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Well, it may turn out to be a good thing for us (citizens and gun owners both) in the long run. A lot of people who never thought about guns either way get tickets every year. Most people have very little faith in traffic courts or fighting tickets, so they just pay them without thinking about it. After all, we all know the consequences of tickets, right? You just get to pay higher insurance bills.

This warning will let everyone know that for some tickets, there are other consequences. Many of these people who do not own guns and don't care if you do have never considered the loss of gun rights. They probably think of felons when they say criminals should not have guns. This will eventually get through to their awareness that there are a lot of people considered criminals who really did nothing wrong. It may get them to start thinking more about when people should lose any of their rights, including guns. If we are really lucky, it will get more people to start thinking about other consequences besides the immediate fine. Then they will start fighting more tickets, or at least fighting for better courts. Any of these possibilities is a benefit to all citizens int he US and Texas, and especially to gun owners.

ELB wrote:However, as a bureaucratic procedure, the cops in one particular department are issuing the admonishments with ANY Class C citation they write so they don't have to work through the decision "Do I have to give an admonishment for this particular citation?" on the spot. Write a citation, attach an admonishment. Simple. If applies, then good. If not, then it's just another piece of paper.

Just wanted to clarify this a little. The new law is actually requiring this admonishmnet to be printed on all class C tickets. It is not the department doing it to save decision problems. The law was probably written this way to avoid mistakes on the decision process, but it is the law for it to be on all tickets.

The really confusing part is not that the law does not go on tickets for PI, but that you cannot legally (according to this section) issue a ticket for PI. Any ticket gets the warning and traffic violations are actually class C misdemeanors, so they get it to.