Quote Originally Posted by cstone View Post
In Texas, the only firearms permitted to be openly carried are long guns. Legally, a citizen may carry an AK or a Mosin but may not legally open carry a handgun. I understand the point of the open carry demonstrations in Texas were to point out the absurdity of the current open carry laws in Texas.
And they will quite likely end up with the same result that the open-carry-california crowd achieved: no more open carry.

Had the open carry proponents in CA individually gone about their daily lives with a pistol on their hip, they'd probably have been fine. But no, they had to amass in groups of 20-40 OC people at a time on small businesses to make a statement. It worked.

Had the open carry TX people not felt the need to go in groups maybe it'd not have hit the national media they way it has.

Open carry is legal in CO (well, in much of it), if anyone here wants to see that taken away, just get a bunch of guys together and start going to retail locations en masse, y'all can get your 15 minutes of fame too. The same people that took away 30rd mags and FTF sales would be happy to take OC away.

Open carry seems to have a lot in common with riding a Jetski: neither activity seems possible without an audience.