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Liberty wrote:

Jacob Staff wrote:A couple of years ago, I forgot my wallet and did not realize until I was 15 minutes away from the house.

I pulled over and put my pistol in the trunk of my car and it stayed there until I got back home.

If you are stopped in Harris County carrying a pistol with out a CHL, you are going to jail according to the DA.

While the DA is anxious to to prosecute, I believe that many police officers, departments and deputy sheriffs aren' real willing to test the prosecuters legal theory. I would be very careful, but I don't think going to jail is a slam dunk while travelling in Harris county.

Keith Patton of Katy was arrested in February.

http://www.houstonpress.com/2007-04-19/ ... -unloaded/

Just to be on the safe side, he told the officer he had an unloaded gun in his car. No ammunition anywhere, just an unloaded .357 Magnum.

The result: 27 hours in jail and about $2,100 in fees and attorney's costs.
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Prosecutors around the state, however, believed the law was unclear. The policy in many areas became to arrest someone for carrying a gun in the car and let prosecutors decide whether to charge them or not.

A couple of years ago, I forgot my wallet and did not realize until I was 15 minutes away from the house.

I pulled over and put my pistol in the trunk of my car and it stayed there until I got back home.

If you are stopped in Harris County carrying a pistol with out a CHL, you are going to jail according to the DA.

Now I check to make sure I have my wallet and pistol everytime I put on a seatbelt.