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Texas just passed a bill to let people carry their handguns for a full week after natural disasters
CNN ^
| May 27, 2019
| Ryan Prior
Posted on 05/27/2019 2:07:20 PM PDT by deport
(CNN)Lawmakers in Texas just approved a bill that will allow licensed gun owners
to carry handguns in public for up to a week following a natural disaster.
It squeaked through the Senate 16-15. Now it's heading to Gov. Greg Abbott's desk,
as lawmakers close out this year's legislative session.
According to a summary, bill supporters don't want to be "forced to leave handguns
behind in vehicles or homes, where they could be at risk from looters."
(Excerpt) Read more at cnn.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Texas
KEYWORDS: banglist; carry; handgun; texas
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posted on
05/27/2019 2:07:20 PM PDT
by
deport
To: deport
How about a measure expressly permitting those with guns to open fire on ANY person attempting to take their gun after a disaster..?
That would “encourager les autres”.
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posted on
05/27/2019 2:10:24 PM PDT
by
gaijin
To: deport
Meanwhile we Missourians can open carry or conceal carry anytime. Go us!
To: Artemis Webb
Keep it and don’t let them take it away.
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posted on
05/27/2019 2:12:47 PM PDT
by
deport
To: deport
You need a “license” to own a gun in Texas?
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posted on
05/27/2019 2:13:39 PM PDT
by
skimbell
To: skimbell
From the first sentence
“a bill that will allow licensed gun owners .....”
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posted on
05/27/2019 2:15:30 PM PDT
by
deport
To: deport
Classic example of reporters writing on a subject foreign to them. Texas does not have a "gun license" - what the legislation refers to is the ability of people without a concealed carry permit to carry without it in a time of public emergency.
SOURCE. The argument was that not to do so risked the forced abandonment of firearms to any looters that might come along.
I prefer my state's approach: constitutional carry, i.e., the only permit you need to carry open or concealed is the 2nd Amendment. Serves to simplify matters considerably and I don't recall seeing any blood baths as a result.
To: deport
Open and/or concealed carry by residents OK in WV for 2 years now.....no permit needed.
Lone star state should get with the program.
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posted on
05/27/2019 2:24:31 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
To: Artemis Webb
Same here in Arizona ... the suggestion to pass a law allowing the shooting of anyone including LE who attempts to take someones firearm without due process is a very good one.
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posted on
05/27/2019 2:28:23 PM PDT
by
clamper1797
(We are getting close to the last "box")
To: Roccus
Oooops....make that 3 years
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posted on
05/27/2019 2:30:32 PM PDT
by
Roccus
(When you talk to a politician...ANY politician...always say, "Remember Ceausescu")
To: skimbell; deport
Um... no. The article is dumb. Probably need to just read the bill.
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posted on
05/27/2019 2:35:03 PM PDT
by
TheZMan
(I am a secessionist.)
To: deport
No license to own gun in TX just license to carry open or concealed on self.
No license needed to have one in the car.
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posted on
05/27/2019 2:36:12 PM PDT
by
Hang'emAll
(If guns kill people, do pencils misspell words?)
To: Billthedrill
That's an inexcusable error isn't it? The entire raison d'être of the legislation is to allow those without concealed carry permits to secure their weapons after a disaster without fear of breaking a law. Yeesh.
To: Artemis Webb
We’ll never get Constitutional Carry in Texas, at least not with our corrupt Republican Speaker of the House.
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posted on
05/27/2019 2:50:14 PM PDT
by
03A3
(FTNFL)
To: clamper1797
Interesting point,
I got it and I’m legal
Then PoPo wants to Take it,,,
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posted on
05/27/2019 2:51:33 PM PDT
by
Big Red Badger
(Despised by the Despicable!)
To: deport
I’ve carried concealed forever. With no licence except the second amendment.
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posted on
05/27/2019 2:53:11 PM PDT
by
W.
(NRA life member! Cost me 500 bones, but oh, well!)
To: skimbell
That was my first thought!
“Licensed gun owners,” indeed!
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posted on
05/27/2019 3:06:11 PM PDT
by
Taxman
(We will never be a truly free people so long as we have the income tax and the IRS.)
To: Artemis Webb
"Meanwhile we Missourians can open carry or conceal carry anytime. Go us!"Same in Arkansas. Texas needs to get on board.
To: deport
Texas is doomed. Illegal aliens have overrun the place and liberal are in charge just like in Colorado.
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posted on
05/27/2019 3:26:54 PM PDT
by
CodeToad
( Hating on Trump is hating on me and Americans!.)
To: Roccus
Open or concealed carry by ANY state resident in my state since 1791.
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