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nightmare wrote:

A-R wrote:As for "flashing" depends what you're flashing (breasts are ok under state law, other body parts are not; local laws vary).

Read more under PC 21.08 http://www.statutes.legis.state.tx.us/D ... /PE.21.htm" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Ask anyone who works in an OR, 90% of the time clothes cover many things that no one would ever want to see. To quote my wife (20 yrs in OR) "It ain't pretty".

More about use of force:
Except as provided in Subsection (b), a person is justified in using force against another when and to the degree the actor reasonably believes the force is immediately necessary to protect the actor against the other's use or attempted use of unlawful force. The actor's belief that the force was immediately necessary as described by this subsection is presumed to be reasonable if the actor:
(1) knew or had reason to believe that the person against whom the force was used:
(A) unlawfully and with force entered, or was attempting to enter unlawfully and with force, the actor's occupied habitation, vehicle, or place of business or employment;
(B) unlawfully and with force removed, or was attempting to remove unlawfully and with force, the actor from the actor's habitation, vehicle, or place of business or employment; or
(C) was committing or attempting to commit aggravated kidnapping, murder, sexual assault, aggravated sexual assault, robbery, or aggravated robbery;
(2) did not provoke the person against whom the force was used; and
(3) was not otherwise engaged in criminal activity, other than a Class C misdemeanor that is a violation of a law or ordinance regulating traffic at the time the force was used.
(b) The use of force against another is not justified:
(1) in response to verbal provocation alone;
(2) to resist an arrest or search that the actor knows is being made
by a peace officer, or by a person acting in a peace officer's presence and at his direction, even though the arrest or search is unlawful, unless the resistance is justified under Subsection (c);
(3) if the actor consented to the exact force used or attempted by the other;
(4) if the actor provoked the other's use or attempted use of unlawful force, unless:
(A) the actor abandons the encounter, or clearly communicates to the other his intent to do so reasonably believing he cannot safely abandon the encounter; and
(B) the other nevertheless continues or attempts to use unlawful force against the actor

Hofacker wrote:OK, great. In my scenario you were in a "public place": The quicky mart, and you "intentionally displayed" your weapon. Is that "flashing"?

There is nothing in Texas law about "flashing" (not related to guns anyway). If you are wanting to know if you would be justified in displaying your firearm, the answer is displaying your weapon would be justified if use of force was legally justified.

psijac wrote:Intentional failure to conceal. Have you taken the chl course? I am pretty sure its all covered in there. I'm not a laywer.

That's the old language. The new language is “intentional display of a weapon in a public place”.