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What about Fun Ford Weekend?

Were I sitting on a grand jury hearing evidence on whether a person should be indicted and bound over for trial because he was found carrying concealed at a drag strip, and the prosecutor not having previously defined some terms, I would say that auto racing is, in fact, a sport, and this event is a professional event in that a monetary prize will be disbursed to the winner of the competition.


I think you could walk up to the fence (like the fence at the Motorplex) that is surrounding the track carrying concealed and be OK. You just cannot go inside the fence as I would think that would be defined as 'premises'. In my mind this would apply to any auto race track in Texas whether it is dirt track, a superspeedway, a drag strip, or any other possible combination because of the PRIZE MONEY involved. If there is no prize money involved and the track is not posted with a 30.06 sign, then, in my mind, there would be no foul.

I remember reading a thread about "professional sporting events". I think the consensus was if the losers still get paid, then it's a professional sporting even like NFL. But if only the winner gets paid and the losers go home empty, then it's an amateur event that has prize money.

By the way, I asked a LEO at the Texas Motorplex if Fun Ford Weekend qualified as a professional sporting event. He said yes. So I continued in saying that even if I had a CHL I wouldn't be able to carry. He said yes.