I can't speak for any other Bexar County tax offices, but if the other "branch" offices are like the one on Bandera (mentioned in ELB's post), it's in an almost-100% commercial strip mall with no other governmental offices in sight. I've only used that particular branch once (when we first moved here in 2006 to get our vehicle plates), and there was a guard but no metal detector. I didn't look for a 30.06 sign (having no idea at that point what one was, being a fresh-off-the-truck ex-Kalifornian), so there could have been one there, not sure. Nowadays, I check every place I walk into, looking for 30.06s - still haven't seen one, so I guess I'm going to the right places so far!
If I find myself in that area, I'll stop in to the office on Bandera and have a look around for a 30.06 and/or metal detector and/or guard to ask. Given a situation where CHL is allowed but there's a metal detector, I think Jim has the advice I would follow:
seamusTX wrote:What I would do is tell the person operating the metal detector that I had a handgun and a license, and ask them to use the hand scanner.
I would not unholster. If they wouldn't go along with me, I would leave and persue the matter with management by phone.
JT