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* Follow along - three different sections of the Texas Penal Code:
1. You shall not carry a pistol on or about your person.
2. The foregoing does not apply to travelers,
3. Persons in their cars are travelers.
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Convoluted, yes.
'Traveler' routinely interpreted as crossing at least 2 county
lines. Equally meaningless, since that could be a matter
of feet depending on where you start and end.
Another portion of the law said 'carrying large sums of money'.
Also undefined. I had a store once and saw guys coming in fresh
from a couple of weeks offshore on a rig with thousands in cash
in their wallets and no thought of it. My store receipts may not have
been much over what I started the day with, but I carried on the daily
trips to the bank. And in those days, if I had 40 bucks in my wallet,
that was a large sum to me. Go figure.
><clip> ...for that is how they bankroll the budget.
And then there was (edited here) Kendleton (59S).
-J