AUSTIN – The Texas Department of Public Safety is no longer enforcing a state law that bars adults under 21 from carrying handguns in public. The change was...
The court order applies specifically to DPS and prosecutors in the North Texas counties of Fannin, Grayson and Parker.
“There’s only so much law enforcement that can be undertaken,” said Seth Chandler, a professor of law at University of Houston Law Center. “Given a choice between a law that’s clearly constitutional… and a law whose constitutionality is in doubt, they might choose to enforce the one that is clearer.”
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