The Open Carry law will allow a license holder to “open carry” a holstered handgun, and the law makes no distinction between a loaded and an unloaded firearm.
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Supporters said the law would enhance public safety in the state of 27 million people. Many Texas firms, like H-E-B grocery, the state’s largest private employer, have announced they will continue to allow concealed carrying of firearms, but will not allow open carry. Under the Texas law, guns can be carried by those with licenses and only in holsters. They want to keep their restaurants family friendly, but don’t want to offend the state’s very vocal Second Amendment advocates who think openly carried handguns should be allowed everywhere.
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The non-profit group Open Carry Texas, which supports the law, posted a countdown on its website.
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“The irony is that you saw many law enforcement agencies lobby strongly against that provision that would have restricted them outright from ever asking if someone had a license absent other evidence of a crime”, Edmonds said, noting that’s changed after a number of those same agencies talked with their legal counsels. State Representative Diego Bernal, a Democrat representing San Antonio who voted against the bill, said the law is a mistake.
First Baptist Church of Arlington will allow its staff and congregation to openly carry firearms as the law goes into effect statewide tomorrow, January 1, 2016.
Question: If I am carrying a handgun, and I am approached by a police officer, what steps should I take to ensure that the police officer and myself both feel safe during this transaction? And even then, you can’t carry your gun everywhere.
The law specifically bans the carrying of guns, either openly or concealed, in a wide variety of places including schools, bars, sports arenas and secure areas of airports.
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And this is far from the only gun debate underway in Texas.
