Actually your recollection about the old law in Texas is incorrect. It was always legal to carry in your vehicle only if you were a ‘bona fide traveler”. Bona fide traveler was poorly defined, but if you were going between counties and had a suitcase / planned to stay overnight you were ok. Always carrying locally in your glove compartment wasn’t legal though.
The Mercedes dealer in Austin’s repair shop entrance used to have a placard : “NOT RESPONSIBLE FOR PISTOLS OR WHISKEY LEFT IN GLOVE COMPARTMENT”.
There is an epidemic of gun thefts from vehicles in upscale business and residential areas in Austin/Travis county now that APD has been hobbled by the city council and Soros DA. Don’t bring one you aren’t willing]/able to replace nd leave it in your glove box - I would carry it even in a business with a 30-06 or 95% sign rather than bring it and leave it. In fact they have had abductions of girls that parking lots that don’t have surveillance cameras at the Domain. And I am not saying Austin is worse than any other Texas big city.
In response to your reasoning about getting on a list, I have found that police making a traffic stop are more relaxed if you have a CHL, since you have a clean background check. CHL holders are more likely straight arrows than policemen.
Look. I am 75 years old. May family has owned and operated farms here since 1889. I’ve never in my life been questioned about a firearm.
Don’t expect to be questioned> But when they decide to come from outside the state to take weapons, they will not like how that is received.
And, Yes, we need to take back Austin. Evict the the leftie freaks from the state they are trying to subvert.