Walk It Through: The Handgun
Under 21 or a listed conviction, two cards for an officer, and the court that bars it.
An adult who owns a handgun wants to start carrying it away from home.
Two things a person in this spot might do. Picking one shows what the law says about it.
One owner and one handgun. Posted signs on private property, intoxication, and airports are not worked through here.
A practice walkthrough, not a prediction of how any real one will go. Legal information, not legal advice.
Words this turns on
Terms with a legal meaning that is narrower than the everyday one. Each links to the definition and the authority behind it.
- IntoxicatedEither not having the normal use of mental or physical faculties because of alcohol, a controlled substance, a drug or any other substance, or having an alcohol concentration of 0.08 or more.
- License to carryThe handgun license, which requires among other things being at least 21, six months' residence, and no felony conviction. A holder carrying a handgun who is asked for identification shows both a driver's license or state identification and the handgun license.
- Open meetingA regular, special or called meeting of a governmental body, open to the public except as the open meetings chapter itself provides. Notice is posted for at least three business days before the scheduled date.
- Protective orderThe order a court renders after finding that family violence has occurred, effective for the period it states, up to two years.