Gun-unfriendly San Antonio?

[AlaskanInTexas]

I have only seen three 30-06 signs in DFW over the last eight years. One afternoon in San Antonio and I have seen five. Maybe I am getting a bad sample size, but it appears that it's a lot more tricky to carry down here. Would have expected the opposite.

[OldCannon]

I have only seen three 30-06 signs in DFW over the last eight years. One afternoon in San Antonio and I have seen five. Maybe I am getting a bad sample size, but it appears that it's a lot more tricky to carry down here. Would have expected the opposite.

Methinks you know little about the political and demographic makeup of San Antonio then. If the SA City Council could ban all guns, they would.

[Javier730]

I have only seen two 30.06 signs here in San Antonio. That must be because I don't go out much and don't visit downtown.

[CoffeeNut]

I rarely encounter them in my day to day although I'm not frequently downtown where I've encountered more. The city government doesn't care for guns or knives sadly.

[MechAg94]

I have only seen three 30-06 signs in DFW over the last eight years. One afternoon in San Antonio and I have seen five. Maybe I am getting a bad sample size, but it appears that it's a lot more tricky to carry down here. Would have expected the opposite.

Methinks you know little about the political and demographic makeup of San Antonio then. If the SA City Council could ban all guns, they would.

They probably are not the only city that would if they could.

[OldCannon]

I have only seen three 30-06 signs in DFW over the last eight years. One afternoon in San Antonio and I have seen five. Maybe I am getting a bad sample size, but it appears that it's a lot more tricky to carry down here. Would have expected the opposite.

Methinks you know little about the political and demographic makeup of San Antonio then. If the SA City Council could ban all guns, they would.

They probably are not the only city that would if they could.

Yup. Austin is another, and most of downtown Houston would too. I'm grateful for state preemption laws. Would be even more grateful if those laws had teeth.

[cb1000rider]

I rarely encounter them in my day to day although I'm not frequently downtown where I've encountered more. The city government doesn't care for guns or knives sadly.

And they have ordinances that fly in the face of the constitution as well as government code:

Government Code 229.001(a)(1), which states: “a municipality may not adopt regulations relating to…the transfer, private ownership, keeping, transportation, licensing, or registration of firearms, air guns, ammunition, or firearm.”

San Antonio is closer to New Jersey than the rest of Texas. Be careful.

[mojo84]

San Antonio politics are pretty much controlled by progressive democrats and progressive republicans. Cronyism rules and it doesn't surprise me there quite a few 30.06 signs. However, I have yet to encounter one in SA.

[Keith B]

I rarely encounter them in my day to day although I'm not frequently downtown where I've encountered more. The city government doesn't care for guns or knives sadly.

And they have ordinances that fly in the face of the constitution as well as government code:

Government Code 229.001(a)(1), which states: “a municipality may not adopt regulations relating to…the transfer, private ownership, keeping, transportation, licensing, or registration of firearms, air guns, ammunition, or firearm.”

San Antonio is closer to New Jersey than the rest of Texas. Be careful.

Most of their ordinances were adopted in 1995 or 1996 when L was brand new and they were trying to stop CHL carry in city buildings. A lot of them are now outdated and never have been removed. Much of the preemption code for the state was put into place after CHL was legalized to stop those local ordinance prohibition attempts. So, they really need to update their ordinances in accordance with state law, but we all know they aren't gonna do that unless pushed to edit them.

[joe817]

Most of their ordinances were adopted in 1995 or 1996 when L was brand new and they were trying to stop CHL carry in city buildings. A lot of them are now outdated and never have been removed. Much of the preemption code for the state was put into place after CHL was legalized to stop those local ordinance prohibition attempts. So, they really need to update their ordinances in accordance with state law, but we all know they aren't gonna do that unless pushed to edit them.

Indeed. Thankfully there is a new bill that has been introduced to address just that. I hope it sails through the Legislature.

[AlaskanInTexas]

Day two. Three more.

[C-dub]

Are you putting these in Texas3006.com? Or checking to see if they are already in there?

[AlaskanInTexas]

Are you putting these in Texas3006.com? Or checking to see if they are already in there?

Taking pics; will check later. I'm with a bunch of people and have little control of where we go. Hence, the guns are left in the hotel room.

[jayinsat]

I've been carrying a couple years now and have lived in San Antonio since 1992. I am not encountering this plethora of 30.06 signs you all are talking about. I look pretty hard at all the buildings I enter, and I enter a lot, and i'm not seeing these signs.

BTW: My wife and I had BBQ at a great place right next to the San Antonio zoo last saturday, Augies BBQ. They give CHL'ers a 10% discount. Posted prominently on their counter.

[VMI77]

I have only seen three 30-06 signs in DFW over the last eight years. One afternoon in San Antonio and I have seen five. Maybe I am getting a bad sample size, but it appears that it's a lot more tricky to carry down here. Would have expected the opposite.

Methinks you know little about the political and demographic makeup of San Antonio then. If the SA City Council could ban all guns, they would.

They probably are not the only city that would if they could.

Yup. Austin is another, and most of downtown Houston would too. I'm grateful for state preemption laws. Would be even more grateful if those laws had teeth.

I guess I must just naturally gravitate towards places that are not unfriendly for gun owners because I travel around Austin more than any other city in the state and I've only encountered one 30.06 sign at a place I want or have to go to --and it's a place I have to go to as part of my job. I haven't encountered a single place in Austin I wanted to go to that has a 30.06 sign. And since with that one noted exception for work, since I only go to places I want to, I haven't seen but the one 30.06 sign in Austin.

And I hear SA is not gun friendly too, but while my travel there is much more limited, I never seem to end up anywhere that has a 30.06 sign when I do go. Same with Houston. It will happen some day I suppose, but my wife knows (and agrees) that we're not spending money at any business that openly proclaims it doesn't like guns, so there's no point in asking me to leave my gun in the car.