Is coming to Texas on 1 September!
Governor Abbott is set to sign the bill sent forward from the Texas Legislature HB1927, which will grant Constitutional Carry in Texas. The link to the engrossed bill is HERE.
IANAL, don’t play one on TV either, but I at least read it, and I didn’t see any real poison pills in the bill. However, it does not obviate the need for License to Carry (LTC) if you are going out of state to one with reciprocity with Texas. An LTC also allows you to buy a weapon without waiting for NICS, especially if the 3 or 10 day rules go into effect.
Also, two 2A sanctuary bills are currently being batted back and forth between the Texas house and senate. House Bill (HB 2622), titled the “Second Amendment Sanctuary State Act,” and “Texas Firearm Protection Act,” Sen. Bob Hall’s (R-Edgewood) Senate Bill (SB) 513 is similar to HB 2622, but is more forceful.
In the form approved by the House, HB 2622 would only prohibit the state or local enforcement of a gun registry, a license requirement for firearm possession, background checks for private transfers, and any firearm confiscation or mandatory “buyback” programs.
Unlike HB 2622, which only applies to a specific list of potential federal firearm laws, SB 513 would prohibit the state or local enforcement of any new federal regulation “that purports to regulate a firearm, a firearm accessory, or firearm ammunition if the statute, order, rule, or regulation imposes a prohibition, restriction, or other regulation that does not exist under the laws of this state.”
Full article, HERE from the Texan News.
And Austin’s leftist descent into stupidity continues…
Austin ‘reimagined policing’, cut the PD budget by over $130 million gutting and throwing them under the bus.
For weeks, people experiencing homelessness have surrounded City Hall with their tents in protest of Austin voters reinstating the city’s camping ban.
Council Member Mackenzie Kelly tweeted that she was harassed as she walked out of City Hall on Monday. In the tweet, she said that she saw one man with a metal pipe and at least one knife, making her feel unsafe.
Full article, HERE from KXAN. I’m betting sooner rather than later, Gov. Abbott will send DPS in to take over from APD and actually enforce the law in Austin, because APD sure as hell isn’t doing it.
Constitutional Carry is a step forward I think. I just hope some idjit doesn’t go completely DERP and making the responsible gun owner look like a wannabe vigilante.
I’m not seeing the problem with city hall being surrounded by the homeless as long as they aren’t anywhere else. Maybe they could occupy it too. And since they can’t come to work we could fire all the city hall employees … should save Austin taxpayers quite a lot. Plus by firing them there will be no need for permits, zoning or other red tape so Austin will undoubtedly start functioning better. Might be a bit tough on the people who depend on payments from city hall, but them’s the breaks
But you’ll have blood running in the streets like we do here in Kansas! No wait, we’re not having that at all. Nice to see CC arriving in another state.
Alaska has had Constitutional carry (open or concealed) since the early ’80s, and no major DERP events thus far. Welcome to the club!
In regards to Austin? Elections have consequences. When the Austin government and PD fails the city the constituents can go look in the mirror.
Yeah! I will keep my Carry License even though it doe make me one of the first the Federal Government will come after when/if they try to restrict/confiscate/tax-out-of-existance guns and other arms. The question is how is the Federal Government going to violate the 10th Amendment and negate Constitutional Carry in all of the States that have it? Times are getting more interesting!
Nice to see my home state finally stepping up on this issue. I’m sure that when Gov. Abbott signs the bill, the howls of outrage from UT Austin’s elite and other Democrats will be loud and irrational.
We have been trying to get CC here in NC for some time, but the Democrats and the powerful NC Sheriffs’ Association (the latter of which collect CCH permit fees) object. But we’ve just gotten the Association to back repeal of the Jim Crow era Pistol Purchase Permit system here, so maybe we can get them to eventually support CC.
CC in Arizona works fine. Crime rates drop because criminals fear they’ll be blown up by their victims.
It’s so different from CA. You go into a store, select a firearm, they ring it up. The check takes about 5 min. and you walk out the door with your new gat.
Hey Old NFO;
Congratulations to Texas, Now more states need to join the movement. And Austin is lost, too many transplanted Californians and their voting patterns….like Locust.
Yet every time we here in Florida try to get CC, our RINOs from the Mijami area stab us in the back.
Doesn’t help that one of ‘our’ own people, big in gun commenting, screams and freaks like a little girl every time somebody follows the law and open carries while fishing and freaks the cops and the mundanes out (usually the only ones freaked out are some untrained badge-orcs (not real cops,) a socialist-sucking state attorney or two and the eneMedia.
We were first in concealed and ‘stand your ground,’ but it looks like we’re going to never get Constitutional Carry. Dammit.
HB 2622 passed both houses and is also on it’s way to the Governor for signature. https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup/History.aspx?LegSess=87R&Bill=HB2622
All- Thanks for the comments! Boyd- Thanks for the update, I didn’t have that. Ironically, the ones that ‘fought’ the bill here were the firearms instructors… sigh…
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Not ironic after all. It’s like the USCCA saying they support common sense gun control.
Or John Cena apologizing to the communists for calling Taiwan a country.
Fudds eventually show their true colors.
Blame Charles Cotton and his fear-mongering. He has been against every reformation that could possibly threaten his money stream, claiming that they would frighten the sheep and prompt all carry to be banned.
Kudos to him for being a mover in the initial press to get CCW to Texas. Now, can he please go find a corner in which to mold?
I’m with you 100%, Kermit. Cotton has been the biggest obstacle to gun rights in Texas for a long time, even though he claims to be pro-gun.
Beans- Point… dammit…
I wish Indiana would follw Teaxs’example
Rickey- One can hope!