Stickland’s “constitutional carry” legislation would remove the licensing requirement for Texans to carry a handgun openly or concealed.
2A Rights
Campus Carry: Effective Today
The bill to allow handgun licensees to carry concealed in public university buildings went into effect today.
Demonstrated Deceit
What the Speaker’s office has not been willing to say is that they will not be appointing Anne Wynne to the TEC.
Straus TEC Appointee: NRA is “America’s ISIS”
Wynne re-tweeted a tweet calling the National Rifle Association “America’s ISIS” and asking for retweets if followers believed “it is time the [sic] we dismantle the NRA.”
UT Regents Openly Defy Texas Legislature and Attorney General on Campus Carry
Though lawmakers technically gave university regents the final say on concealed carry regulations on their respective campuses, it wasn’t anything akin to a blank check.
Texas DEMs Find GOP Ally in Effort to Curtail Citizens’ Gun Rights
Gun grabbers across the nation are doing their part to “never let a serious crisis go to waste” by pushing for gun control after five police officers were tragically killed at a “Black Lives Matter” protest in Dallas. In Texas, Democrats and a lone Republican are...
TXGOP Lists Legislative Priorities for 2017
Delegates to the 2016 Texas GOP Convention crafted the priorities for the 85th Legislative Session.
Nelson Spear: Ready for the Fight
Fighting to preserve conservative principles has long been a way of life for Permian Basin-native Nelson Spear. As a lawyer and passionate conservative, Spear has utilized his educational background, assertiveness, and drive to advocate for liberty-minded reforms and candidates.
Turner Administration: Issues To Watch
With Turner’s mayoral election behind, it’s time to take a look at some of the bigger issues that the vowed during the campaign to bring forward once in office.
Turner Against Open-Carry in Houston
State Rep. Sylvester Turner (D-Houston), a leading candidate for Mayor of Houston, has twice expressed his dissatisfaction with Houston being the largest major city where openly carrying handguns will be allowed once the law goes into effect Jan 1, 2016. At the Texas...