I've heard the reasons for open carry.
But I'm not for it.
I'd rather no one know I am carrying.
JMHO
Personally.
If it were legal I would not do it.
Personally.
If it were legal I would not do it.
Personally.
If it were legal I would not do it.
I get that. I would not do it often. But no one should be able to put me in jail if I chose to either.
Very few do. I have lived OC states and never seen a single person OC. But I have seen plenty of fanny packs.
Living in an open carry state most of my life, I have seen open carriers almost daily. It is a normal everyday thing in New Mexico.
No declaration required any longer. Ive herd its common courtesy to hand them your CHL along with license. It may get you off with a warning as well but this is just a rumor. I've never experienced it myself.
I was just reading that on a different forum.
I don't have my chl, not really interested in getting it. I don't go anywhere and I live in a retirement town.. The reason I asked is when my dad got his chl a few years ago, the instructor told him, "when you get pulled over, place the weapon on the dash along with your chl license and place your hands on the wheel"... To me, this might make an officer's butt pucker, seeing someone fiddling with a gun, while running plates. He never subscribed to the idea, but went along with it to appease the instructor. Between that, and reading different forums on the subject, there was no real clear cut answer which drew my question.
I was just reading that on a different forum.
I don't have my chl, not really interested in getting it. I don't go anywhere and I live in a retirement town.. The reason I asked is when my dad got his chl a few years ago, the instructor told him, "when you get pulled over, place the weapon on the dash along with your chl license and place your hands on the wheel"... To me, this might make an officer's butt pucker, seeing someone fiddling with a gun, while running plates. He never subscribed to the idea, but went along with it to appease the instructor. Between that, and reading different forums on the subject, there was no real clear cut answer which drew my question.
That advice will get someone shot.
If I get pulled over, why am I required to tell the officer I have a gun in the car/on me if I am a CHL holder, but I don't have to speak a word of it if I have it in my car without the CHL? Is this just a rip in the seam or what?
That's horrible advice. That instructor should not be teaching.
The answer is that there is still a rule in the Gov code which requires CHL holders to present the CHL when ID is demanded, but the Legislature removed all penalties in 2009 because it was ridiculous for CHL holders to be required to disclose when non CHL holders did not have to.
That advice will get someone shot.
You are required to inform because that is how the CHL law was setup years ago.
Then along came the Motorist Protection Act, and those non-CHLs were not required to inform, since they did not have a license to begin with.
Then the silliness of this was pointed out, and in their infinite wisdom, the Texas Legislature decided to remove the penalty for failing to inform, instead of removing the requirement to inform. So now we are left with this silly situation where you still must inform, but failure to do so carries no penalty.