Legally yes you can. If the signage is absent or improperly posted it is legally invalid and you can carry on the premises. The problem is that few cops really understand the statutes including the TABC cops so if you are found to carrying in such an establishment as both of us say, you won't likely beat the ride.oohrah wrote: ↑Sat Mar 30, 2019 8:42 pmI think you missed my point - if it is a licensed 51% place, you can't carry there regardless of where their sign is posted, or if even if they didn't post the sign. It may be a defense to prosecution, but as you said, you may take the ride.WildRose wrote: ↑Thu Mar 28, 2019 5:23 pmBecause it wasn't lawfully posted outside the entrance nor inside the vestibule in a conspicuous/obvious place.
As to the next post, I reported it as a courtesy. You may beat the charge, but you can't beat the ride. Odds are very high that if anyone reported someone for carrying in there they'd end up cuffed, stuffed, and spend several hours at a minimum as a guest of the Lubbock PD.
Fortunately I have a couple of friends on the force in senior positions who could have interceded on my behalf and explained why the sign was illegal but the average guy wouldn't have.
It's funny that in a nation where it has been ruled time and again that "ignorance of the law is not excuse" that axiom is rarely if ever applied to those entrusted to enforce those laws.
This may be the wrong place to post but they put up new 30.06 and 30.07 signs where there were none before at Half Price books on Westhiemer Rd.I went there last weekend, there were no signs(never had been) and today there they were.