It's certainly your right to agree with williamsjp2004, even though he later recanted. It's also obviously your right not to wear it. It's a free country and a free State. But to avoid any confusion to my customers who want one but are worried, the design for this shirt has been run by both attorneys and law enforcement. It's not failure to conceal. It's not at all the same as going into a theater and yelling FIRE and if you carefully study both scenarios, it's easy to understand why not. We are actually allowed to openly admit that we have guns, own guns, and carry guns. Some folks will react badly to that, but that doesn't make it illegal. As to "us CHL holders" some of you apparently like to keep it a secret. Others of US (yes, of course I include myself in that number! Why else would I make the shirt?) don't mind if everyone knows. You don't speak for all of us.

Sure I can! I'll need to look up the section of law, unless you can send me the text of it. I'll post it as soon as I can!

William: Oh, I'm so glad!! Thanks so much!! (Will you be ordering one then? are you in Texas? I just made one for a lady in Kansas citing THEIR penal code instead, and I can do one for any state, if you like.

Williamsip2004: If you will re-read the message to which you are responding, you will see that Grapeshot referenced the FIRST amendment, not the second. The first guarantees us freedom of speech, while the second states that our right to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed. Speech does not have to be uttered aloud to be protected by the first amendment, therefore a slogan on a T-shirt is protected speech. Indeed, the wearing of any special clothing at all is considered "symbolic speech" and is protected the same as things we say aloud. Thus, when Grapeshot asked you "Ever hear of the 1st Amendment" he was pointing out that they cannot arrest you for saying "I am carry a concealed fire arm" ideally, according to the constitution. This shirt was created in Texas. It is true that Texas does have an issue with "failure to conceal" a weapon by someone who possess a concealed weapon, but admitting one has it, so long as one does not do so in a threatening manner, is not necessarily a failure to conceal. If I wore a shirt that said "I have a CHL" for example, of if I simply announced it, I'm not stating my intention to USE it, therefore I'm not threatening. "Failure to conceal" includes the outline of it showing through my clothing, but does not include if my jacket happens to blow open for an instant as I'm walking down the street. There are guidelines that say things using words like "reasonable" which is open to interpretation. Finally, by "displaying the fact that I am carrying a concealed weapon" it COULD be determined that I am actually carrying a concealed weapon. It is unreasonable to conclude that I am "threatened multiple people with the use of deadly force." The shirt does not say "I have a gun and I intend to use it" though it certainly COULD provided the word "should I find it necessary to defend my own life or the lives of my family members" immediately after it. As to your last statement that by admitting that I am carrying a handgun I am failing to conceal, that is completely erroneous. Your earlier statement that it COULD BE DETERMINED that I was failing to conceal is at least something that one could argue, but to openly state that I AM failing to conceal is to make a legal judgment that the court system would not likely make. Incidentally, before I created the shirt, I checked with both my husband (a lawyer) and with the man who teaches our CHL class. Neither one of them thought that there was an actual legal problem with it, though both did wonder if anyone might interpret it the way you are. In Texas, it is legal to carry a long-gun without concealing it, but if I strapped on my husband's deer rifle and took a walk, I would very likely be arrested. I would be released very soon after because I am not breaking the law (unless I'm in a particular city that has a city ordinance) but that doesn't mean some law enforcement officer would not THINK I was a danger and arrest me "just to be safe." It's something I have always considered doing and might actually act on when I am retired and have more time on my hands for being arrested and fooling with the court system. Meanwhile, if you don't want one of these shirts, simply don't buy it. Better still, buy one and wear it when you AREN'T carrying just to mess with people. Let people accuse you of having failed to conceal. Let the police search you and not find a firearm. Then go after them for illegal search and seizure. It'll be fun.