TX Gun Legislation

[Hayek'sPupil]

Looks like you won't be able to sell your firearms in the classified section for much longer. If you do, you're a criminal in the eyes of the state if this passes.

https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup...88R&Bill=SB370

[Walker]

Not much info on the link but it has to go to committee and get out of committee where my guess is it will die.

[El General]

Sarah Eckhardt. Big surprise.

[Adgerc15]

short sighted post...it won't ratify.

ac

[Texas Grown]

Sarah Eckhardt is a Democrat state senator from district 14.

The fish are biting and there's hogs to be kill-t. Gotta go!

[Mike D]

DOA


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[asu-indian]

Doesn't matter to me. I don't sell guns. I own probably 40 and have only sold one gun it my lifetime......it was a Mossberg. lol.

[DedDuk]

Originally Posted by asu-indian

Doesn't matter to me. I don't sell guns. I own probably 40 and have only sold one gun it my lifetime......it was a Mossberg. lol.

Thats the problem with people today. It doesnt affect me, go ahead and take their rights away.

[Mike D]

Originally Posted by DedDuk

Thats the problem with people today. It doesnt affect me, go ahead and take their rights away.

Yep.


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[tvc184]

This bill will likely not even get a hearing in committee.

Every session thousands of bills are filed but the session is only 140 days. The bills often have no backing, only one author and no co-sponsors.

A person running for office makes the claim, “If elected, I am filing a bill that says blah blah blah!!”. The people cheer…….

True to the person’s word, the bill was filed. It was then sent to a committee.

That is likely the last anyone will ever hear of it.

Every session I see bills filed that seem almost crazy. A member of the legislature can file any bill that he/she wishes. Getting it past the other 15 are so steps is entirely different.

[Pineywoods]

Won't ever pass here.

[tvc184]

This is a bill from two years ago that passed into law. It allows certain first responders to carry handguns. Look at the steps to pass.


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[tvc184]

This bill from two years ago was to make it a crime for a private a face-to-face sale at a gun show without keeping a record. Notice how well it was received. It was put in committee and that is where it ended.


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[softpoint]

It won't see the light of day. Y'all ought to see some of the anti-gun crap the noted scholar Sheila Jackson Lee..lol... has filed at the federal level. It never goes anywhere, either.

[muzzlebrake]

One thing you can be certain of is the anti's will keep chipping away hoping for a crack to develop somewhere. There is a lot of blue money coming into Texas to support and develop these cracks.

[Hayek'sPupil]

Originally Posted by Adgerc15

short sighted post...it won't ratify.

ac

short sighted huh? do you trust your government?

[Adgerc15]

Originally Posted by Hayek'sPupil

short sighted huh? do you trust your government?

Nope, but I do understand the process, this particular bill has no legs. I was not trying to be an *****

ac

[tvc184]

Originally Posted by Hayek'sPupil

short sighted huh? do you trust your government?

As long as the Republicans control the Texas legislature, yes.

The Texas legislature in the last session passed and the governor signed constitutional carry, told the federal government to kiss their butts on suppressors, allows people to store firearms in hotel rooms, quit restricting holsters for open carry (with or without a license) to belt or shoulder, removes the authority of local/county/state governments from restricting the transportation of ammo or firearms, etc.

So a single Democrat submits a bill. The same legislature that passed the bills that I listed (and there are more) aren’t about to start repealing those laws.

I posted an example already to show what it takes to pass a bill into law and gave an example of one that did pass and how many steps took and one that got no support whatsoever. It died almost as soon as it was submitted.

This will be an issue when the Democrats eventually take over. Right now there are likely several such bills and they are all probably dead on arrival.

[tvc184]

I say this in every session and will probably say it again this session…..

Wait until the media starts pushing news articles with similar bills like this. The headlines will say something controversial like…. Bill To Pass Legal Marijuana Use Submitted In Texas Senate

Then watch the comments on the dreaded Facebook. You would see many comments like, “great, what day does it go into effect?” or “it’s about time this law finally passed” or “I can’t believe this is a new law, how did it happen?”.

The answer is that it didn’t happen. The media uses it to get clicks and apparently most of the public has no clue how laws are actually passed. Stories like that might get 300 comments and 2000 clicks to read the story when in reality the bill will never get out of the first committee, much less the same bill in the other house committee and then to the floor of both houses.

It sure makes for interesting headlines though.

[kaizen]

yep, "many a slip between cup and lip" in TX leg

[Acjigga]

Originally Posted by tvc184

This is a bill from two years ago that passed into law. It allows certain first responders to carry handguns. Look at the steps to pass.


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The picture is blurry. Will you post the link to the page where I can read this please?

[tvc184]

Originally Posted by Acjigga

The picture is blurry. Will you post the link to the page where I can read this please?

Sure. The details weren’t really important but just showing the number of steps it took to actually take effect.

https://capitol.texas.gov/BillLookup...7R&Bill=HB1069

These “submitted” bills are many times meaningless.