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johnson0317 wrote:I do not believe you have any defense against prosecution if your car breaks down, you do not have a CHL, and you choose to carry your weapon while walking to your house. You are allowed to carry from your house to your car, and back, and to the range and back, and to the gunsmith, and back...but I really do not think you are covered to simply take a hike with it because your car broke down.

RJ

apostate wrote:While potentially very important if you shoot someone who breaks into your hotel room in Texas, I don't see how it's relevant to the question of whether a landlord (or hotel) may prohibit firearms on their property as a term of the lease or other contract.

Consider that the Castle Doctrine also applies in our "place of business or employment" but if an employer has a policy prohibiting firearms, they can fire someone who carries in the office.

johnson0317 wrote:

sjfcontrol wrote:

johnson0317 wrote:The only legislation I know of concerns the Castle doctrine. It was expanded to include your car and any hotel/motel room you might stay in. I think it needs to be clarified by the yahoos in Austin. I won't be staying in any place that bans my carry...or will I?

RJ

Can you point to the legislation that speaks to hotel/motel rooms?

I could, but then you would never learn to walk on your own.

johnson0317 wrote:The only legislation I know of concerns the Castle doctrine. It was expanded to include your car and any hotel/motel room you might stay in. I think it needs to be clarified by the yahoos in Austin. I won't be staying in any place that bans my carry...or will I?

RJ

C-dub wrote:I thought we had already established that a hotel could not prohibit someone from bringing a gun into their hotel room? How is this any different?

Heartland Patriot wrote:

sjfcontrol wrote:

Keith B wrote:

sjfcontrol wrote:And does that mean I can't take my small pocket knife, or my base ball bat (sporting equipment) onto ( or into) the "premesis" ?

Knives no go, baseball bat, yes it would be OK if taking it in as as a baseball bat.

My reasoning is they specifically say knives. A baseball bat by definition is not a weapon. It only becomes a weapon if used for a purpose that it is not initially intended for. The same can be said about tire irons or rocks. However, a slingshot IS a weapon, and that is what it's purpose is, and would be prohibited.

And how do you know, once I've brought a item ( whatever it is) onto the premises, whether its intended to be a weapon or not? A baseball bat is "easily" used as a weapon. I can make a cutting instrument out of a piece of paper and some 2-part epoxy. ANYTHING can be used as a weapon. What sense does it make to say you can take " this" onto the premises, but not that just because it looks like a weapon? This is the same logic that prohibits "cop-killer" bullets. Or 11 round magazines.

If I could understand what the blazes affects the minds of people who believe those kinds of signs actually reduce crime, I'd try to come up with a cure and make a million dollars.

Keith B wrote:

sjfcontrol wrote:And does that mean I can't take my small pocket knife, or my base ball bat (sporting equipment) onto ( or into) the "premesis" ?

Knives no go, baseball bat, yes it would be OK if taking it in as as a baseball bat.

My reasoning is they specifically say knives. A baseball bat by definition is not a weapon. It only becomes a weapon if used for a purpose that it is not initially intended for. The same can be said about tire irons or rocks. However, a slingshot IS a weapon, and that is what it's purpose is, and would be prohibited.

Keith B wrote:

sjfcontrol wrote:So would that sign override MPA if posted at the entrance to a parking lot?

Yep. Unless it was your employer's parking lot covered by the Employee Parking Lot exception.

EDIT TO ADD: Actually, on second glance, no. It states premises, so the parking lot would be OK.

tommyg wrote:Thank you Fickman for the info that a HOA can no longer
forclose for anything other than dues my son is in
a HOA he has had trouble with it. I won't have
anything to do with any HOA