Car Carry - Transition

[Divided Attention]

I just wear my holster all day long, just put my side arm in the lock box. No rules against the holster

[WildBill]

I just wear my holster all day long, just put my side arm in the lock box. No rules against the holster

No laws or rules against a holster, but if discovered, a reason for a "random search" for a weapon.

[Dreamliner]

That's interesting, because there's no rule about carrying the slide, barrel and recoil spring either. Just keep the frame in car. :)

[Ftak]

Your best defense as far as keeping a gun in your car is to just not tell anyone you have it or that it's there. Put it under your floor mat with the seat pulled a bit forward & no one will know not even when there feet are operation the pedals if you have the right size gun & vehicle I guess. The best defense is keeping it a secret

[Ftak]

As for a holster I would simply keep it in the holster you carry day to day. Don Hume leather is my favorite clipped to my belt in the waist which protects the trigger very well

[Ftak]

You can carry a weapon legally consealed in your car if you are lawfully able to own one in Texas. Gov Perry rewrote the language in what has always been known as traveling. There has always been the a urban legend that if your traveling such a distance for such an amount of time like over night you could legally carry one in your car & that was probably true. The state rewrote or re defined the traveling clause from to getting in your car & leaving your residence is considered traveling. There are still counties that don't agree with that law or interpret it in there own way & give you a hard time. I guess all common sense laws have there side effects & we just have to deal with em

[carlson1]

. . .There are still counties that don't agree with that law or interpret it in there own way & give you a hard time. I guess all common sense laws have there side effects & we just have to deal with em

Can you tell us what counties or maybe enlighten us on how you know that there are "certain Counties" that interpret the law in their own way?

[AEA]

Ftak appears to have a source of knowledge that the rest of us are unaware of. My advice is to ignore it completely.

[stroo]

Travelling used to be a justification for carrying a gun in your car. However the definition of travelling was not very clear and court decisions varied all over the place depending on the court and the parties. That is one of the reasons I originally got my CHL.

Charles and the TSRA have done a great job in the last few years of getting the Legislature to change the laws so that travelling is no longer an issue.

[xb12s]

I found that when going to the kids' school to pick them up I can wedge my IWB holster between seat and console and cover with a hat. I also ordered some acorn velcro holsters. These are actually meant to mount on the wall of a safe to store pistols. I figure I could mount loop side velcro just about anywhere in the car (under the steering wheel, next to the console, on the front of the driver's seat etc. I'll post back and let you know how that works out. They appear to be a one-size-fits-all kind of deal, so that may end up being a problem in the end (front sights catching on the holster perhaps). I also looked at the gumcreek custom holsters for mounting under the steering wheel. This system looks pretty decent, but I was looking for something cheaper and simpler possibly.

For clarification, my pistol will be in my waistband the vast majority of the time. The exceptions to that would only be when parked at places that I can't carry (work, school, 30.06 type places). From there I'd make a decision about whether I felt like it was risky to leave the pistol "out" but concealed or in a gun vault type safe. I ordered a Nano Gunvault NV200 with cable lock.

I'll report back on what I end up liking and using most.

[jerrybob]

I have a lock box cable mounted to the seat frame for when I have to leave a weapon in my vehicle. It won't stop a determined thief with the tools to breach it, but the garden variety window smasher wouldn't get into it. When I'm driving I like to lay it inside the center console. I can retrieve it from there as quickly as I could from a holster while I'm belted in. If I'm in a questionable area I'll leave the lid to the console open for easier access. If I'm in a really dangerous part of the city I'll take it out and hold it on my lap with one hand. If I happen to get pulled over while doing that I can easily return it to the console without attracting any undue attention from the LEO in the process.

[reverendxlt]

Right after the MPA was passed, there was some static, particularly from Harris County and Travis county about how they would continue to enforce whatever it was they were enforcing at the time... haven't heard anything of it though, and wouldn't bother myself with it either.

[kewlteacher]

For the ease of removal, I like the paddle holsters. that way I can remove the entire rig without having a gun in my truck without a holster. That would be just asking for problems.

This is what i do. works great and fits in the console.

[grumble]

I use this in my Jeep:




It actually mounts between the seat and the floorboard. You want to steal the box, you have to take the seat out.

It's made by Tuffy - their reputation is pretty good.

Mind you, if a thief wants it, or wants IN it, they'll do it.

[RoyGBiv]

Nano vault. $20 at Academy or at Home Depot online.. $26 at amazon.
Several sizes available at different prices.
I loop the cable around the frame of the seat and stow the box under the seat or under the mat (I have an oversized mat and it actually works just fine and doesn't interfere with driving or getting in/out of the car.



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