At least one young lady in my church, a CHL has the same "style" thing. Not going to dress baggy, and some elderly ladies purse carry at my church, which IMHO is more dangerous since it is more risky to purse carry to stop a purse snatcher, than to belt carry openly with maybe an unbuttoned top shirt which might partly cover it, and stop one who already has or is struggling over the purse, The trained young stylish lady can carry now.Tracker wrote:no. you'll just be allowed to open carry or conceal carry with a permit. see the edit I made to my first response.slm266 wrote:I was making sure that there wasnt some amendment that forced you to specifically have a texas CHL (rather than an out of state permit) in order to open carry here under the new law.Tracker wrote:While it is currently illegal to open carry in Texas any Texan CHL holder can go to Oklahoma and legally open carry right now. Texas open carry law will be no different.
Here's example of why I'm in favor of open carry: My 25 year old daughter has her CHL and she refuses to carry inside the waste band (IWB) so she carries in a separate sipped pouch in her purse. I paid for her to have hundreds of hours with a self defense firearms instructor. Police women go to this instructor to supplement their training. IOW may daughter is well trained. But she's still a girl who wants cute cloths so she won't buy pants two sizes too big. With open carry she intends to carry in an OWB and pull a shirt over the gun. She's not going to buy a baggy shirt.
Myself, I'll still carry the way I'm used to most of the time, certainly when out shopping or eating out with the family. Because it's more discreet, normally, I carry in a cell phone holster but would rather carry OWB my larger Sig and pull a shirt over it. Texas doesn't have a no printing law but I've talked to police Sargent (who was also a very pro CHL advocate and the departments shooting instructor) at a citizen's police academy about this. When I put the gun inside my front pocket it printed enough that this officer said he would have to charge for that amount of printing. What is too obvious that a person has a gun is too subjective in the eyes of an officer as far as I'm concerned. OC eliminates that subjectivity.
I'll still carry concealed, except for doing yard work, as I always have done for years, but when I step into the street to leaf blow, or go across the street to talk to a neighbor in their front yard, (they make me home made bread and jelly and wave me across when they see me doing yard work) I don't have to put a shirt back on.