Open carry Texas

[mbailey]

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

Agreed,  Id out PA up against any other state when it comes to our gun laws.

[WWhiskey]

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

The second amendment isn't about hunting!

[guncrasher]

The second amendment isn't about hunting!

there should be a requirement that if you want to have rights, you should know what your rights are 


semp

[Thruster]

In a state where it's 80+ degrees half the year it's a blessing. Seems like the real winners are the concealed carry folks who don't want to worry about printing or an occasional flash of steel. Call it "discrete carry". Besides, reducing the number of peaceful activities that are illegal is a commendable effort in my book. The fewer encounters a civilian has with law enforcement the better.

[Mitchell]

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.

I've heard this reasoning before, you assume that if one guy with a gun sees another guy with a gun they will each think the other is a bad guy.
 Has it ever actually happened, that one bad guy caused multiple people to draw their weapons and then everyone shots each other to bits?

[PR3D4TOR]

See Rule #14

[ebfd11]

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

semp

When i was repoing cars I had 3 I kept on my person, 1 on my hip and 2 concealed, I walked into banks..resturaunts...even the local PD and no one said a thing to me... The only time I got yelled at is when I went into the court room for some personal business. I left my regular side arm with the bailiff, then set off the metal detector because of my 2 that were concealed.

If done right and done legally there will be no problems what so ever. Find out what your local laws are and do it responsibly.

LAwnDart

[Aspen]

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.

Exactly what I was saying.  Its easy to look at the headlines and a quick look at the stats and get the wrong impression.  Sweden grabs headlines for being one of the worlds biggest arms exporters because per capita they are usually at or near the top.  Take out the "per capita" part and its a different story.

[FX1]

For people handing large amounts of cash open carry would be the way to go. I really don't think its going to be a big deal at all. Especially out side the larger cities.. We all have weapons and seeing a revolver on someone hip isn't going to make people run in the other direction..

I live in Austin for 40 years and never really have locked my door or had any robberies. Really safe place if you ask me.. Also i have never heard a gun shot inside the city and spend a lot of time out side working on projects or on the deck. We also live in a upper middle class area but that wasn't the case during my 20's.

[jimson]

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

semp

You will see that here in AZ, where open carry has always been allowed. Not so much now, because concealed carry is now allowed without permit.

A couple years ago I stood in the teller line next to someone with a holstered pistol.

When you cross into AZ, they stop you at the border and check you for guns, and if you don't have one, they lend you one.

[FLOOB]

The second amendment isn't about hunting!

No toejam but hunting with a firearm is legal in texas but carrying one isn't.

[Hajo]

I thought this post was about open containers of alcohol.....if so I'm for it!

[PR3D4TOR]

No toejam but hunting with a firearm is legal in texas but carrying one isn't.

Long guns are legal to carry openly.

[guncrasher]

You will see that here in AZ, where open carry has always been allowed. Not so much now, because concealed carry is now allowed without permit.

A couple years ago I stood in the teller line next to someone with a holstered pistol.

When you cross into AZ, they stop you at the border and check you for guns, and if you don't have one, they lend you one.

not talking about a gun in your holster.  talking about walking into a bank with a rifle in your hands the way some open carry do.


And btw I live next to Arizona been there many times.   nobody is at the border, they don't give you guns,  and I have yet to see one carrying one.  But go ahead dream on .



semp

[Widewing]

There are times for open carry, and times for concealed carry. One needs the good judgment to know when and where. Hiking in the mountains? Open carry. Dinner in a nice restaurant? Concealed carry. This isn't rocket science, just common sense.