Posted on 02/24/2015 1:38:28 PM PST by Q-ManRN
Earlier, we alerted you to HB 195, a “constitutional carry” bill that allows all law-abiding citizens in the state to carry as a matter of right -- without having to submit to any obnoxious background checks or waiting periods.
The bill is stuck in committee, as is its Senate counterpart, SB 342.
But the beauty of HB 195/SB 342 is that they would actually accomplish BOTH objectives -- establishing constitutional carry for BOTH open and concealed carry.
ACTION:
(1) Urge your state Representative and Senator to cosponsor and support HB 195 and SB 342. By clicking on the link here, the proper legislators will be automatically selected, and you can send a pre-written letter to them.
(2) Call Senator Joan Huffman’s office at 512-463-0117 and ask her to bring up SB 342. Sen. Huffman is the Committee Chairman of the State Affairs Committee. You can email her at joan.huffman@senate.state.tx.us
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Ping! Texans unite so you can protect yourselves without getting permission from the government first.
Bump that.
is anybody else in HD92 ?
“I have come to believe GOA does more than NRA”
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That’s not fair. The NRA has been a proud support of Harry Reid for years.
NRA is to gun owners what Al Sharpton is to blacks.
NRA is a multi-million dollar business. They don’t want to end the debate they want to capitalize on it.
Stuck in committee in Texas? Isn’t that the freest state in the Union?
This tells you all you need to know about how the elites in both parties really feel about the hoi polloi.
LaPierre would lose his million dollar salary.
The Texas House is dominated and effectively run by the minority Dimocrats, who, together with a fair number of clueless Republicans, including Denton County’s own Tan Parker and the doubly-clueless Myra Crownover, voted to elect Joe Strauss Speaker. Strauss, who defines “Republican in Name Only,” routinely fills critical committee chairs with his Dimocrat cronies; thus, anything the Dims don’t like rots in committee.
The only question is, “Why do we continue to send the clueless and the RINO to Austin?”
Beats the hell outa me, but I am going to work full-time for the defeat of both Crownover and the amiable Tan Parker next election.
Most of the bill is a matter of striking out existing parts of the code. Here's the money bit:
| ...The mere possession or carrying of a firearm, | ||
| openly or concealed, with or without a Concealed Handgun License, | ||
| shall not constitute probable cause for a peace officer to disarm or | ||
| detain an otherwise law-abiding person. | ||
Couldn't find who the current sponsors of SB 342 are. The senate website is klunky.
Of course the $$$ the permits cost play a part, as they do in almost all dealings with the state, and permits are just one more way to put the squeeze on our billfolds. Here in GA it cost me approximately $70 + or - for a 4 year permit, I don't remember exactly.
OK, you might say that's a small price to pay for the protection it affords myself and my wife. But if I look at it that way then all my other Constitutionally guaranteed rights can also be sold to me rather having been bought and paid for in the blood of the Founding Father's who gave us those guarantees over 2 centuries ago.
Just my take on the matter, others may see it differently and that's another right the state may some day decide to sell rather than acknowledge as a basic human right. I don't have to pay for the right to speak my mind, why do I have to pay to exercise my 2nd Amendment rights?
It’s a little higher here in TX, but I see it this way: the $70 (for the FBI background check) means I no longer have to submit to a NICS check when I buy a firearm.
That saves me time, and over 4 years, that’s only about $1.50 / month.
“There’s no valid reason for carry permits, people who don’t qualify because they broke a law somewhere aren’t going to be concerned about breaking another law. Such laws only make it more difficult for those who don’t make a habit of breaking laws reluctant to go through what is a usually lengthy investigation in order to qualify for a Constitutionally guaranteed right.”
The valid reason is that it offers us a stepping stone to get our rights back. We went from 1 State with constitutional carry in 1994 to five with constitutional carry today, and bills passing legislatures in at least 4 other states as we debate this.
We have not been able to get back everything in one leap, so we have to do it incrementally.
Good. We need to keep Texas free and make it freer. I need a redoubt.
Give piece a chance!
Stepping stone to retake what compromisers tried to give up? They (NRA) are some of the worst of all compromisers.
The NRA has willfully sought to keep cases from being decided that would confirm the unconstitutionality of having to get permits for Constitutionally protected rights. You have the right to carry in the Second Amendment.
” We have not been able to get back everything in one leap, so we have to do it incrementally.”
The NRA is behind this.
I mean you no disrespect as I know how much time and effort you put out to inform on gun issues but face it the NRA is a huge machine and that machine takes large sums of money to run.
They need to come out and force cases to courts that set a precedent that affirms the Second Amendment. They have not and they will not because they would become obsolete.
The NRA showed some backbone a few months back but that didn’t last long.
As I posted earlier;
NRA is to gun owners as Al Sharpton is to blacks.
Second Amendment Foundation is making lots of case law in our favor.
The NRA funded the Peruta decision in the 9th Circuit.
The courts simply refuse to hear “all or nothing” cases, or we lose.
The courts are not magical machines to get back our rights. We have to coax them, push them, make them see the light.
I wish we could make it all go away in one swoop. But we are a long from being able to do that.
Thank you for the heads up, Q. Lets get this done!
Let’s get it done.....(((ping)))
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