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Thank you for all your responses. I was pretty sure I was right, but needed to be guided in the right direction.

I don't know if the car kills Kennedy or not, I'm still ~100 pages from the end, it's still early November of '63 in the book.

Maybe my Google- and search-fu is failing, but I can't get a search string together to give me an answer.

Was there any sort of carry in Texas pre-1968? I don't think there was - the back of my brain is tickling at the thought that there was no carry allowed once the state constitution stated that carry would be regulated by the lege, but I'm striking out.

Of course, this is one of my cursed combined OCD-and-adult-ADD "squirrel!" moments.

I'm reading Stephen King's 11/22/63, about a guy who goes back in time to try to stop the Kennedy assassination, and trying to figure out what else King has screwed up about Texas. Dallas isn't "central Texas", nobody was saying "Don't Mess With Texas" in 1961, you can't smell the Permian Basin oil fields from Dallas when the wind blows from the west (or could you back then?)...

Now, the protagonist just bought a .38 Colt revolver (for $12!!) and is told by the pawnshop owner that "carry is legal in Texas, no permit needed if you don't have a felony record."

I'm sure he's conflating gun laws here, but I've got to know chapter and verse to be sure. I get the no permit part, but the felony record part seems weird for the time period; also, the idea of legal carry, even in Texas back then seems a bit off.

Help? Anyone?