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karder wrote:

flb_78 wrote:Here in Kentucky, it's a Concealed Carry Deadly Weapons License.

The term includes items such as handguns and other firearms, knives (other than ordinary pocket and hunting knives), police batons, clubs, blackjacks, slapjacks, nunchaku karate sticks, shurikens or death stars, and artificial knuckles made from hard materials. For the actual language of the law, see KRS 500.080.

Death stars?!?! I thought Luke Skywalker blew that thing up. If they make that in a conceal carry size I'm in!

G.A. Heath wrote:If your read the statute, 46.15(b)(6), you will see that it basically says 46.02 does not apply IF you have your CHL and a concealed handgun of the same category as your license. In other words 46.02 does apply if you do not have your license, handgun, or both. Now to be honest I don't plan to be a test case.

This has come up before in another thread, but the gist of it that I got from people more knowledgeable than I is that for some reason it only doesn't apply to your gun(s), nothing else.

I'd really like to see Mr. Cotton's opinion on whether it would be worth trying to get this passed. Seems like it'd be pretty easy to sneak in somewhere.

"You wanna let the guys who already carry guns carry a collapsible stick or a big knife? Sure, why not, they already have guns..."

I know some people think there's a loophole where carrying a gun with a valid CHL negates all of section 46 of the penal code. From the discussion on that topic, I've decided that I don't want to be the one to test it.

However, I'm curious how hard it would be to get a sentence like, "This section doesn't apply to anyone with a valid CHL (as long as the weapon is concealed - could be added if need be)," stuck to the end of section 46? I mean, we can carry 5 concealed handguns (or more) on us, but not a concealed Bowie knife? That's just wrong in the first place, since this is Texas, but it's also kinda silly.

Would anyone at the capitol want to bother with this in the upcoming legislative session? Would trying to add it have any opposition, since it makes so much sense? Am I just dreaming? Pros and cons, and Mr. Cotton for a reality check, discuss!