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mgood wrote:I gave this some thought when I was carrying that way every day without a CHL.
I worked in a gun store where carry at work was encouraged by the owner, in New Mexico (an open carry state), but lived in Texas.
I can legally take my firearms from my residence to my vehicle and back for any lawful purpose (going to the range or whatever), so I'm ok there.
Once I cross the line into New Mexico, I'm fine, in or out of the vehicle.
Not planning on getting out of my pickup between the time I leave home and the time I get to work.
Potential problem was getting stopped in Texas and asked to step out.
I figured I'd just inform the LEO that I was carrying and did not have a CHL.
He would know I'm legal under MPA. (I did ask a couple of local cops and one DPS officer questions about MPA and they all seemed familiar with it.)
Figure it would have to be a real jerk to ask me to step out of the vehicle where I'm legal and then arrest me for carrying illegally outside the vehicle when he knew I had it and asked me to get out. (And could possibly beat that in court on entrapment or something. But I'm trying to avoid going to court.)
This is a rural area with lots of hunters and probably quite a few CHLs. No one around here gets too excited about someone having a gun.
In Dallas or Houston? Who knows. But here I'd be really surprised if it was a problem unless I was being a jerk and making him want to find something to get me on.
I did, on more than one occasion, leave the house with the pistol on my belt and then decide I needed something from the convenience store (in Texas) to eat or drink on the way to work. I'd usually unholster and leave the pistol in my pickup and walk in the store open carrying an empty holster. No one ever mentioned it. Once when I did that, there were two police officers in the store and one of them for sure looked right at my holster and then at me and went right on talking to the other officer and never said a word to me. I think he had a pretty good idea that I'd just unholstered to go inside. Had a mag pouch with a loaded mag on the other side too. No law against carrying ammo around openly.