Texas does not allow open carry. Yet. The Lone Star state looks set to rectify that, uh, oversight. Click here to read 83(R) HB 700, introduced by Representative George Lavender, separated at birth from Wallace Shawn. Given the state’s anger at federal plans for civilian disarmament, this may be the time for an open carry bill to make it into law. Watch this space. “This bill is a good first step toward restoring full open carry rights to Texas,” John Pierce from OpenCarry.org tells TTAG. “While we’d love to see unlicensed open carry in all 50 states, we recognize that we may need to reclaim lost ground the same way we lost it … one step at a time. The only change to existing Texas law: permit holders can carry concealed or openly as they see fit. Any politician who opposes such a common-sense improvement to the law will be exposed as an opponent of gun rights.”
100% agree. I hereby declare Rob Pincus to be the antidote to James Yeager.
I thought Piers Morgan was the star of that BBC show, “Idiot Abroad”?
As an Okie who has been able to open carry for three months I feel the need to say, “Nah nah nah!”
I may not be up competing with Piers and the good Mayor on an intellectual level, but I listened to that ad multiple times and could not, for the life of me, manage to interpret anything he said as, “Don’t call the cops, it won’t do you any good. Instead, grab a gun and shoot at anything that moves.” What I got was, “Call 911, but we might not be there in time to save your scrawny @$$. In the meantime, tool up and defend you and yours.”
Anyone else able to follow Morgan’s logic there? Maybe you could help me, I’m just a pre-med student. Maybe words don’t mean what I think they mean.
Oh. Hell. Yes. Finally not having to shove a 1911 inside my waistband all the freaking time. Now I don’t know about everyone else, but I won’t be open carrying 100% of the time, but it’s nice to have the option. I like it because I can conceal carry in a “normal” holster outside my pants, wear a light jacket or shirt and not have to worry about “printing”. Did anybody else here about the pro2a walk through the stock yards in Fort Worth tomorrow? I was told by a detective that it was OK’ed by the local PD to open carry long arms on the walk. Just wondering if it’s miscommunication or accurate.
First off, I have and use a safe. 2 actually. But if someone breaks into and steals your car and then lead the police on a 100 mph chase thru a city resulting in death and destruction, who’s at fault? Certainly not the car owner.
Regardless of how we store our guns if someone breaks in and steals them how are we at fault. Do we accept that it’s our faults for simply owning the guns? In this argument we’re always on the defensive. And that gives the anti’s a little more leverage against us.
I can answer that question pretty easily. If someone breaks into your gun safe and steals your gun, then you are not responsible for what happens.
If you own a safe but don’t use it, then when someone steals your gun, it is pretty much your fault. (I am using “you” in the collective sense, here, sorry.)
If someone tries to cover up their recklessness by claiming the gun was stolen from a safe, then they are part of the problem. I own a pretty good safe. A neighborhood kid with a crowbar is not going to be able to get anything out of that safe without power tools.
No dave, if someone breaks into your house you are not responsible no matter how you store your gun. finding guilt and blame in the homeowner for simply owning a gun is one more step to banning guns.
It’s not that a couple of elitist statist “we are so superior to the chattering classes”
types are against us “common citizens” having weapons to defend ourselves; it’s the incomprehensible fact that so many so called “Americans” actually agree with these arrogant and disgusting individuals.
I’m finding that Mr. LaPierre doesn’t really present compelling arguments. He really goes off-track and distracts from the discussion.
he was interrupted during testimony. That is heckling. You guys aren’t really smart but you are lunatics lol
This makes me so freaking happy.
HAS ANYONE SEEN CHIPS OUT OF THE BARREL,WERE THE SHELLS LOAD. MY SAIGA 12 HAS TWO,TOP AND BOTTOM..SENT IT IN FOR REPAIR, THEY SENT IT BACK SAYING IT’S FINE ?
If we’re afraid of this it’s only because we’ve allowed the anti’s to define the debate. I see events like this as an example of the chickens coming home to roost. That is to say that after decades of efforts in society and the legal system to demonize all things gun-related, they have only succeeded in creating an environment conducive to this evil behaviour. The anti’s are so much more at fault than the law-abiding gun owners. They should be the ones under pressure to compromise their views and allow reasonable repeals of unreasonable gun restrictions.
These bastards and their tyrannical “Gun Control” agenda are WRONG. Having more shootings isn’t going to change that fact. There could be 1000x school-shootings tomorrow and they will STILL be wrong.
It’s time to hit back at these sick bloodancing, traitorous tyrants and their FatherlandSecurity/BATF thugs with all fury.
Go on the offensive. Show them that their push for shootings/incidents so they think they can get their agenda passed isn’t going to work. In fact it will do the OPPOSITE.
I’ll tell you this: Regardless of what happens in the future good, bad or otherwise… From now on we are getting our rights back. We will NOT comply with anymore infringements.
SOMEBODY kept electing her for decades…I guess you get what you ask for.
Toxic sludge; that pretty much sums up Diane Feinswine. I wish she’d head back to California and get hopelessly lost along the way.
When we have a group of people that have been brainwashed into believing that their life is much less valuable than the criminals we are going to have the continuous dog & pony show, Randy
Hmmmm what luck, there is a rally at the range I shoot at.
Any police officer that wonders why you are open carrying should immediately call you a pot.
Until Texans are free to carry WITHOUT a permit, I’ll stay here in the West.