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by ELB
Mon Dec 21, 2015 7:47 pm
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: AG opinion on SB11
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Re: AG opinion on SB11

Footnote 7:
7 You do not ask whether institutions of higher education may establish policies regarding the manner in
which license holders carry on campus, such as holster requirements or policies regarding the presence of a chambered
round. See Campus Carry Policy Working Group Final Report, supra note 3 at 16 (preventing license holders from
carrying a gun with a chambered round, requiring license holders to carry in a holster that completely covers the
trigger and trigger guard area, and requiring sufficient tension on the handgun to retain it in the holster when subjected
to unexpected jostling). Analyzing such restrictions would involve whether S.B. 11 delegated to public institutions
of higher education the ability to restrict the manner in which license holders carry and whether state law restrictions
on the manner of carrying preempts the field of such regulations. See, e.g., S. Crushed Concrete, L.L.C. v. City of
Houston, 398 S.W.3d 676, 678 (Tex. 2013) (recognizing that state law may preempt local ordinances).
Am I wrong in thinking that the AG is signaling that Senator Birdwell should ask this question, and if he does, the AG's opinion will be "no they can't regulate how to carry" ?

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