[peyton randolph]

If Texas ever does secede, hope one of the first acts is to deport half of Austin. However, I suspect they will self-deport to a blue state.

[FlingWingFlyer]

On Tuesday he presented the committee with a petition with 346 signatures urging City leaders to ban guns in public places.

LOL! Buffoons. If only they had banned guns and killing people at Sandy Hook. We wouldn't be having this goofy "discussion".

sarc/

[Feckless]

Luckily. Texas conservative wrote the CHL laws with specific prohibitions against counties, cities, and state agencies passing conflicting laws and regulations.

The TxDOT HR manual was recently updated to allow employees to CARRY at work, not just secure weapons in their cars.

The mayor of Hanoi in the Hill Country and his commie buddies can piss and moan all they want.... I can carry anywhere state law says I can.

I only go to the San Francisco of Texas when I absolutely have to.

[JRandomFreeper]

Texas law is pretty darn clear that State law trumps all local firearms laws. Austin could be setting themselves up for a litigation lottery.

/johnny

[askrenr]

"On Tuesday he presented the committee with a petition with 346 signatures urging City leaders to ban guns in public places."

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Let’s think about this, the population of Austin is 820,611. This represents a whopping 0.044% of the city; the mayor should take notice of that!!

[rarestia]

"We are taking part in an important discussion that's going on at the national level," said Austin City Council member Mike Martinez.

BRAVO SIERRA!

So the ONLY reason they're having this "discussion" is because it's being "discussed" on the national level?

Liberalism truly is a mental disorder.

So because someone somewhere is discussing Honey Boo Boo, I believe we should discuss Honey Boo Boo as well.

Liberals are of a diminished mental capacity.

[DH]

First, Austin should be physically taken off the map and moved to California.

Second, a “secured” gun is useless when it takes time to “unsecure” it to protect your life when seconds matter.

Third, criminals don’t obey laws.

[txrefugee]

Not mentioned in this report was the promise by Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot to sue the City of Austin and Travis Co. if they banned gun shows. That’s what I like about Texas. (For those outside our borders, that’s the Dairy Queen theme song here:)

[showme_the_Glory]

Austin...... Just tryin to earn some street cred with their NY buddies.

[grobdriver]

"When the mayor speaks, he speaks for the City of Austin. He represents us," said Martinez.

Ha!
When the mayor speaks, most of us laugh.

These people are morons.

[Texan]

Austin police seized more than 780 guns through a buy-back program

If the guns were voluntarily sold, then they weren't seized. The quality of journalism is pitiful now days.

[Truth29]

""We usually respond after something bad has happened, rather than going into private homes and enforcing laws for citizens who fail to secure their guns," Mannix said."

Well, that's comforting (sarc/) since the alternative is a leftist wet dream of unannounced, warrantless searches.

[Joe Brower]

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Any time a firearms-related thread is created on FreeRepublic, please be sure to add the "banglist" keyword to it so that interested FReepers don't miss it. Just a suggestion.

Let Freedom Ring,

Click the pic to go to the Gun Facts v6 download page!

[TheZMan]

As a Texan and part-time Austinite, there is so much stupid in this one article that it hurts, and just about all involved can go to hell.

[Resolute Conservative]

I don’t live in Travis County but have to drive to Austin everyday for work. I call it the city of “Austism”. The oxygen thieves in Austin have no problem spending money on every stupid liberal idea that comes up. Bike trails instead of addressing the massive traffic problem, mass-transit money pits, arts in downtown area, green energy, junkets for city leaders to see how other European cities function, and a host of other liberal pipe dreams.

My office is right on the edge of Austin and another city and I make a conscience effort to always eat lunch and shop out of Austin. I avoid the town at all costs outside of work so they don’t get my money to spend on their stupid crap.

[ontap]

They asked Mannix what APD is doing to enforce gun lock-up laws in private homes. "We usually respond after something bad has happened, rather than going into private homes and enforcing laws for citizens who fail to secure their guns

Truth is this is nothing but a feel good law...it has no teeth in that even the Austin DA would not try to enforce it because it would be political suicide and secondly a fresh out of law school attorney would win the case since it defys the constitution in so many aspects!!

[556x45]

‘They asked Mannix what APD is doing to enforce gun lock-up laws in private homes.

“We usually respond after something bad has happened, rather than going into private homes and enforcing laws for citizens who fail to secure their guns,” Mannix said’

Wow, thats quite the statement!

[Ruy Dias de Bivar]

From the TEXAS Declaration of Independence from Mexico..

http://avalon.law.yale.edu/19th_century/texdec.asp

“It has demanded us to deliver up our arms, which are essential to our defence, the rightful property of freemen, and formidable only to tyrannical governments.”

THE RIGHTFUL PROPERTY OF FREEMEN! Even Texas understood it!

[Arrowhead1952]

On Tuesday he presented the committee with a petition with 346 signatures urging City leaders to ban guns in public places

Wow, that is epic fail in a city that has close to 1 million population in the city and surrounding suburban areas. Texas Attorney General Greg Abbot said he sue Travis Co. if they banned gun shows and he would see them in court.

[2nd amendment mama]

Ping!!!