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gmsjs90 / Pixabay Texas will, in time, become a constitutional carry state, regardless of what some gun control fans may wish. For a while, it looked like it may not be this year, but it eventually made it through. Further, Gov. Greg Abbott has made it clear that he will make sign it. After all, he vowed to make the state a permitless carry state.
To that end, some anti-gunners are trying to dig in and get ready for that new eventuality.
In fact, a couple of bills have been introduced that some claim will try and blunt permitless carry . Governor Greg Abbott’s pledge to make Texas a “Second Amendment sanctuary” helped boost a bill that would make it legal to carry weapons in the state without a permit, a long-held goal of the gun lobby. After much back-and-forth, particularly from law enforcement who said it would make their jobs more dangerous and difficult, the bill is finally on its way to the governor’s desk. However, there have also been some surprising gun control measures that are looking like they might pass as well. First is Senate Bill 162 from State Sen. César Blanco (D-El Paso). A “lie and try” bill, it aims to make it so that people who are not allowed to carry guns are not able to keep trying to acquire them through repeated attempts. Blanco’s bill, which has now passed both chambers handily with bipartisan support, makes it illegal to receive a gun, even as a gift, while prohibited by law. It also makes lying on a background check forms a felony. The bill is in line with requests from the law enforcement lobby on the permitless carry bill, which would make it easier to disarm and confiscate people who own or carry weapons that do not have a legal right to do so. Approximately one-third of people denied a weapon because of a background check go on to commit another crime in the next five years. Whether the new bill will increase the rates of illegal weapon confiscation in practice is unknown, but it is […]
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