Gun Bill Saturday - May 4th

[jerry_r60]

I know we have an option to email our representatives from their websites. Does using the email facility on the representative's site carry the same weight as a phone call, letter or fax?

[hillfighter]

If we can't get 3218 this year, I can't vote for any Republicans next year.

This is the first attempt at a bill that is controversial, so I'm not surprised.

True that, but it's third or fourth go around for campus carry.

If the Republican majority can't finally push through that table scrap this year, they don't deserve my vote. To be crystal clear, I'm saying if I can't legally carry at night class in 2014, I'll write in Santa Claus before I vote for anybody who chooses to affiliate themselves with the party that kills campus carry in back room meetings.

[RPBrown]

Is it just me or does anyone find it a bit ironic that these bills are goig to calenders on the Saturday of the NRA convention?

[hillfighter]

Is it just me or does anyone find it a bit ironic that these bills are goig to calenders on the Saturday of the NRA convention?

I hope every NRA member in Texas takes the committee's actions tomorrow very personally, however they vote.

May the Fourth
Be With Us!

[baseballguy2001]

@jmra -- From 1836 to 1995 ... Fantastic, it only took 159 years to gain our Concealed Handgun License rights using the incremental approach. /sarcasm off

I know politicians don't stick their neck out for anybody, and things being the way they are, our gun rights here have probably peaked. I'm not ungrateful, quite the opposite. But with twenty years of data with us, when all the grabbers told us the streets will flow with blood because of all the road rage shootings, (that didn't happen) it should be a no brainer that 3218 would pass overwhelmingly. I've called, emailed, written all my reps, they all say they support CHL's and the 2A, I'm sure you guys have too, time to face reality, we're stuck.

[jmra]

You're a glass half empty guy aren't you.
Look at the progress made over the last 25 yrs. Good people have put together an incredible plan and its working.

[SewTexas]

several of you seem to be blaming the Republicans as a party....I'm sorry, but I'm blaming one man, and one man only, Strauss. He's why most of these bills aren't coming up for a vote.

[Lucky]

@jmra -- From 1836 to 1995 ... Fantastic, it only took 159 years to gain our Concealed Handgun License rights using the incremental approach. /sarcasm off

And it was a Democrat majority legislature that passed the law allowing CHL?

[nightmare69]

Someone post an update of what was and wasn't passed.

[warhorse10_9]

972 is up now
I just started watching.

465, 508, and 698 passed from what I watched so far.

[warhorse10_9]

Bunch of Dems raising points of order.

[RX8er]

Bunch of Dems raising points of order.

Yes, too many!!!

[RX8er]

972 is up now
I just started watching.

465, 508, and 698 passed from what I watched so far.

Are you meaning HB485? I don't think I have read up on 465?

[SewTexas]

those 3 were all honorarium bills, not gun bills

[G26ster]

972 is up now
I just started watching.

465, 508, and 698 passed from what I watched so far.

Are you meaning HB485? I don't think I have read up on 465?

HB 485 Relating to the amount of the fee paid by certain peace officers and veterans of the United States armed forces for a license to carry a concealed handgun; authorizing a fee.

HB 698 Relating to certain procedures for submitting legible and classifiable fingerprints with an application for a license to carry a concealed handgun.

HB 508 Relating to certain offenses relating to carrying concealed handguns on property owned or leased by a governmental entity; providing a civil penalty.