I am new here and this topic has probably been hashed and rehashed for years but ...
Define "concealed". I am in GA and don't worry about it but I am close to FL and they seem to be strict about seeing the shape or outline of the weapon through clothing.
If I have my t-shirt covering the holster completly, is that concealed if you can still identify the buldge as a gun?
Thanks for the feedack ...
That's the ideal. Where, what and how does he carry, if you know?My favorite NRA Instructor has pointed to where he carries, and I've watched him on many occasions, but never had a clue he was carrying, even knowing exactly where to look.
I am new here and this topic has probably been hashed and rehashed for years but ...
Define "concealed". I am in GA and don't worry about it but I am close to FL and they seem to be strict about seeing the shape or outline of the weapon through clothing.
If I have my t-shirt covering the holster completly, is that concealed if you can still identify the buldge as a gun?
Thanks for the feedack ...
The fact is, we CC folks think a lot more about guns than do others. When someone that is not into guns sees another person, the first thing they do ISN'T to check them out to see if they are carrying a GUN! LOL!!
If you are wearing a Speedo and trying to conceal a small Kel-Tec P3AT, that might be a different matter. IT WILL look like a gun in a Speedo! LOL!
Other than that, I wouldn't be too concerned. If the gun is covered, it's concealed.
Exactly I agree 100% I think it gets to a point for those who carry (I know I do)
Every where we go we think that everyone is looking right at our belt or pocket or where ever the gun we have is ,
And I would be willing to bet that like you said they are looking and thinking more of why he is wearing blue pants with a brown shirt :sarcasticr why is he wearing flip flops with green pants or he has a lot of tattoos etc etc.:wacko:
you said it best If the gun is covered, it's concealed
That's the ideal. Where, what and how does he carry, if you know?
In Texas if you can see the out line of the gun, in other word if you can tell under you garment from the shape that it is a gun then it is not concealed. That is called printing.
I know what printing is, but If the gun is covered, it's concealed. Printing is a guncarrier term, not a legal one....at least that is the way I understand it to be. Are you saying that in Texas, the word"printing" is in the law there?
In Texas if you can see the out line of the gun, in other word if you can tell under you garment from the shape that it is a gun then it is not concealed. That is called printing.
A license holder commits an offense if the license holder carries a handgun on or about the license holder's person under the authority of Subchapter H, Chapter 411, Government Code, and intentionally fails to conceal the handgun.
A person acts intentionally, or with intent, with respect to the nature of his conduct or to a result of his conduct when it is his conscious objective or desire to engage in the conduct or cause the result.
"Concealed handgun" means a handgun, the presence of which is not openly discernible to the ordinary observation of a reasonable person.
Tex. Gov. Code § 46.035(h).It is a defense to prosecution under Subsection (a) that the actor, at the time of the commission of the offense, displayed the handgun under circumstances in which the actor would have been justified in the use of deadly force under Chapter 9.
What I am say is that even if it is covered if it is easy to tell that bulge is a gun by the shape of the imprint then it is not concealed and then technically could be in violation of the law. What is easily detectable most likely would be up to the officer. In Texas when they say concealed it means no one should know or be able to tell you have a gun on.
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