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It's not splitting hairs at all. As soon as you get in the car and take the gun off of your person, regardless of how it was worn/carried, you're no longer talking about carry, you're talking about storage in the car and everything changes. No matter what, it must be out of plain view.

That's why this discussion is confusing, it started out without acknowledging carry and storage are 2 different things. That's what ends the thread.

Ruark wrote:Argghhhh..... the text in SB17 addresses carrying in a vehicle:

• "SECTION 45. Section 46.02(a-1), Penal Code, is amended to
  read as follows:
  (a-1) A person commits an offense if the person
  intentionally, knowingly, or recklessly carries on or about his or
  her person a handgun in a motor vehicle or watercraft that is owned
  by the person or under the person's control at any time in which:
  (1) the handgun is in plain view, unless the person is
  licensed to carry a handgun under Subchapter H, Chapter 411,
  Government Code, and the handgun is carried in a shoulder or belt
  holster..."

So if they pass open carry, and you carry in your car, it STILL has to be in a holster.

All this is is amending what deals with storage in a car as it would continue to do when including open carry by a license holder.

Once you get in a car and unholster, nothing changes, the "in plain view" part, when not on your person doesn't change. I think this thread is just a misunderstanding.

Based on this, a licenced person can carry in their car the same way they do out of their car. When you disarm is when it must be stored out of plain view, which is the law now as it will continue to be because you are no longer carrying when you remove it from your person.

This sill doesn't make sense. It's about carry, not storage.

Storage has nothing to do with concealed or open carry. The requirements for keeping a handgun out of plain sight in a car apply to anyone with a handgun in a car, not just CHL holders.

Open or concealed carry in a car is no different than out of a car, you'd still wear, or carry the same way, or you'll store it out of plain sight as would anyone, CHL or not.

I'm scratching my head over this thread. The bill and the subject of license to carry whether concealed or open has to do with the carrying of a handgun, or in the words of the Constitution, wearing. It has nothing to do with how a handgun is or is not stored in a car. What was quoted in the OP is simply extending the same thing to open carry. Nothing changes, a CHL holder would still permitted or limited to carry the same way whether in or out of a car just as it is now.