No Need For A Texas Permit To Carry A Gun

fmdog44

fmdog44

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Did someone push the Doomsday Button in Texas? See the most absurd, insane statement ever pertaining to guns in America. I'm a gun owner but this is beyond anything I thought I would ever witness.

"This bill, to me, is a restoration of the belief in and trust of our citizens," said state Sen. Charles Schwertner, R-Georgetown, who is carrying the legislation in the upper chamber. "We cannot allow another session to come and go where we pay lip service for the Second Amendment by failing to fully restore and protect the rights of citizens granted by the Constitution."
 

None of the northern New England states require permits to carry firearms. No sign of "Doomsday" here. Texas neighbors Oklahoma and Arkansas don't require them. In fact, I believe around one-third of the states don't require such permits.

Is there something unusual about the people of Texas that we should know about? ;)
 
Where I live we have fairly high standards to get a pistol license.

The County Sheriff's office has the ability to issue three different types of handgun permits and can take up to 6 months to approve an application/background check.

Carry Concealed
Possess on Premise
Carry Concealed Employment

The bad guys in this area usually opt out of the licensing requirement. ;)
 
Tommy said:
None of the northern New England states require permits to carry firearms. No sign of "Doomsday" here. Texas neighbors Oklahoma and Arkansas don't require them. In fact, I believe around one-third of the states don't require such permits.

Is there something unusual about the people of Texas that we should know about? ;)
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Houston's murder rate is up about 20% over last year for one! Add I don't think any state should permit open carrying of assault rifles. I don't give a rats *** who disagrees.
 
fmdog44 said:
Houston's murder rate is up about 20% over last year for one!
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Houston isn't alone....major cities, all over the nation...are seeing rising rates of murder and violence. The shutdowns caused by this virus, and the high unemployment numbers seem to be causing more and more people to go Nuts. In this area, both Kansas City and St. Louis are on track to set new records for murder and violent crime.
 
RnR said:
House Bill 1927 would negate the requirement for Texas residents to obtain a license to carry handguns if they’re not prohibited by state or federal law from possessing a gun.
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Why should someone that can legally own or buy a handgun be required to get another permit to be able to carry it ?????
I KNOW ... I KNOW....
To make things safer because it will keep people that CANT legally own a gun from carrying one... Right?????
 
fmdog44 said:
Houston's murder rate is up about 20% over last year for one! Add I don't think any state should permit open carrying of assault rifles. I don't give a rats *** who disagrees.
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An Assault Rifle is a rifle primarily designed to kill other humans, I do hope we can all agree on that.
Definition of Assault:

"a sudden, violent attack; onslaught: an assault on tradition.
Law. an unlawful physical attack upon another; an attempt or offer to do violence to another, with or without battery, as by holding a stone or club in a threatening manner.
Military. the stage of close combat in an attack.
rape1.
verb (used with object)
to make an assault upon; attack; assail."

Clearly an offensive weapon with the capacity to kill numerous people in a short period of time.

Need some enhanced personal protection? How about a nice revolver? I've carried one in he past, and it worked well in one particular incident, which I hope will never again repeat.

We all have a God given and Constitutional right to protect ourselves, there just shouldn't be instruments of mass murder available easily to every nutjob on the streets.
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One area that remains dark to me is the kerfuffle I hear in the news regarding high-capacity assault rifles.

If the second amendment affords citizens in the USofA the right to open carry and conceal carry, then any and all forms of firearms should be allowed, ghost guns included.

I see absolutely no difference in a citizen of the USofA walking out the front door of their home and down busy streets with a concealed semi-auto pistol under their jacket, vs open-carry, vs a fully auto machine gun slung over their shoulder. All should be allowed. No restrictions.

Taking my point a step farther, citizens in the USofA should be allowed to sling a bazooka over their shoulders and walk around freely if they so choose.

Three cheers for the second amendment!
 
Oris Borloff said:
Does anyone know what the legal definition of "bear arms is"? I don't know, I'm just asking. Or is this another thing that the Supreme Court would have to rule on?
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Nathan said:
The only provision is for having a well regulated militia, any other direction would need further interpretation.
https://www.loc.gov/law/help/usconlaw/second-amendment.php
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The Supreme Court already ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008 that a DC law prohibiting the possession of operable handguns in the home violates the Second Amendment; the ruling guarantees an individual right to possess firearms independent of service in a militia.

They're expected to hear New York State Rifle & Pistol Association Inc. v. Corlett Share within the year that addresses whether the Constitution protects a right to carry guns in public.
 
AnnieA said:
The Supreme Court already ruled in District of Columbia v. Heller in 2008 that a DC law prohibiting the possession of operable handguns in the home violates the Second Amendment; the ruling guarantees an individual right to possess firearms independent of service in a militia.
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That ruling only applied to D.C., since it was not an Incorporation ruling. Applicability to the States was ruled on positive in a subsequent case.
 
Life in Texas ....nothing has changed.
Rules keep changing, but people continue to do as they please anyway.
 

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