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by RoyGBiv
Thu Feb 20, 2014 3:42 pm
Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
Topic: NFL doesn't want off duty cops carrying
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Re: NFL doesn't want off duty cops carrying

Texas tells NFL Their Gun Laws (sic) Don’t Apply Here
Texas state law states that so long as off-duty law enforcement officers check in at specific gates and let stadium employees know where they’ll be sitting, they will be allowed to carry a firearm
by RoyGBiv
Wed Oct 09, 2013 1:35 pm
Forum: LEO Contacts & Bloopers
Topic: NFL doesn't want off duty cops carrying
Replies: 78
Views: 14417

Re: NFL doesn't want off duty cops carrying

Jaguar wrote:
Charles L. Cotton wrote:It's also not going to work in Texas. Texas law prohibits them from barring armed peace officers. I don't like that law one bit, but it's the law.

Chas.
Tex. Penal Code §30.05 wrote:(i) This section does not apply if:

(1) the basis on which entry on the property or land or in the building was forbidden is that entry with a handgun or other weapon was forbidden; and

(2) the actor at the time of the offense was a peace officer, including a commissioned peace officer of a recognized state, or a special investigator under Article 2.122, Code of Criminal Procedure, regardless of whether the peace officer or special investigator was engaged in the actual discharge of an official duty while carrying the weapon.
Wow, I never read all of 30.05, now that I have I am surprised by it. :shock:

So what limits are there on Peace Officers that forbid them to enter or stay on property of another? It looks like the Third and Fouth Amendment took a holiday when they wrote this law.
The way I read that, I can bar any specific person, regardless of whether they are LE. I just cannot generically say "armed LE not welcome". But I can say "Joe Smith get out", even if Joe is LE (unless he's there in an official capacity and acting under legal authority).

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