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Texas UCW: Getting a Seized Weapon Back
After a Texas UCW arrest, police usually seize your gun. But, what happens to the weapon after the Texas UCW case ends? The answer is not very clear. Texas Code of Criminal Procedure 18.19 states the rules regarding what happens to seized weapons. Return of the Weapon if UCW Charge is Dropped As mentioned in one of our other posts, Texas UCW is usually "tacked-on" to another charge (such as Texas DWI). That said, a typical (but not guaranteed) result is that the State drops or plea-in-bar's the UCW as part of a plea agreement to the "primary" charge. When this situation...
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