]

No worse than yours, kind sir.

[Jumping Frog]

I'd like for open carry to be legal in Texas.

I don't think an online petition, signed by a bunch of out of state folks is going to mean much.

If you're interested in making it a priority, join TSRA and NRA and let them know you want them to work for it here in Texas.

I used to "semi open carry" in urban areas when I lived in Ohio all the time. By "semi open carry", I mean I carried IWB with the grip-only showing above the belt.

People rarely noticed -- like 2-3 times per year. It was not a big deal.

Now, I wear the same IWB holster, but I wear my shirt tucked in over it. All it does is slow down my draw.

[AEA]

Incidental exposure of your legal CC isn't a crime in Texas - threatening and brandishing is.

NO, it is NOT! There is no such thing as brandishing in Texas.

[WinoVeritas]

Incidental exposure of your legal CC isn't a crime in Texas - threatening and brandishing is.

NO, it is NOT! There is no such thing as brandishing in Texas.

Do you even know the meaning of brandishing?? Try it front of a Texas LEO and let's see what happens to you or your CHL.

[flb_78]

I like open carry. I do it everyday.

[WildBill]

Incidental exposure of your legal CC isn't a crime in Texas - threatening and brandishing is.

NO, it is NOT! There is no such thing as brandishing in Texas.

Do you even know the meaning of brandishing?? Try it front of a Texas LEO and let's see what happens to you or your CHL.

AEA knows the meaning of the word "brandishing". If you can quote the section of the Texas Code that lists "brandishing" as a crime, please do so.

[WinoVeritas]

In country, on private land and / or with land owners permission I carry open - also in back country state and federal park primative camp areas. There is no way I would not in Big Bend primative camp areas. Not in Panther Junction, HEB, Walmart or walking down a city street where it is illegal.

[74novaman]

Well, if someone feels something is "silly and juvenile" then I'm sold! By all means, no one should be allowed to open carry if one person thinks its silly.

[WildBill]

Well, if someone feels something is "silly and juvenile" then I'm sold! By all means, no one should be allowed to open carry if one person thinks its silly.

That is the silliest post you have ever made.

[flb_78]

In country, on private land and / or with land owners permission I carry open - also in back country state and federal park primative camp areas. There is no way I would not in Big Bend primative camp areas. Not in Panther Junction, HEB, Walmart or walking down a city street where it is illegal.

It's illegal to open carry in back country state and federal park primitive camp areas.

Please don't break the law.

[gringo pistolero]

I am pretty new at this but even if open carry was allowed I would conceal just my thing.

We're talking about firearms not guns.

[jmra]

Personally feel open carry is silly and juvenile. Incidental exposure of your legal CC isn't a crime in Texas - threatening and brandishing is. Making a best effort to conceal and having it accidentally exposed may get a LEO sicced on you, but if legally licensed to carry it's not going anywhere. In any case, don't really care one way ot the other about public open carry in Texas.

"Silly and juvenile"...that's an interesting way to put it, considering your signature line.

I consider winos signature line to be tantamount to character assassination of half the people on this forum so I give no credence whatsoever to anything he says.

[WinoVeritas]

Personally feel open carry is silly and juvenile. Incidental exposure of your legal CC isn't a crime in Texas - threatening and brandishing is. Making a best effort to conceal and having it accidentally exposed may get a LEO sicced on you, but if legally licensed to carry it's not going anywhere. In any case, don't really care one way ot the other about public open carry in Texas.

"Silly and juvenile"...that's an interesting way to put it, considering your signature line.

I consider winos signature line to be tantamount to character assassination of half the people on this forum so I give no credence whatsoever to anything he says.

Please give me a break on your feigned outrage of my sig. if i had a $0.05 for every derogatory comment or sigs made about liberals, lefties or democrats in this form I'd have more money than Donald Trump and Mitt Romney combined.

As for the parsing of "brandishing" vs. threatening, exposing, intimidating in CHL-16 starting in Penal Code 30.05 onward, I'm guessing our Lege either didn't know the meaning of brandishing or figured no one else would, so they used many words that could have been said in one.

[Jumping Frog]

In country, on private land and / or with land owners permission I carry open - also in back country state and federal park primitive camp areas. There is no way I would not in Big Bend primitive camp areas. Not in Panther Junction, HEB, Walmart or walking down a city street where it is illegal.

It's illegal to open carry in back country state and federal park primitive camp areas.

Please don't break the law.

So, do I understand this correctly? I am genuinely curious.

PC §46.15(b)(3) would make carrying a handgun legal if he was engaged in "lawful hunting, fishing, or other sporting activity on the immediate premises where the activity is conducted". I guess you are saying camping or hiking in the woods would not be considered an "other sporting activity"? I guess it would be legal if he is also carrying a fishing pole and license?

What "other sporting activities" would apply?