Garys
NES Member
Open carry on one's person (not on private property) was illegal in Texas until 2016. That's why the law was passed that year to change that. There's a lot of information on that available and a simple search will find it. I won't waste time rehashing that here. Ann Richards vetoed concealed carry several times, it was G.W. Bush who finally signed it.
Denial for cause in Texas, still doesn't make one disqualified from purchasing. That's a separate process. If he was able to buy from a FFL, then he passed the background check. If this was a problem with NICS, then it should be fixed.
I still don't know if his military conviction was entered into the system or not. If not, that's a significant lapse.
Denial for cause in Texas, still doesn't make one disqualified from purchasing. That's a separate process. If he was able to buy from a FFL, then he passed the background check. If this was a problem with NICS, then it should be fixed.
I still don't know if his military conviction was entered into the system or not. If not, that's a significant lapse.
Yes, I know, I lived there for four years. My point was that the denial of a carry permit "for cause" in Texas is a whole lot different than a denial of a carry permit in MA or other communist venue due to a "may issue" clause in the law.....enabling chiefs of police to discriminate for any number of reasons.
There was no law prohibiting open carry on your person in Texas when I lived there and I routinely had a gun sitting openly on my passenger seat or in the glove compartment. Concealed carry was prohibited unless one was an employed security guard, military or a police officer.
Not until Suzanna Hupp's parents were killed in Luby's Cafeteria did concealed carry come to the state. I lived one street from the place several years previous.