+1! Growing up in Idaho, I remember dad and I going to convenient stores/restaurants both before and after our day of hunting/shooting with our sidearms openly visible on our hip... and nobody even gave it a second thought. And that wasn't in the "good old days" either; it was 10 years ago.

The only reason to carry a pistol is to buy you time to get to your shotgun.

In TX. if you don't have a CHL you're not lawfully allowed to carry a handgun on your person unless it's being transported, like from a vehicle to a home etc. then you're covered under the Castle law, there's no grey area there. I'm not a fan of the CHL and I'd prefer to see open carry like a few of the other states have. The rest fell into the officer's discretion and whatever happened between him and your buddy.

You should really take a look at the laws again.

In the good old days all Texas pickups had a gun rack with guns in the back.If you did that now everyone in a hundred miles would come to steal them.

House Bill 1815 as passed by the 80th Legislature allows for the carry of a concealed handgun on your premises or premises under your control (a vehicle and/or an RV included). There are several benefits to having a Texas Concealed Handgun License: You can legally carry a loaded, concealed handgun on your person and in other states which honor a Texas CHL. You no longer have to undergo an F.B.I. background check to purchase a firearm. You have the legal ability to defend yourself and other innocent people from the violent acts of criminals.

What law stopes a CHL carrier from going across county lines. Pleas explain I'm confussed on this.

You have the legal ability to defend yourself and other innocent people from the violent acts of criminals.

I have that ability all along not ceded to government sanction, and an illegitimate constitutional state and federal opinion --




We come from different times in Texas - BEFORE CHL I legally could carry a pistol in plain sight on the seat of my vehicle traveling on business from one county to the next, I could carry it in a holster from my vehicle , home or property to use in hunting or target shooting even somewhere else.

CHL is just one more step by government on LAW ABIDING CITIZENS to REMOVE your CONSTITUTIONAL right to own or carry as you see fit

For all those of you who roll over and play the State and Feds game just to carry a handgun - SHAME IS ON YOU

Regulation - we have been led like sheep to slaughter - and with about as much backbone

My apologies to the LEO's who have to enforce unjust and unpopular law - it is what it is - and I will do what I deem necessary to resist goobermint intrusion to my right to keep and bear arms !!!

Resist peacefully. willing to pay court costs as well to uphold our constitution !!!

There is no law that prevents CHL holders from crossing county lines. Previously, non CHL holders were held to the "travelling" rule before they were allowed to conceal carry in their vehicles. Most jurisdictions considered travelling to be the crossing of a county line.

As to your Second Admendment argument, all admendments to the Constitution contain certain restrictions. You cannot write a letter to the President threatening him with bodily harm and claim it is your First Admendment right.

Willie sang it best " he wore his gun outside his vest for all the HONEST world to see "

A well regulated militia? NO an over regulated citizenry !!!

I feel perfectly safe with or without a weapon, but carry when I know there may be a possible dangerous encounter

Carrying ANY firearm anywhere is our right - however wrong our lawmakers may be

I would like to hear the rest of this story about WHY this person was jailed -

I completely agree with your views about restrictions and regulations on the red blooded, working American. It's making it harder for us tax paying, law abiding citizens to buy, sale, and trade firearms with little effect on the people who obtain a gun to use in an illegal act. HOWEVER, and not to start an argument with you or anyone else but there NEEDS to be some type of regulation/restriction/registartion on firearms, be it federal or local. It would be careless, irresponsible, and wreckless if there were no laws what so ever for firearms, this Country would be in complete chaos!

Again,,, Just because someone chooses not to get a CHL but feels the need to carry for self protection and have some training on how to handle a weapon doesn`t make for a [bad person] as long as not a known felon..Wouldn`t want to be in a bad situation and somebody have protection on them and have to ask question do you have a CHL to carry, I`d be dam glad they had it was there to help.. just sayn...Bill

I have had a CHL since they started the program. No one as yet, has come to take my guns away, but I suppose under the demoncrats it could happen.

Those of you that have purchased weapons legally are registered with the ATF, so they'll come for yours whether you have a chl or not.

Nobodys saying they're a bad person, but their breaking the law. As last I checked being a good/bad person or having good/bad intentions doesnt determine whether or not we must follow said law. The law is black and white, we must abide by all of them or face the potential penalty for breaking them. In this case, the guy was carrying illegally.. mabey to him there was enough of a safety risk at this fishing spot to warrant risking a trip to jail.. I'd never fish anywhere I felt like I needed a gun to be safe in the first place, but to each their own!

Any guess as if the guy that shot my son during a hold up two months ago was legal to carry or legal to own for that matter. I am going with NO.

The gun laws are like pad locks. Only for the honest.

I had CHL when they first allowed but have let it go back because I found it hard to carry legal (concealed). You can bet that I will be getting it back and will carry every where I go.