Does Open Carry Include Rifles?

[mm54943]

Apparently there was a guy in a local Walmart walking around with a rifle (and looks like a 6 pack of Bud Light tall boys). Seems to have caused a lot of panic. Does constitutional/open carry include something like this?

This was taken by someone who was there.

 

[majormadmax]

Open carry of long guns was legal before open carry of handguns.

As long as he doesn't display it "in a manner calculated to alarm" (per Texas Penal Code Sec. 42.01. (8) DISORDERLY CONDUCT) it's okey-dokey!

 

[Havok1]

People don’t appear to be panicking.

 

[ZX9RCAM]

Didn't want anybody to give him shit for buying bud light....

 

[mm54943]

Didn't want anybody to give him shit for buying bud light....

Lol, I thought that part was kinda funny too. Carrying a rifle and a sixer of Bud Light.

 

[V-Tach]

Surprised it wasn't a SKS...........

 

[kbaxter60]

It was all legal until he picked up the Bud Light.

 

[jjkukla]

It was all legal until he picked up the Bud Light.

And why is that? I mean, I can understand consumption being illegal while carrying. But purchasing too?

Did I miss that somewhere?

 

[striker55]

Lol, I thought that part was kinda funny too. Carrying a rifle and a sixer of Bud Light.

Those are the people to look out for, don't you know?

 

[majormadmax]

And why is that? I mean, I can understand consumption being illegal while carrying. But purchasing too?

Did I miss that somewhere?

 

[John Sam Rayburn]

I can understand consumption being illegal while carrying.

Is consuming alcohol while carrying a firearm really illegal ?

Of course it's a bad idea, but I can't remember the law.

Is it like operating a motor vehicle, where you can have alcohol in your system, but not over a certain amount?

 

[BRD@66]

It's Bud Light - it's not beer.

 

[ScottDLS]

It was all legal until he picked up the Bud Light.

And it was still legal after that. And it would have been legal to carry the gun if he was shitfaced drunk, but it would have been illegal to sell him the Bud Light.

And Bud Light is still gay.

 

[Lonesome Dove]

Only a dickhead would carry a rifle. All it's doing is f---ing over everything to do with firearms.

 

[CavCop]

In Texas a rifle or shotgun is not a handgun and can be carried, even into bars, and the 51% alcohol rule does not apply to long guns.

However, businesses can tell you to leave, and it can become trespassing.

Hunting lodges/bars are not as big as they used to be.

 

[TreyG-20]

Looks pretty durka durka to me.

 

[rotor]

In Texas a rifle or shotgun is not a handgun and can be carried, even into bars, and the 51% alcohol rule does not apply to long guns.

However, businesses can tell you to leave, and it can become trespassing.

Hunting lodges/bars are not as big as they used to be.

Also 30.05 and "No Firearms" signage are valid no long gun signs. I think it is now illegal to carry a long gun in a 51% bar.

 

[leVieux]

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I grew-op in an always OC legal area. we often carried even as kids, and few paid any attention to it.

During the intervening years, a false stigma was attached to ALL firearms ownership, and many quit the legal practice over “public disapproval”. Indeed, some jurisdictions, like the gun-friendly Florida, even made O C illegal.

This has left the general public with distrust and uneasiness around armed citizens.

One extremely important facet, which I can’t recall being covered here is this: The public needs to become re-accustomed to seeing armed people. Normal looking, non-threatening everyday men & women. People going about their daily activities.

In recent years, in Texas & other places, most OC’ers I’ve seen in public places have been poorly dressed, unkempt youngish men.

The public should see better-dressed folks, neater, carrying as they go about their daily activities. This should re-acclimate folks to the fact that they are often surrounded by armed non-criminal Citizens, whether they know it, or not.

We cannot allow our RIGHTS to be diminished by the foolish opinions of a multitude of Karens.

The few times I have OC’d lately, I’m sometimes asked if I were a LEO. I smile & say no, just an old retired Doc who once was a US Army Captain, but my Son is a career LEO. Everyone seems satisfied with that.

Let’s all try to make other folks become comfortable.

leVieux
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[BBL]

And why is that? I mean, I can understand consumption being illegal while carrying. But purchasing too?

Did I miss that somewhere?

Neither is illegal. I think the comment about him purchasing BL being illegal was just a joke.
And whoever told you that consuming while carrying is illegal does not understand the Texas Penal Code and misinformed you. It might be illegal in a few other states but not in Texas.

 

[Havok1]

Only a dickhead would carry a rifle. All it's doing is f---ing over everything to do with firearms.

No it’s not. people who are “a gun owner, but…” are more harmful than this guy carrying a rifle while buying beer.