TEXAS HOUSE APPROVES OPEN CARRY LEGISLATION

  

The Texas House on Monday gave final approval to legislation that would allow holstered handguns to be carried out in the open.

The measure, House Bill 910 was approved 101-42, and will now go to the Senate, which has already approved a similar measure.

The author of the Bill, state Rep Larry Phillips, R-Sherman believes there will be mo problems with the Senate agreeing on minor differences between the new bill, and Governor Greg Abbott has indicated that he would sign the bill into law.

The bill will allow those will a concealed handgun license to openly carry the weapon in a shoulder or belt holster.

A prohibition against law enforcement stopping a person with a holster weapon solely to ask wither he has a license, was added to the House Bill on Monday.

Democrat Rep Rafael Anchia of Dallas attempted to add an amendment allowing large metropolitan cities to allow their own elections to decide whether to allow open carry, which would allow a rural standard and an urban standard, but the amendment was defeated 97-45.