In Gun-Friendly Texas ‘Easier To Get Into The Capitol’ With Gun Than Without One

Posted by | January 1, 2016 20:00 | Filed under: News Behaving Badly Politics


The lines are much shorter if you have a gun, but that gun won’t stop you from getting into the Texas Capitol.

Texas is so gun-friendly that it is easier to get into the Capitol in Austin with a firearm than without one — licensed, gun-carrying lawmakers and members of the public have their own no-wait security lane, and the unarmed masses have to stand in line and slog through the metal detectors.

But on Friday, gun rights throughout the state expanded still more, as a new law took effect that allows certain Texans to wear their handguns in holsters on their hips — or in shoulder holsters, Dirty Harry-style — openly displaying the fact that they are armed as they work, shop, dine and go about their day…

For many pro-gun Texans, the arrival of open carry is not enough. Many of them did not support the open-carry bill but instead called for legislation for what they called “constitutional carry” — allowing Texans to display and wear their handguns regardless of whether they were licensed to carry a concealed firearm because, they argued, the Second Amendment gives them the right to do so. They are urging the passage of a constitutional-carry bill in the next session of the Legislature.

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5 responses to In Gun-Friendly Texas ‘Easier To Get Into The Capitol’ With Gun Than Without One

  1. allison1050 January 1st, 2016 at 21:47

    Let the good times roll in their state capitol building!

  2. Boltorama January 1st, 2016 at 21:56

  3. Tommie January 1st, 2016 at 21:59

    Hell, you can take them into bars, why not the capital building!

  4. rg9rts January 2nd, 2016 at 00:52

    And they had their first road rage shooting

  5. Viir Exeter January 3rd, 2016 at 15:31

    By gun nuts’ own actions, they now have more restrictions due 100% to their complete and utter FAILURE to GOVERN THEMSELVES, and act, responsibly. Stupid is as stupid does.

    In a classic case of a group hurting their cause more than helping it, approximately 200 gun rights activists demonstrated at Washington’s state capitol building on Thursday morning to ostensibly protest the passage of I-594, a law that expands background checks in the state. A large number of the demonstrators brought assault rifles and holstered pistols to the rally. Eventually, after a number of speeches on the steps of the Capitol, some of the activists entered the building with rifles and made their way to the gallery shortly after that morning’s House session had ended. A day after this display, Lt. Governor Brad Owen, a Democrat and President of the Senate, announced that openly carried firearms are now banned from the public viewing area. Owen pointed out that other forms of demonstrating are prohibited in the public gallery, such as applause, and they do not allow backpacks and umbrellas to be brought into the area. With that in mind, it would only make sense that guns are off limits.

    Lawmakers Ban Open Carry In Washington State Capitol After Gun Nuts Storm
    Building

    http://www.politicususa.com/2015/01/17/lawmakers-ban-open-carry-washington-state-capitol-gun-nuts-storm-building.html

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