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by Soccerdad1995
Tue May 08, 2018 12:56 pm
Forum: General Texas CHL Discussion
Topic: How's this idea for improving Texas firearms laws?
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Re: How's this idea for improving Texas firearms laws?

TexasJohnBoy wrote:This is important...
... if the law enforcement agency provides a gun locker where the peace officer can secure the license holder's handgun.
I sincerely doubt many police stations have this lock box.

And what if the entire station is posted 30.06 (for example College/Community College police stations)? At this point, you would be prohibited from entering any portion of the police station armed, and wouldn't even be able to get to the point of 411.207(b)...?
IANAL, but here is my lay person attempt at interpretation.

30.06 is not valid on government owned / operated property in general. So they need authority through another section to ban carry by LTC's. The code section quoted above gives the LE agency that authority contingent upon their provision of a lock box. If they choose not to do this, then they are choosing not to exercise their available authority to exclude carry, and any signage would be unenforceable. That said, I expect that you most definitely would be "taking a ride" if discovered to be carrying, but at least it would be a really short ride since you are already at the police station.

Lawyers - please correct me..

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