House Bill 910 would let Texans openly carry holstered handguns if they have a license.
Supporters say the measure is long overdue and would bring the state in line with much of the rest of the country. Opponents say it’s a bad idea because openly carrying handguns could intimidate many Texans.
Joe Straus have something to do with these delays??
But I'll take it for the nervous nellies that can't bring themselves to obey the Constitution as written.
And continue to push for Constitutional Carry.
/johnny
I don't like the license requirement, but it's a step in the right direction. Do we need allow allowing free speech by those who have a license? I was going to use freedom of religion as an example, but that God-given right is almost as endangered as the Second Amendment.
Opponents say it’s a bad idea because openly carrying handguns could intimidate many Texans.
There may be some foreigners (Californians and New Yorkers) who have moved to Texas and would be intimidated, but seeing a real gun would never intimidate a Texan.
LOL!
Texas currently has rotten carry laws. Its sad when such “comservative” states like Vermont, NH, and Maine have gun laws that are orders of magnitude better than those in Texas.
/johnny
No mention of the anti-gun gorilla in the room, Joe Straus.
Straus is the current Speaker of the Texas House of Representatives. While nominally a Republican, he is in fact a liberal Democrat. He has been repeatedly elected speaker by a small cadre of Republicans loyal to him joining with *all* the Democrats to elect him.
He has repeatedly blocked gun liberty bills, by not not allowing them to be voted on by the entire house.
“Rep. Trey Martinez Fischer, D-San Antonio, questioned whether witnesses who testified on the bill to allow licensed Texans to openly carry handguns were properly registered and recorded.”
When I got the text from someone on the floor, they said a technicality got in the way...
How it was allowed to get in the way, when the issue was fixed in record time, for this bill to come up again this week, smells like Strauss to me...
But I was told he was not much in the way like he usually is on issues like this...
All I know is that to give testimony, or speak before a committee is a fairly open process, you don’t just get to walk in and sit down and speak for or against a bill...You got to sign in, get in line, and be recognized...On a clear day...
If you are an “expert”, you are usually invited, and already have credentials and other published position papers on the subject and are usually scheduled to appear by the committee...
I’m surprised Fischer was even allowed to have his motion succeed in delaying the inevitable...
Remember the devil is in the details in HB 910...It needs to be studied...And any amendments to it need to be scrutinized to measure its effect on the overall carry issue in Texas...
Exemptions, exclusions, preemptions...If any...
I just spent a few days visiting AZ.
They have Constitutional Carry there and I didn’t see one person Open Carrying. It just isn’t a big deal there.
If you want to, you go right ahead. It’s enough for people there to know they can, same with Concealed. So much for that “it will be just like the Wild West” idiocy that Liberals always drag out when Open Carry is Legalized, just like they did in MS.
The People I visited came from CA years ago. Back then they didn’t own any Firearms, now all of them do. Nothing to do with CA at the time. Back then CA was full of Patriotic Americans.