Open carry bill in texas

[Mastro]

Looks to be dead in the water and will not leave committee

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=83R&Bill=HB700

[wilded]

Looks to be dead in the water and will not leave committee

http://www.legis.state.tx.us/BillLoo...83R&Bill=HB700

Until people wake up and we get rid of the liberal Republicans like Pickett and Straus it will just keep getting buried each session along with any tax rellief.

[Wildman]

WILDED - HE lives..........

[wilded]

WILDED - HE lives..........

Barely, moving to your old stomping grounds in late July my friend. ET

[Shane]

Until people wake up and we get rid of the liberal Republicans like Pickett and Straus it will just keep getting buried each session along with any tax rellief.

Yep. Except Pickett is a Dem.

[wilded]

Yep. Except Pickett is a Dem.

Some of the Republicans work so close with him I forget. Thanks, ET

[Shane]

Some of the Republicans work so close with him I forget. Thanks, ET

It's hard to tell the difference between him and some of the liberal Republicans for sure. Whatever letter they have after their names, we need to get rid of 'em.

[Mastro]

Until people wake up and we get rid of the liberal Republicans like Pickett and Straus it will just keep getting buried each session along with any tax rellief.

It suprises me that other states already have open carry on the books but not Texas.

[wilded]

It suprises me that other states already have open carry on the books but not Texas.

Not when you look at the make-up of our legislature. The campus carry law got greatly watered down and will only confuse the issue and assure that the real right to carry on campus will not come back up. Most places will opt out. JMHO ET

[Mike D]

It suprises me that other states already have open carry on the books but not Texas.

When you look at the opinion of the sheeple, even some right here on this forum being scared of seeing a gun coupled with a spineless legislature and Governor, this is what you get.

Remember, at least for Perry there's no election this year so he just goes along to get along.

There are way more gun friendly states than Texas.

[TX_Kevin]

In this case it was Pickett. He's a line holding democrat and he'll do all he can along party lines.

[thomason]

Here is the last I can find on the bill

Bill: HB 700
Legislative Session: 83(R) Council Document: 83R 2564 JSC-F
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Last Action: 03/14/2013 H Left pending in committee
Caption Version: Introduced
Caption Text: Relating to the authority of a person who is licensed to carry a handgun to openly carry the handgun; providing penalties.
Author: Lavender | Paddie | White | Larson | Burkett
Coauthor: Bonnen, Dennis | Bonnen, Greg | Capriglione | Cook | Fallon | Flynn | Gooden | Hughes | King, Phil | King, Susan | Krause | Laubenberg | Leach | Miller, Rick | Phillips | Simmons | Thompson, Ed | Toth
Subjects: Weapons (I0887)
CONCEALED HANDGUNS (S0241)
PUBLIC SAFETY, DEPARTMENT OF (V0251)
House Committee: Homeland Security & Public Safety
Status: In committee
Actions: (descending date order)
Description
H Left pending in committee 03/14/2013
H Testimony taken/registration(s) recorded in committee 03/14/2013
H Committee substitute considered in committee 03/14/2013
H Considered in public hearing 03/14/2013
H Scheduled for public hearing on . . . 03/14/2013
H Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety 02/18/2013
H Read first time 02/18/2013
H Filed 01/24/2013

[wilded]

If the Republicans are in the majority why is Pickett in charge of the committee to decide what gets voted on and what doesn't?

[Higgy]

I thought they would finally take action on this and make it happen

[tvc184]

I thought they would finally take action on this and make it happen

Senate bill 299 might have even been a backdoor attempt at open carry but it did not pass, or at least not in its original form.

The original bill filed in January said:

"....and intentionally displays the handgun in plain view of another person in a public place in a manner calculated to cause alarm....".

So as long as you were not shown to carry openly to try to alarm people (the current law on carrying long guns has the same phrase) then open carry would have been legal.

In the final version that passed, the phrase "in a manner calculated to cause alarm" was struck.