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I have no intention of letting my LTC lapse.

My forecast is that little will change. Let's think about the projection that about 50% of LTC holders actually carry today. Those interested in permit less carry face all the same reasons that LTC have for not carrying. You have a small percentage of otherwise law abiding citizens who were already carrying without a permit and they may rest easy now. The BGs were also already carrying so the threats to law enforcement are probably not worse now either. In some of the lower income groups, you might have an uptick in people outside of their homes with guns. But Constitutional Carry didn't do anything to lower the costs of guns and I personally think that is a greater inhibitor to legal citizens than anything.

I've tried to follow other States as they introduced permit-less carry. I would have expected OK to be worse than Texas but I've seen almost nothing for our neighbors to the North that suggests Constitutional Carry was a bad idea for them.

It will be interesting to see which of the provisions in the bill survived the conference committees. At one point, it looked like the TABC was going to be out of the gun related sign business except for the 51%. I think that is win all by itself.