ScottDLS wrote:To follow up on what I wrote above...eventually someone is going to have to be the proverbial "test case". Let's take the Bell County Expo center as an example.
- I buy a ticket and I walk up with my CC handgun, concealed & loaded, say in my waistband at 6 o'clock.
- Do they wand people going in? If they alert do they make you unload and zip tie? Who? Event staff?
- OK I refuse, citing my LTC and begin to walk in.
Is it a Bell County Deputy or local LEO enforcing the policy? He/she arrests me? For what? Not 30.05, 30.06, or 30.07...they specifically don't apply. Do they block my path to enter? Detain me? On what grounds?
Does event staff physically restrain me from entering? In the presence of a LEO? Is that assault? Do I have a civil cause of action against the event for preventing my lawful entry to publicly owned property?
Yeah exactly their claim of a private event private rules does not apply to LTC as per 30.06(e) It is an exception to the application of this section that the property on which the license holder carries a concealed handgun is owned or leased by a governmental entity and is not a premises or other place on which the license holder is prohibited from carrying the handgun under Section 46.03 or 46.035.
I'm going to email them about this and see their response.