The laws allow businesses and other private property owners to post signs banning open carry or concealed carry. And apparently a lot of places are posting both signs now, meaning that folk who were previously devoted to concealed carry are beginning to regret that the open carry folk "won."
'Weighing in again, the original poster, LTUME1978, felt that for Texas’s concealed carriers, the damage had been done. “The lid is off this can of worms and it will never go back,” reads a later post in the thread. “I hope the right to walk around looking like Wyatt Earp is worth it to the open carry folks because a lot of us are loosing our right to concealed carry and it may cost some of us our lives for your privilege to play cowboy.”
Last week, Charles Cotton, the NRA board member who moderates Texas CHL, weighed in on the public’s reaction to the new open carry law. “I truly wish that open-carry supporters would admit that they were wrong and that there is a problem,” he wrote in response to a post entitled “I now regret that OC passed.” “However, I won’t hold my breath. If I cannot carry my self-defense handgun into a store because they put up 30.06 and 30.07 signs, then someone’s ability to show their handgun to everyone will have cost me the ability to defend myself.”'
Have to say, feeling a bit of schadenfreude here.
Is Open Carry Backfiring on Texas Gun Owners?
The state’s new policy may be prompting some businesses to reexamine their concealed carry policies.
Tragic.