It looks like Texas is on the brink of signing into law new measures that allow Texans to carry handguns without license, training, or background checks.
The Texas legislature approved the measure Monday, sending it to Gov. Greg Abbott, who has said he will sign it despite the objections of law enforcement groups who say it would endanger the public and police.
Gun control groups also oppose the measure, citing recent history of mass shootings, including at a Walmart in El Paso, a church at Sutherland Springs, and a school outside Houston.
Texas already has 1.6 million licensed handgun carriers and some of the loosest laws in the country, and already allows long guns to be carried in public without a license. The new law would allow anyone age 21 or older to carry a handgun as long as they don’t have felony criminal convictions or some other legal prohibition in their background.
The National Rifle Association was among those supporting the measure, and a spokesman called it the “most significant” gun-rights measure in the state’s history.
“A right requiring you to pay a tax or obtain a government permission slip is not a right at all,” said Jason Ouimet, executive director of the NRA Institute for Legislative Action
Check out the NRA’s new message starring Louisiana Senator John Kennedy, in which they boasted it would “trigger the libs.” Indeed, it did trigger libs to implore the NRA to spend the extra $$ on copy editors.
Story was at AP.
