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I actually got pulled over on Wednesday last week, on my way to work, by a Fort Worth motorcycle officer for speeding (51 in a 35) down the downhill westbound side of the White Settlement Rd bridge over the railroad tracks. I didn’t even think about it for a minute, and just automatically handed over both TDL & LTC. The officer asked me if I was carrying. I answered in the affirmative. He asked where. I said left hip OWB. He said to just try and keep my hands where he could see them and we’d be fine. I said Roger that. He came back to my window with a warning (even though he had me dead to rights on LiDAR), suggested I be more careful watching my speed through there, and wished me a great day. I thanked him for making it only a warning, and we went our separate ways. Total elapsed time: not more than about 3 minutes, no muss, no fuss.

Earlier this week, I fingerprinted a Dallas County prosecutor for his LTC, and we talked for a minute about LTC versus Constitutional Carry. He told me that he’s seeing a fair number of prosecutions in Dallas county of people carrying without a license, and for dumb reasons—like they didn’t know the law still requires use of a holster, and the accused had stuffed an upholstered pistol in the front of their pants. I got the sense from the conversation that at least some of them were on a path to becoming prohibited persons anyway, or that these were tack-on charges.

Whichever it was, it seems like there are a lot of people who don’t know what is/isn’t permitted under "permitless" carry…let alone what is/isn’t allowed under LTC.