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We are in Texas...it is reasonable to assume that a person driving a motor vehicle in Texas has a gun. It is legal(license or no license). Why lead out with this?

I talked with a Louisiana Trooper once (not a an 'official discussion'...lol.) He told me when he pulled over a car headed to Shreveport with Texas plates, he just assumes that the likelihood of the driver having a gun in the car is above average. His thoughts were that it is legal in Texas and he saw no issue with a gun that was a situational non-issue on a routine traffic stop. He said most troopers use the reasoning that, if a LTC was given with the DL, they are legal according to Louisiana law to have a gun with them (whether they have one with them or not I irrelevant.) If the driver does not hand them an LTC, whether they have a gun or not is not germane to the routine traffic stop, therefore it is also a non-issue. They made the stop because of speeding. Asking about a gun that may or may not be present is adding an unnecessary complication to a stop where they would just as soon have it go smooth and simple. Kind of the K.I.S.S. process in a nutshell.