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Try an ankle rig. Solves riding your bike, concealability while working, and its not locked up where you cant get to it when you need it.

Dan

Pocket carry is also a possibility, if you have a gun that will fit in the pockets you have and a pocket holster to hold it stable.

I wonder why this hasn't been suggested, but is there a reason why you can't just OC? The owner of the property (in this case your boss) can give you permission to carry however you like even if he is prohibited himself, and you then only need a holster with a retention strap to secure the weapon from your boss' "constructive possession". Even though he knows exactly where it is he's not going to get it away from you without committing a violent crime in the process.

Liko81 wrote:I wonder why this hasn't been suggested, but is there a reason why you can't just OC? The owner of the property (in this case your boss) can give you permission to carry however you like even if he is prohibited himself, and you then only need a holster with a retention strap to secure the weapon from your boss' "constructive possession". Even though he knows exactly where it is he's not going to get it away from you without committing a violent crime in the process.

This has been discussed several times before. There's no "permission" to give under the law. The only way that he would be able to open carry is if he were in control of the property, which he's not if the boss is there with him.

NcongruNt wrote:

Liko81 wrote:I wonder why this hasn't been suggested, but is there a reason why you can't just OC? The owner of the property (in this case your boss) can give you permission to carry however you like even if he is prohibited himself, and you then only need a holster with a retention strap to secure the weapon from your boss' "constructive possession". Even though he knows exactly where it is he's not going to get it away from you without committing a violent crime in the process.

This has been discussed several times before. There's no "permission" to give under the law. The only way that he would be able to open carry is if he were in control of the property, which he's not if the boss is there with him.

Then why is it that when you walk into MOST gun stores, all employees are OCing?

Target1911 wrote:Then why is it that when you walk into MOST gun stores, all employees are OCing?

Because no one has ever stopped them. That doesn't make it legal.

Remember: there's "illegal", and then there's "wrong". Sometimes they overlap; often they don't. OC on someone else's property with permission isn't legal, but it's also not wrong.

KBCraig wrote:OC on someone else's property with permission isn't legal, but it's also not wrong.

Can someone point me to the applicable law for this?

Photoman wrote:

KBCraig wrote:OC on someone else's property with permission isn't legal, but it's also not wrong.

Can someone point me to the applicable law for this?

Start at the top of PC 46.02, where it outlaws carrying a handgun on or about your person (no matter whether loaded or not, open or concealed). Then, drop down to 46.15, "Non-applicability", to find the exceptions to that ban. There is a long list, but "with permission" isn't one of them.

A CHL holder can only openly carry under the same conditions that a non-licensee could, such as sporting uses, hunting, etc. (Under those circumstances, a non-licensee can legally carry concealed.) A CHL openly carrying on someone else's property, even with permission, is guilty of PC 46.035, Unlawful Carrying of Handgun by Licensee, unless they meet one of the exceptions.