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From the 'careful what you ask for' file:
Texas Gun Owners Worry That Open Carry Is Backfiring
http://www.thetrace.org/2016/01/open-carry-texas-chl-forum/
On a forum moderated by an NRA board member, concealed carriers claim that a new law is leaving them unwelcome at more private businesses.
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In a post on TexasCHLForum.com, a popular gun rights website moderated by National Rifle Association board member Charles L. Cotton, one user reported that the new law has triggered private business owners to not only exercise their right to bar open carry on their premises, but prohibit concealed handguns as well. Any private business in Texas that wishes to bar firearms must display a strictly regulated sign dubbed 30.07 for openly carried guns, and 30.06 for concealed firearms. Amid the controversy over open carry, this gun owner was noticing more of both varieties.
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Just as easy to have both 30.06 (forbids concealed carry) and 30.07 (forbids open carry) signs made at the same time, a user named Distinguished Rick replied. We have lost more than we gained, he added. I have had my CHL 20 years this year and I hardly ran into any legal signs back then. This has woken up the anti-crowd in a big way. So now the genie is out of the bottle and I dont see a way to put it back.
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Weighing in again, the original poster, LTUME1978, felt that for Texass concealed carriers, the damage had been done. The lid is off this can of worms and it will never go back, reads a later post in the thread. I hope the right to walk around looking like Wyatt Earp is worth it to the open carry folks because a lot of us are loosing our right to concealed carry and it may cost some of us our lives for your privilege to play cowboy.
http://www.thetrace.org/2016/01/open-carry-texas-chl-forum/
On a forum moderated by an NRA board member, concealed carriers claim that a new law is leaving them unwelcome at more private businesses.
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In a post on TexasCHLForum.com, a popular gun rights website moderated by National Rifle Association board member Charles L. Cotton, one user reported that the new law has triggered private business owners to not only exercise their right to bar open carry on their premises, but prohibit concealed handguns as well. Any private business in Texas that wishes to bar firearms must display a strictly regulated sign dubbed 30.07 for openly carried guns, and 30.06 for concealed firearms. Amid the controversy over open carry, this gun owner was noticing more of both varieties.
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Just as easy to have both 30.06 (forbids concealed carry) and 30.07 (forbids open carry) signs made at the same time, a user named Distinguished Rick replied. We have lost more than we gained, he added. I have had my CHL 20 years this year and I hardly ran into any legal signs back then. This has woken up the anti-crowd in a big way. So now the genie is out of the bottle and I dont see a way to put it back.
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Weighing in again, the original poster, LTUME1978, felt that for Texass concealed carriers, the damage had been done. The lid is off this can of worms and it will never go back, reads a later post in the thread. I hope the right to walk around looking like Wyatt Earp is worth it to the open carry folks because a lot of us are loosing our right to concealed carry and it may cost some of us our lives for your privilege to play cowboy.
Ya' gotta love the way they whine. Poor babies. Too afraid to go out the front door without a loaded gun and now they see how the rest of the world feels about them. Over-reach will bite you in the ass.
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flamin lib
Jan 2016
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Aristus
(68,378 posts)1. Wow. They're turning on each other.
Concealed-carry supporters think open-carry supporters are 'Wyatt Earp' wanna-bees.
I think both groups are jump-at-shadows nutbags...
flamin lib
(14,559 posts)2. You have to feel sorry for someone suffering from agoraphobia
and too frightened of life to leave home without a loaded gun.
See them for what they are; scared little sniveling cowards that have to have a crutch to face life.
COLGATE4
(14,840 posts)3. Absolutely. The money shot is the last sentence in the whine:
"...a lot of us are loosing our right to concealed carry and it may cost some of us our lives...". Heavens forbid you go to get a loaf of bread without packing your 'little fren'"
safeinOhio
(34,093 posts)4. The Out of controllers are the loudest.
I wonder if they gab that AK to take with them to the bathroom at home.