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der Teufel wrote:

Tracker wrote: . . . rough estimate but.... 1 in 20 Texans of primary shopping age are licensed to carry. And the fastest growing demographic of those licensed gun owners are women.
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It's to be seen how many businesses will turn them away. But I've said this before. IMO it'll be women openly carrying that will normalize the practice among the general population more so than men.

Intriguing, although not every CHL owner is in what you've categorized as the 'primary shopper' age group. There are quite a few over 65, I'm pretty sure. Also, not every CHL owner carries regularly. My wife has agreed to get her license, but I doubt that she'll carry. I'll work on that, but it may never happen. I suspect she's not alone. She will almost certainly never openly carry.

Still, next year should be interesting. I'm mainly hoping that the OCT/OCTC types don't hose things up for everyone else.

The Annoyed Man wrote:Back when CHL first passed, there was no 30.06 codicil, and so even if some business owner were anti-gun, he would not have been read up on being able to keep people out with a 30.06 sign. But, 30.06 signs have been in existence for a LONG time now, and the one thing that has kept more of them from being posted is simply that if our guns are out of sight, they are out of the business-owner's mind.

However, things are more politically polarized than ever these days, and the debates over open carry did not occur in a vaccum....... including details such as 30.07 signage since it is part of the law that was passed, unlike with original CHL law and 30.06. I wonder what impact that is going to have on the posting of signage. Will people who are motivated to post 30.07 signs also go the extra trouble to post 30.06 if they haven't already? Will they do nothing until the first time someone carries openly into their business? Will they carry on as before and do nothing?

Inquiring minds want to know. I'm guessing that there will be an initial jump in the rate at which sign postings get reported on texas3006.com (has Russell already claimed texas3007.com?), after which things will calm down. The reason I think this is that the sign postings will likely be in response to new open carriers who are doing it for the novelty of it, and that when the novelty wears off and they decide to prefer (not "eliminate", I mean prefer) CC over OC, they will OC less frequently, resulting in less frequent postings.

However, the "damage" will have been done as, once the signs have been posted, they are not likely to be taken down ever again. So the question that interests me is to what extent business owners will react this way.