Open carry Texas

[FX1]

So it looks like we will be able to pack a hog leg very soon in our great state. Personally I will never open carry but it looks like their are a fair amount of people in the state that want the right to do so. Headed to sti tomorrow for a sit down with my gun smith and build a open carry "bling gun" for my safe. Just for the fun of it.

He also has a sgl 31 of mine to chrome plate for a blind ranch gun to break out for my Yankee friends. Their a great group of guys and always have a blast posting pics of them down in Texas shooting ak's and other toys they can't have. 

[Oldman731]

So it looks like we will be able to pack a hog leg very soon in our great state. Personally I will never open carry

Thank you.  Otherwise I would fear for your safety.

Please don't take this the wrong way, but I think anyone who wants to open carry is an idiot.  It's an open invitation to any wandering nut, which says: "Go ahead, see if you can get it away from me while I'm not looking."

I know, I know, the chicks really dig it....and there are SO MANY other good uses for it...

- oldman (walking away, shaking his head)

[dentin]

Naw..CCW is the only way to "carry"..has the potential to keep bad guys guessing. 

[FX1]

Its silly to me but I am firearms so much its not a big deal. We already have guns in our trucks and that's all I need or want. I thinks its more geared to the newer firearm buyers so they have a reason to walk around with their new pistol. We do have a sidearm at a couple ranches down south near the boarder but that a ranch rule. They have foot traffic all the time and want to make sure the clients can fight back if needed. 

[Motherland]

Is the only 'Yankee' state Massachusetts? We have more permissive gun laws in Pennsylvania (and plenty of other northeastern states) than anywhere else in the country, including Texas for sure.

No one open carries in Pennsylvania even though it's legal and has always been legal because it's stupid
then again all you have to do to get a CC permit here is ask for it

[JimmyD3]

Its never stupid to be able to carry a weapon, however, when ever and where you want, assuming of course you are a sane law abiding citizen.

[guncrasher]

Its never stupid to be able to carry a weapon, however, when ever and where you want, assuming of course you are a sane law abiding citizen.

well I double dare you to open carry a gun into a bank .

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[FBKampfer]

Its never stupid to be able to carry a weapon, however, when ever and where you want, assuming of course you are a sane law abiding citizen.

It absolutely is. Concerts, public gatherings, any situation in which one gunman sparking a free for all simply because nobody can tell which love muffin firing wildly is the real bad guy, and which ones are just law abiding citizens exercising their inalienable, American and utterly stupid right to carry a firearm on their person at all times.

Giving everybody a gun may be the best way to help those that would actually want to kill civilians; one shooter will start off a chain reaction, and result in exponentially greater casualties.


Don't get me wrong, I support the 2nd, but there's a point where it stops being reasonable, a point where it stops being smarter, and safe.

[Aspen]

We have open carry here in CO.  I might see one or two folks a year carrying in town unless it's at a gun show.  I see a lot more that are carrying concealed but don't realize or don't care that they are imprinting.  I hang out in parts of WY where lots of folks carry open and its just no big deal.  When it comes to more vs less freedom, I'll take more about every time.  It comes with risks and responsibilities and thats ok with me.  I don't carry all the time and never open carry because in a bad situation I would rather the bad guy have as little information as possible. 

[FLOOB]

Open carry is illegal in texas? I thought that concealed carry was potentially naughty and that's why you needed a special permit as opposed to open carry. So basically you can't carry a firearm around on your person at all without some kind of special beauracratic ink and paper in texas?

If open carry is illegal in texas, how is hunting legal in texas? Its all starting to taste very stupid and contradictory.

[Zimme83]

I would say that it would be better for everyone if no one but police carried weapons. How many legal guns are involved in domestic violence for example? But u do as u want i dont really bother. I just prefer the Swedish way to handle firearms. I feel safer if i know that no one in my neighbourhood is carrying weapons except for hunting.

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It absolutely is. Concerts, public gatherings, any situation in which one gunman sparking a free for all simply because nobody can tell which love muffin firing wildly is the real bad guy, and which ones are just law abiding citizens exercising their inalienable, American and utterly stupid right to carry a firearm on their person at all times.

Giving everybody a gun may be the best way to help those that would actually want to kill civilians; one shooter will start off a chain reaction, and result in exponentially greater casualties.


Don't get me wrong, I support the 2nd, but there's a point where it stops being reasonable, a point where it stops being smarter, and safe.

completely disagree

criminals feed off the weak.....


there would be far less criminals if everyone was armed and willing to stand up to evil man.

[Aspen]

In a huge part of America, its pretty uncommon to find folks who don't feel safe living their normal life.  Its a big place with lots of people and bad stuff can happen anywhere, but if you take out the big urban areas the statistics look totally different.  We have places where the front door rarely gets locked and the keys are usually in the ignition with the car in the driveway.

Odds of getting shot and killed by someone with a gun in the U.S. are about 3 per 100,000.  Odds of getting raped in Sweden are about 63 per 100,000 (way higher than most developed countries).   I'm guessing that there's more to it and that your average Swedish woman doesn't leave the house overly concerned about her safety.

[Zimme83]

Comparing rape stastistic between countries is completley irrelvant since its meassured and defined different. Sweden havea very wide definition of rape and that means that more cases are concidered as rapes. Stastistically the most dangerous man for a woman is the one she lives (or lived) with.

[guncrasher]

completely disagree

criminals feed off the weak.....


there would be far less criminals if everyone was armed and willing to stand up to evil man.

question is not armed and willing but more like armed and trained otherwise it's a blood bath as everybody will be shooting at anybody with a gun.


semp