Posted on 05/21/2021 6:41:36 AM PDT by marktwain
Texas Second Amendment supporters have been working hard to pass Constitutional Carry in Texas for several years. The leadership of the Texas Republicans has been hostile to the idea, even though Constitutional Carry was one of the top planks in the Texas Republican Party platform. Changes in leadership, by resignation or removal in primaries, made passage plausible in 2021.
A new Republican Party Chairman, Allen West, pushed hard for passage. Speaker of the House, Dade Phelan supported it. It passed the house, 84 to 56 in mid-April. Lt. Governor Dan Patrick (who controls the Texas Senate) and Governor Greg Abbot got on board. It passed the Senate, with all 18 Republicans voting for it. All 18 votes were needed, as required by the Texas Senate filibuster rule.
On Wednesday, 12 May, the House rejected the amendments attached to HB1927 in the Senate and moved to send the bill to a conference committee to work out the differences.
Speaker of the House, Dade Phelan, immediately appointed five members of the House, including Representative Schaefer, the sponsor of the bill, and Representatives Burrows, Canales, Guillen and White.
On 13 May, in the afternoon, Lt. Governor Dan Patrick appointed five members of the Senate to the Conference Committee. They are Senators Schertner, Birdwell, Campbell, Creighton, and Hughes.
The members of the Conference Committee all voted for HB1927. This shows both Speaker of the House Dade Phelan and Lt. Governor Dan Patrick, who runs the Texas Senate, are serious about passing HB1927 and getting it to Governor Greg Abbott, to sign into law, this session.
(Excerpt) Read more at ammoland.com ...
If this is to get done, they need to do it.
I am afraid to say, the communist democrats are masters at stalling until it is too late.
So in opposite news, if “leadership is confident”, it’ll die. Like that Geico fisherman. “Ohhhh you almost got it”.
Free men don’t ask permission.
Seems strange that in ‘liberal’ NE Maine, Vermont and NH are no longer on the ‘mother may I’ . However, TX is still messing about with, what seems, a simple decision. Why is that? I’m puzzled....
Vermont has had Constitutional Carry since it became a state.
New Hampshire is not Liberal.
The big Texas cities tend to have very leftist cores.
In the case of Texas, we know precisely when the right to bear arms was taken away. It was on 5 July 1869, when the Texas Constitution of 1869 was ratified. The right to bear long guns was restored on 15 February 1876. The right to bear handguns was never restored.
Texas was born in revolution, with many similarities to the American Revolution, only 60 years after the American declaration of independence in 1776. In 1835, Santa Anna and a new Mexican government assumed absolute power and overthrew the existing liberal Constitution. Texans decided to fight to maintain their rights, along with several other Mexican states. As with the United States, the initial skirmish occurred with an attempt to confiscate weapons. Texas was successful in its bid for independence and wrote its first constitution in 1836.
The Texas Constitution of 1836 had a strong right to keep and bear arms protections. It came directly from the recent experience of the necessity of arms for the defense of self and the community. From the 1836 declaration of rights:
“Fourteenth. Every citizen shall have the right to bear arms in defence of himself and the Republic. The military shall at all times and in all cases be subordinate to the civil power.”
In 1845, Texas joined the United States. Texans approved of a new state constitution. It contained a very strong right to keep and bear arms. From the Texas Constitution of 1845, considered one of the best ever written:
SEC. 13. Every citizen shall have the right to keep and bear arms in the lawful defence of himself or the State.
The right to arms was considered to be so strong in Texas, the Texas Supreme Court wrote the right to keep and bear arms for self-defense was absolute. From Clayton Cramer, quoting Cockrum v. State, 1859:
This is an excerpt of the article on AmmoLand.
It’s dead Jim.
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