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CowboyPilot wrote:If you dont mind indulging my ignorance, what are they looking for specifically on exit? Making sure you're not stealing hazmat or things you could make NBC type devices out of?

They try to make sure you aren't stealing anything. Also they don't search you going in, just out.

Here's the law (guns in parking lots) when it comes to a plant with gate guards
Sec. 52.062. EXCEPTIONS. (a) Section 52.061 does not:
(1) authorize a person who holds a license to carry a concealed handgun under Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, who otherwise lawfully possesses a firearm, or who lawfully possesses ammunition to possess a firearm or ammunition on any property where the possession of a firearm or ammunition is prohibited by state or federal law; or
(2) apply to:
(F) property owned or leased by a chemical manufacturer or oil and gas refiner with an air authorization under Chapter 382, Health and Safety Code, and on which the primary business conducted is the manufacture, use, storage, or transportation of hazardous, combustible, or explosive materials, except in regard to an employee who holds a license to carry a concealed handgun under Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, and who stores a firearm or ammunition the employee is authorized by law to possess in a locked, privately owned motor vehicle in a parking lot, parking garage, or other parking area the employer provides for employees that is outside of a secured and restricted area:
(i) that contains the physical plant;
(ii) that is not open to the public; and
(iii) the ingress into which is constantly monitored by security personnel.

rp_photo wrote:The plant was 30.06 posted, but since the gun remained in the vehicle at all times, it was never carried under the authority of my CHL. In other words, a CHL would not have been required since the MPA authorizes guns in vehicles.

So i'm assuming that i at least didn't violate 30.06 and put my CHL at risk, but of course there could have been a lot of other problems.

MPA and CHL don't apply if it's a plant (chemical/refinery) that us gated and has guards at the entrance and exits