Posted on 04/30/2016 2:14:19 AM PDT by marktwain
I have been staying in the Dallas, Texas, metro area for 10 days now. I have seen very few 30.06 signs or 30.07 signs.
They are good sized signs and take up a considerable amount of space, so they are hard to miss, which is part of the legislative intent.
I have noticed them in three places. The sign pictured above is at the entrance to a Dallas pediatric center. I was assisting my daughter in taking her son there for a checkup. As she also has a 20 day old infant, an extra hand was appreciated. The weather was cool for someone used to Yuma, so I put on a light fleece jacket/shirt. It covered my Glock 17. I was not concerned as the permits that I have are good for both open and concealed carry in Texas. I did not know about the sign until we approached the door.
It would have been inconvenient to return to the car while carrying an 18 month old child; I appreciated the wisdom of the legislature on requiring separate signs to forbid open or concealed carry. The sign above is a 30.07 sign. It forbids *open carry*. As I had my jacket on, I understood that the sign was not meant for me, and I ignored it. If I had only been wearing a T-shirt, I could have untucked it and covered the pistol.
I have only seen the signs in two other places. A pair of 30.06 and 30.07 signs were on the window of a gas station in a somewhat less than perfect neighborhood where I was going to gas up while investigating
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The Pick N Pull chain of self-serve auto junkyards has locations in Texas and in DFW specifically. They just reposted their existing big 30.06 signs and they added a 30.07 sign at each of their locations. It is perhaps not surprising to find out that PNP, which started in Stockton CA, is actually a division of Schnitzer Steel these days, out of Portland Oregon - Libtardlandia indeed.
Most other local junkyards don’t actually care; and PNP locations are amusingly one of the few places I’ve seen 30.06 and 30.07 signs.
how’d ya like the rain today
I am not an open carry guy though I support it.
I lived in Az for a number of years and open carry works quite civilly, but why show your hand?
Yep. I would not open carry because that will get you one in the back. The only benefit to open carry for me is that if someone just happens to see the handle in my pocket, no harm, no foul. The other is if I wanted to move it from my pocket before getting into my vehicle, again, no harm, no foul.
They probably just want to discourage customers from using the place as freeloader’s firing range.
The 51% signs are everywhere, put up by TABC or whatever alphabet soup they are these days.
Since the 30-06, more commonly known as the 30 ought 6 is addressed I am curious.
It is the quintessential American cartridge and my favorite of the rifle variety.
Does it forbid you from or mandate that you do carry a Garand?
Does the sign apply to ISIS?
Yet another reason not to go to PNP.
“What’s a 30.06 sign?”
When the Texas legislature mandated a sign if you were going to use one to ban guns on your premises, some wag in the legislature numbered the statute 30.06. The Legislator clearly knew of the caliber, and took the opportunity to make a statement.
When the legislature made a separate sign necessary to ban open carry, its natural place was 30.07 in the statutes.
It was fine. I got in my run just before it started.
Open carried along Marsh Ln and Rosemeade. No hassles, just courteous “Good Morning” or “Good Afternoon” from other pedestrians.
exactly
Also you should know that the new legislation changed the penalty for violating the sign down to a mild misdemeanor. Now if someone notices your concealed carry and asks you to leave and you don’t- that becomes a severe infraction.
You bring up a good point. It would have been a good inclusion for the article.
Maybe someone can explain the big red signs at the Houston airports, on all of the doors. They read something like this:
UNLICENSED POSSESSION OF FIREARMS PROHIBITED
As far as I know, the only firearms that require a ‘license’ in Texas are automatics and other federally controlled guns. I cannot figure out what the hell these signs are referring to.
I believe they are referring to people who do not have licenses to carry guns.
Texas requires a permit to carry a gun outside of the home or private vehicle.
As I recall, they do not have the force of law.
When I came out, I saw on the inner (dark and hard to see...) wall, a 30.07 sign.
Since I was wearing an overshirt, (as I usually do) I was in compliance.
The whole incident struck me as odd. They took down their readily-visible 30.06 (no concealed carry) sign from the outer wall, and put up a (barely visible) 30.07 (no open carry) sign inside their premises (where anyone who could see it would already be in violation).
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Just more proof that anti-gunners are no-brainers...
“They are good sized signs and take up a considerable amount of space...”
They’d be a lot smaller if they cut out the part in Spanish.
And while we’re on the subject, how come the signs aren’t required to be in Vietnamese, too?
Your recollection is faulty...
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Section 30.06 & 30.07 signs do "have the force of law". Violation of them is a misdemeanor trespass.
Since they are strictly specified (wording, contrast, letter size, dual language and placement) as part of the Penal Code, they are the only form of "no firearms" signs that do bear the force of law.
The (slightly more common) "'circle-slashed' handgun silhouette" has no legal meaning; if I obey one, it is merely as a courtesy...
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