Texas Laws that take effect 9/01/09

[C. Richard Archie]

HB 2730 amends numerous provisions regarding concealed handgun licenses (CHLs), including eliminating student loan defaults as a disqualifier, to clarify that DPS must suspend or revoke a license when the licensee becomes ineligible and mandating that a magistrate suspend a CHL held by the subject of an emergency protective order.

HB 2664 provides a defense to prosecution if a concealed handgun license holder carries a concealed handgun into an establishment that gets 51 percent or more of its income from the sale of alcoholic beverages, but has failed to post the statutorily required notice that it derives 51 percent or more of its income from the sale of alcoholic beverages. (Under current law, a concealed handgun licensee can be charged with a Class A misdemeanor for doing this.)

HB 2730 removes DPS authority to suspend a concealed handgun license (CHL) for the holder’s failure to display the CHL to a peace officer on demand. It removes associated penalties and suspensions for the failure to display.

[ProguninTN]

Those sound like good laws. Now if only TX would legalize open carry. Under current law, as I understand it, even printing is illegal. Print and get popped with "Failure to conceal". I know some prefer concealed carry, but open legal carry protects those persons from "failure to conceal nonsense". Ironic that a state with a "cowboy with a gun" reputation prohibits open carry.

[GraceOutcast]

[quote="including eliminating student loan defaults as a disqualifier[/quote]

Wow I had no idea that I would be unfit to carry in TN if that law were in effect here.

"Now Billy if you don't pay off your school loans you can't exercise your second amendment right that you paid thousands of dollars to learn about"

[ProguninTN]