It certainly is relevant since it's common for legislators to engage in fact-finding and hold hearings to get input prior to making new laws. In fact, laws are generally enacted to address problems, and there was NO problem here because there was already a procedure in place for people who wanted to legally open carry or conceal carry a handgun. In fact, it was already legal for Texans to carry long guns without a permit. So, like I said, there was no problem here. This legislation is just being pushed through as a big FU to people and groups who would like to tighten gun laws to cut down in all the multiple victim shootings going on all across the country which seems worse now than ever.What they think is irrelevant.It might have been nice if the Texas Legislature consulted police officers to find out how they would feel about people without permits carry firearms in cars that the police officers stop on roads and highways for crimes like suspected road rage.Hopefully dozens more jump on the bandwagonThis has got stupid written all over it. But you've got to hand it to conservatives. When they march, they march in lock step since Texas would be the sixth state this year following Iowa, Tennessee, Montana, Utah, and Wyoming to pass a law to give citizens a right to carry a handgun without a permit, or training, or a proficiency test.Every American has the right to be armed. People who don't like guns are sissies and losers. Every real American love the feel of firing a weapon.
Texas Handgun Carry Bill Moves Forward, ‘US Constitution is My Permit’
LONE STAR RIGHTS: Texas Handgun Carry Bill Moves Forward, ‘US Constitution is My Permit’ | Sean Hannity
From Fox News:The Texas Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would remove permit requirements for people to carry handguns in public,...hannity.com
The Texas Senate on Wednesday passed a bill that would remove permit requirements for people to carry handguns in public, moving the bill one step closer to becoming law.
The Texas Senate version of the bill, passed on a party-line vote, according to FOX 4, differs slightly from similar legislation already passed by the state’s House. That means the chambers will have to resolve their differences or the House will have to simply adopt the Senate bill, though it is expected to eventually make it to Gov. Greg Abbott‘s desk.
“People are already allowed to have constitutional carry for long guns in the state of Texas. This just adds handguns, someone has to still go through a background check when they buy a handgun,” Abbott said of the bill, according to FOX 4.
Republican supporters of the bill noted that the bill does not change the requirements for people to buy handguns. It only removes the permit requirements to carry guns in public.
Regardless, passing this law makes a mockery of conservatives' claims of being a friend to the police because it will almost certainly result in even more shootings (and deaths) when armed drivers and passengers who may be high or intoxicated are confronted by police officers who pull them over for some kind of traffic infraction or the suspicion that a driver is operating a motor vehicle under the influence.