seamusTX wrote:You are correct about Texas law. There is no general restriction on carrying long guns, loaded or unloaded, concealed or not.
Long guns are prohibited in the "places weapons prohibited" in PC §46.03.
Then there's a federal law that prohibits firearms on school grounds, including parking lots, and within 1,000 feet of a school, unless unloaded in a locked case or rack. (This law contains an exception for CHLs.)
The federal law is rarely prosecuted. To the best of my knowledge, it has never been used against someone who is merely driving past a school. It would most likely be overturned by the Supreme Court, as a previous version of the same law was.
Jim
Rergarding prosecution under this law, I believe this is one of the laws they generally use to enhance sentencing after conviction (e.g. - BG selling drugs from his car outside the school & had a loaded rifle in the car=2 charges, one for drug violation & one for firearms violation). As far as I know, they don't stop you to see if your long gun is loaded (although I can just imagine some of the responses they'd get to that question...
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