To All,
Here in The Alamo City OPEN CARRY will get you "checked" by any LEO who is nearby, to see if your are licensed 100% of the time.
(The last time that I was "checked" was at a laundromat, when I bent over to pick-up some "dropped quarters" & exposed my pistol.)
The PCT 4 Constable came over to me & QUIETLY/POLITELY said, "It was just reported to me that you are wearing a gun. Are you?"
I said, "YES". He then asked if I had my handgun license with me & I said, "YES".
He requested to see my CHL & I showed it to him, he looked briefly at the license & then said, "FINE. What are you carrying?" - I said, "a SIG-SAUER P225" & the Constable smiled & said, "NICE PIECE", shook my hand & left.
(That "license check" seems to me to be VERY typical of CHL interactions with our local LEOs. = Most Texas LEOs seem to see handgun licensees as "allies".)
Fwiw, I've carried openly (other than "out of town"/on the farm) exactly ONCE & that was at our Alamo Shrine on the FIRST DAY of lawful open carry. - MANY licensed handgun carriers carried OPENLY at the Alamo that day.
(YES, I was stopped & questioned by an Alamo Ranger, who looked at my license & who thereafter said NOTHING except "OK".)
yours, satx
Here in The Alamo City OPEN CARRY will get you "checked" by any LEO who is nearby, to see if your are licensed 100% of the time.
(The last time that I was "checked" was at a laundromat, when I bent over to pick-up some "dropped quarters" & exposed my pistol.)
The PCT 4 Constable came over to me & QUIETLY/POLITELY said, "It was just reported to me that you are wearing a gun. Are you?"
I said, "YES". He then asked if I had my handgun license with me & I said, "YES".
He requested to see my CHL & I showed it to him, he looked briefly at the license & then said, "FINE. What are you carrying?" - I said, "a SIG-SAUER P225" & the Constable smiled & said, "NICE PIECE", shook my hand & left.
(That "license check" seems to me to be VERY typical of CHL interactions with our local LEOs. = Most Texas LEOs seem to see handgun licensees as "allies".)
Fwiw, I've carried openly (other than "out of town"/on the farm) exactly ONCE & that was at our Alamo Shrine on the FIRST DAY of lawful open carry. - MANY licensed handgun carriers carried OPENLY at the Alamo that day.
(YES, I was stopped & questioned by an Alamo Ranger, who looked at my license & who thereafter said NOTHING except "OK".)
yours, satx