But Texas was one of only six states with an outright ban on so-called open carry, and advocates have fought to be allowed to keep their guns in plain sight. Cast as an important expansion of the ...

While Texas gun stores foresee a great fortune with a "constitutional carry" bill poised to pass the state legislature, a police officers' union is looking at the challenges the law poses.

FORT WORTH — Even in a city that calls itself the place where the West begins, you can look all afternoon and not see a pistol-packing civilian, despite a new state law allowing open carry of ...