Okay, I'm writing this off the cuff, because I seem to remember that I stapled my TBPSPI handbook to a B7 target and emptied a Mossberg at it....
Bounty hunters in Texas fall under the jurisdiction of the Texas Board of Private Security and Private Investigators. A State Agency that is so hide-bound that I firmly believe they are still debating the phenomenon of fire.
TBPSPI allows for two exceptions to their 'no weapons' policy:
1) A Security Officer who is a)In uniform, b)under contract to stand guard at a specific location c)at that location, or travelling
directly to or from said location.
In other words, if you are going to your assigned post, and you stop at a 7-11 for a soda, you must leave your sidearm in the vehicle.
2)A licensed Personal Protection Officer who is a)in plainclothes b)standing protection duty over a contracted individual.
Once you begin a contracted service, your CHL is nullified as well. The CHL doesn't come back into play until you are no longer providing a contracted security service.
Nobody else under the authority of the TBPSPI may carry a firearm. Not even Private Investigators.
Anyone else under the authority of TBPSPI may carry mace or OC spray-- BUT!
Not if their company has purchased the spray for them!
Don't ask me, it doesn't make any sense to me, either.
LawDog
[This message has been edited by LawDog (edited February 22, 2000).]