License to Carry
House Bill 1177
As a result of compliance with a mandatory evacuation order, when leaving an area, Texans are allowed to carry an open or concealed weapon up to a week in public without a license. House Bill 1177, however, does not apply to you if you are prohibited by the state or federal law from possessing a firearm.
Before the bill was passed, during an evacuation initiated when a local, state or federal disaster is declared, it was illegal to have a firearm on your person without a license to carry. If people did not have a license, they either had to evacuate their homes and leave their personal protection behind or risk their lives if they chose to stay home with their guns. Laws previously in place provided what could have been seen as a loophole that allowed gun owners to keep their guns in their vehicles or watercraft during an evacuation. This bill was passed for people who thought they never needed to possess a license to carry because they never imagined they would have to carry their guns outside of their homes, and for the people that had their license to carry destroyed in a natural disaster.
The creation of the bill
There were concerns about the bill in general. One of them was about how it would add safety risks to emergency shelters. Bringing guns into any situation, especially an unstable
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