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Personally, I dont think it's a wise ideer. Altho I dont believe that it is illegal to own or carry handcuffs, I would strongly advise against doing it.

I totally understand your reasoning for considering carrying handcuffs. If you have a habit of being in situations where your shirt rides up, or something else moves out of place, and anyone observing makes a stink about seeing your otherwise concealed handgun, I can see why you may ponder that option. However, in reality, if you are carrying cuffs on your belt, concealed along with your handgun, you may very well attract negative attn from not only your fellow citizens, but from the police as well.

The whole CHL badge and handcuff issue is a bad idea for civilians. Even tho you arent outright declaring or verbally stating that you are a LEO, in a big way you are trying to create the illusion that you are a LEO, and therefore are, from a certain perspective, pretending to be a LEO, which we all know is a felonious act. All it would take is one person calling 911 and reporting that they think a person that is pretending to be a LEO is beebopping around town with a gun and cuffs on their belt, and in short order you will find yourself in the back seat of a police cruiser, charged with impersonating a LEO. Your freedom and money would be gone, along with, I suspect, an automatic end to your CHL carrying days.

If you are legally carrying, and you arent in a 30.06 and 30.07 location, who cares if people see your handgun? You are doing nothing wrong, illegal, or immoral. As time goes by, the general populice of Texas is growing more and more accustomed to seeing guns on their fellow citizens' belts. If they overreact to the point that they apptoach you, or call the police to "report" you, it is they who will be set straight about the law, and how it is a waste of everyone's time to report a perfectly legal situation.

I always carry concealed....or at least that's what I intend to do 100% of the time. Yesterday I walked into a Valero to get something to drink. As I stood in line awaiting my turn to check out, the guy standing behind me leaned forward and said...."cool looking pistol you have there bro" . For a split second I cringed, for I had screwed up, got sloppy, and allowed my gun to be publicly viewable. Earlier, as I drove around town, the side of the butt end of my handgun was poking into my skin, so I did what most people do in that situation and tucked my shirt tail in between the grip and my skin. When I entered the store I simply forgot to cover up my gun, thereby showing anyone behind me that I was carrying. As I stated already, I cringed for a couple seconds, then realized its not a big deal. I simply covered it up and told the guy...thanks mate.