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Let’s see 150 guns confiscated from TP gangsters. Maybe your 1/3 had 3 each.........

Last time I took Texas CHL and unless the law has changed, it is a crime to take a firearm into a bar. Guess there were more than 56 ‘criminals’ at TP that day.

Been to a few damn rough joints, doubt there were 150 criminals there, but then again I don’t generally go to biker hangouts.

Anyone who imagines that most of those arrested won’t end up being convicted are dreaming.

Maybe your damn rough joints were smaller than the ones I went to. The firearms confiscated were taken from vehicles, saddlebags, off of individuals outside the bar. Gee whiz. As for 150 firearms, I remember when you could count that hanging in the back windows of pickups at the local High School.

If two thirds of the people arrested there had no criminal record, and there were a lot more people (no one specified who the firearms were taken from nor where the firearms were, except in a couple of instances) then that's 118 people who could legally have a firearm in their possession, just of the arrested. Add in miscellaneous unarrested but detained) people in the parking lot, and those who had more than one firearm with them, it wouldn't take much (in Texas, no less!) to count up to 150 firearms. All the police have to do is take everyone else's firearms, and they'd likely have that many.

Anyone who imagines that most of those arrested won't end up being convicted are dreaming.

We shall see, won't we.

In the meantime, there is that presumption of innocence thingy you just don't seem to get. Pejorative terms like "gangsters" really don't bolster your case, they just make you look like a wannabe jackboot.

"Last time I took Texas CHL and unless the law has changed, it is a crime to take a firearm into a bar. "

Not in the Twin Peaks incident as it derives at least 51% of its income from food not alcohol.

According to Texas Penal Code Annotated Section 46.035 it is unlawful to carry a handgun (even by a licensed holder) in a bar: "(1) on the premises of a business that has a permit or license issued under Chapter 25, 28, 32, 69, or 74, Alcoholic Beverage Code, if the business derives 51 percent or more of its income from the sale or service of alcoholic beverages for on-premises consumption, as determined by the Texas Alcoholic Beverage Commission under Section 104.06"

Therefore, Twin Peaks is a restaurant, not a bar according to Texas and a licensed holder CAN carry inside.