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by Charles L. Cotton
Mon Mar 21, 2011 11:17 pm
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: Open Carry News Tidbit
Replies: 78
Views: 14258

Re: Open Carry News Tidbit

jecsd1 wrote:2A is now incorporated folks. Texas law prohibiting open carry is UNCONSTITUTIONAL. Doesn't that mean anything??
Heller has been incorporated and it says nothing about carrying; it's a "keeping" case, not a "bearing" case. We still have to get a carrying case to the Supreme Court. People have been reading too much into Heller since the day the opinion was handed down.

There is very good dicta in Heller, including the first ever Supreme Court recognition of a constitutional right to self-defense. This is as important as the Second Amendment part of the case because it makes it much easier and more likely to win a "carrying" case. But Heller did not establish "constitutional carry" as so many of our friends now claim.

Chas.
by Charles L. Cotton
Sun Mar 20, 2011 10:01 pm
Forum: Gun and/or Self-Defense Related Political Issues
Topic: Open Carry News Tidbit
Replies: 78
Views: 14258

Re: Open Carry News Tidbit

Maxwell wrote:My understanding was that only "intentional" flashing of my CCW was illegal and a wind blown shirt flashing the weapon was not brandishing. Am I wrong?
You are correct. Welcome to the TexasCHLforum.

Chas.

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