Are these the provisions you are talking about?
I don't know about you, but I can live with those.
Posted on 05/05/2021 7:26:01 PM PDT by crusty old prospector
AUSTIN, Texas — Texas would allow people to carry a handgun without a license, and the background check and training that go with it, under a measure approved by the state Senate on Wednesday.
Texas already has some of the loosest gun laws in the country and has more than 1.6 million handgun license holders. Lawmakers have reduced classroom and shooting range training requirements over the last decade, but had been reluctant to eliminate the license requirement altogether.
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My brother just reminded me the other day on FB of himself and his friends riding their bikes out to the pastures to go rabbit hunting with the rifles slung across their handlebars.
My brother did get shot once with shotgun pellets when one of his buddies got too excited about seeing whatever it was they were hunting. But they were minor injuries and the other kid was mortified! [and probably grounded]
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Thanks
In 2019 they removed a lot of the racist talk, but the state still does it with anti-constitutional carry.
Please pray this passes.
Yeah, we had several close calls ourselves. We still have most of our fingers and toes. When we were dove hunting, we would purposefully shoot our guns in the air and let the pellets rain down on us. Especially by a pond for effect.
It’s a bad idea, I think, to ever show yourself with a gun on Facebook or twitter. That will come back and haunt you. It doesn’t matter what you say today, tomorrow they’ll hunt you down.
Boys are crazy people. LOL!
Probably is, but I do have a few that were taken at the TexasCowboy Memorial Shoots. But...oopsie...my guns fell overboard. ;)
The sheriff of my county endorses it.
Interesting, in Texas in the late 1860s during Reconstruction, one had to prove they were a “Traveler,” passing from one area, or town, to another to legally carry a firearm.
“Our instructor was my Biology teacher and a former Marine...”
Okay, I’m officially jealous!
A former Marine as a firearms instructor. I bet he watched you with eagle eyes. No mistake/wrong action missed.
Did he pass out praise with the same vigor he handed out “demerits”?
The only question is if the House can approve it with the amendments in time - the additional amendments may be a poison pill tactic to run the clock out.
I remember some sort of law like that when I was in college. Seems like you had to be traveling at least two counties away from your residence to have a gun in the front of the car.
He was very fair but an infraction of any rule, especially how to hold the rifle when moving around with it, was dealt with immediately. I earned the National Rifle Club’s sharpshooter’s medal with bars under his tutelage. We also went to other towns for contests.
Again...no one was shot. Ever.
Gun rights and ‘self defense’ rights in TX are incredibly vague so they’ll nail you. Just how it is, even if you can already legally carry in your car. They’ll screw you.
Yeah, they really aren’t your friends when it comes to a defensive shooting. A lot of people have been sent to jail for otherwise justified shootings because they said the wrong thing (in error, in excitement, under stress, etc., or worse tried to correct an erroneous statement) to officers on the scene and that was enough to get them charged and convicted.
The two things to remember if you have to shoot someone is to say as little as possible on the phone (where you are being recorded) until the cops physically arrive. At which point, you tell the officers that you do not feel well and need medical attention, and that since you do not feel well you will not make a statement without a lawyer. Then stick to that - take the ambulance ride and call your lawyer.
Honest cops these days tell people that refusing to speak without a lawyer is not indicative of guilt as it was considered in the Prime Boomer Era and before. These days it is indicative that the person isn’t an idiot and doesn’t want to be hit with a process charge or similar when they didn’t do anything wrong.
Are these the provisions you are talking about?
I don't know about you, but I can live with those.
That depends on what part of Texas. I’ve had a shooting incident in Dallas and it wasn’t too bad. The many hours in the police station being interrogated weren’t a lot of fun, though. (I didn’t have a specific lawyer I could call at that time. I do now.)
I don’t know, your picture is broken and I am unable to determine if I can live with the broken picture. :P
I heard Dallas wasn’t so bad, but others are damn ruin life bad. It’s luck of the draw and how you want to deal with it.
That seems reasonable. Although I’d give felons of any type their rights back after their sentence/fines are served.
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