TX DAs and the law

Glenn, I don't know what the point is you are trying to make except perhaps to express surprise that the ACLU is highlighting this issue.

But I stole your link and used it in support of jury nullification in the JN thread. Thanks for bringing that here, and my apologies if I used your research to prove a point you don't agree with.
 
Good Stuff for out Texas members. I passed the CHL course but have never applied for a permit as I work on federal property where personal firearms are prohibited even if you have a CHL. Most of those counties where the DAs are hostile I would be driving through. I remember setting through a class in Police Tactics taught by a Captain of one of the local sherriff's department. He mentioned that in some cases with oral or written consent for a search the officer could come up short in court.
 
My points were that:

1. There have been people on various lists spouting that the new law changes enable you to carry in the car without a permit. I wanted to document that some DAs are problematic and you shouldn't be so trusting that the new law will protect you from some of them.

2. I want to encourage folks to get CHLs. I think it is a good statement and very practical. Just carrying in the car is a bad strategy, IMHO.

3. There are usually threads denouncing the ACLU. Thus I was a touch surprised when the TX bunch stood up on this issue. The national has usually not been sympathetic to the RKBA and I like that this happened here in TX.
 
3. There are usually threads denouncing the ACLU. Thus I was a touch surprised when the TX bunch stood up on this issue. The national has usually not been sympathetic to the RKBA and I like that this happened here in TX.
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The ACLU is generally "neutral" on the right to keep and bear arms, which is to say they subscribe the the interpretation of the second amendment that allows heavy regulation of firearms.

However, the situation in Texas is such that the legislation has passed a law regarding such restrictions, but DAs/LEOs are not honoring it. The ACLU believes that the state of Texas has the right to restrict or allow its citizens to keep and bear arms as it sees fit, and if a law is passed allowing certain privileges (such as carry in a vehicle) then the law enforcement community is required to abide by that.*

At which point this becomes exactly the kind of issue the ACLU would take up; citizens of a state are having the liberties granted by that state violated.

The ACLU may not hold to the same liberal interpretation of the second amendment that most of us do, but they will defend your right to keep and bear arms within the bounds set by your duly elected local government.

* - My understanding of the topic at hand is limited to a quick skim of the document, not an actual reading...but this seems at least to be gist of it.
 
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