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Elza wrote:

ScottDLS wrote:

C-dub wrote:

redlin67 wrote:I know a lot of you guys and gals are not proponents of "open carry",

That's not entirely true. Many of us here are in favor of OC. What many of us aren't in favor of is having more businesses put up 30.06 signs. What we are worried about is the high probability that if OC were to become law in Texas that it would be lumped in with the CHL laws and the same sign that prohibits CC would also prohibit OC. As it stands, there are many ignorant business owners and they are not posting 30.06 signs, but what they don't see isn't going to hurt us. However, if they really don't want guns in their place of business, the first time someone walks in OCing and they call the police they will be informed of the proper way to prohibit law abiding people from carrying a gun in their store. We can currently carry in more places than probably any other state. In order to get OC passed that could change or more places would figure out how to keep us out. It's a risk many of us aren't willing to take.

I'm not as worried about this scenario as a lot of you. Given how few business can get the 30.06 right under the current law, I doubt many would be able/willing to put up the full-size sign to stop open carry. Most likely a lot of OC'ers would get verbal (that's right, I said it.....) notice under 30.06, then they'd stop doing it.

The easiest way to effect (licensed) open carry would be to simply strike 46.035(a). Maybe also do a little cleanup in GC 411 to remove the "concealed" references.

For the moment this is true. But think what will happen when ‘Susie soccer mom’ pees her pants at the sight of a gun. They will jump on the store manager. The manager doesn’t want the hassle so proper signage starts appearing.

It’s fine to say that ‘we’ll take our business elsewhere’. But it doesn’t take a genius to realize that CHL holders comprise around 2% of the population. The managers/owners aren’t going to be too worried about 2%.