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C-dub wrote:Or is Texas really that much more property/business owner friendly than some of these other states?

If that was true we wouldn't have the parking lot law... and 30.06 would also apply to LEO if they don't have a warrant.

I don't like to think that Arizona and even Oklahoma are more gun friendly than Texas, but maybe it's true.

Charles L. Cotton wrote:So when discussing open-carry, understand that in terms of signage, TPC §30.06 must remain applicable only to concealed-carry, or it's a deal-breaker.

That's the way it reads already, AFAICT. A generic "NO GUNS" sign is sufficient to prohibit rifles, shotguns, unlicensed handgun carry by travelers, MPA in non-employer parking lots, commissioned security guards with handguns, and many other combinations of guns and people. The only gun exceptions I see in 30.05 are for concealed handguns carried by licensed people, and for handguns or other weapons carried by LEO.

Another suggestion I liked in a previous session was to keep the requirement to conceal on the books, but make the penalty for intentional failure a $10 fine. That keeps it illegal for the people who have a strong emotional attachment to infringing the right to keep and bear arms, but takes us a baby step closer to constitutional carry.