Open carry used to be a gun rack in your truck filled with rifles.
Sorry to throw cold water on this fire, but if Wendy somehow gets elected, I’m not exactly confident that this portion of her platform will survive.
Open carry is ok for those who want it.
I prefer to conceal and carry, because I wear dresses and skirts, and there are many of those garments which are not enhanced by a holstered guy.
I say we should have the choice to carry either way.
The greatest obstacle to TX open carry has been “Republicans” David Dewhurst (yes, him) and Joe Straus.
When Texas joined the Union, they signed on to the 2A being the Supreme Law of the Land, the laws of any State to the contrary notwithstanding.
It’s fine if they want to double down in the Texas Constitution with the protection, but the “infringement” on how you may bear your armaments is unConstitutional on it’s face.
All those years Chism was carrying openly was illegal!?
Oh hell yea!
Let the rapist, muggers, robbers, carjackers see what the obstacle is before them.....perhaps they'll think their life is worth more than thirty bucks.
Couldn’t agree more, marktwain.
Texas is destined to be a very big part of the salvation of America. Open carry of sidearms is a good first step.
All you knuckleheads downthread with your usual moronic parroting of the “tactical risks” of open carry need to understand what this is about. This is not an issue of strapping on yore sixgun and swaggering into the local saloon. This is about a CHL holder bending down to pick up a can of peas at the local grocery store in Austin, Houston, Dallas (or some smaller pocket of Demorat control) and having some bedwetting hoplophobe run to the next aisle and call 911 to report a “gun carrying maniac about to kill us all”.
The way the law stands, that CHL holder, if he is lucky enough not to be riddled with gunfire by the responding JBTs, will almost certainly lose his CHL. He might even wind up doing hard time for it. The point to open carry in Texas is so a concealed firearm accidentally displayed doesn’t ruin a CHL holder’s life.
You may now resume your chest pounding proclamations of “I’d never carry right out in the open cause that might let some varmint get the drop on me”.
Bull Sh!t. Constitutional Carry or War.....