{"id":93312,"date":"2023-05-31T20:12:38","date_gmt":"2023-06-01T01:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=93312"},"modified":"2023-05-31T20:12:38","modified_gmt":"2023-06-01T01:12:38","slug":"93312","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/?p=93312","title":{"rendered":""},"content":{"rendered":"

Three Pro-Rights Bills Passed by Texas Lawmakers<\/a><\/p>\n

Three pieces of legislation backed by the\u00a0National Rifle Association<\/a> were passed by the Texas Legislature over the weekend and sent to Gov. Greg Abbott, who has already signed one of the measures.<\/p>\n

According to the NRA, the three bills are:<\/p>\n

House Bill 1760<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>which has already been signed into law, provides a solution to allegedly \u201croving gun-free\u201d school zones, which apply to school events occurring away from the school campus. This legislation limits \u201cgun-free\u201d restrictions to facilities actually owned and controlled by schools, or where high school, collegiate and UIL activities described in the State Penal Code (Section 46.03) are held.<\/p>\n

House Bill 2837<\/a><\/strong>, which is awaiting Abbott\u2019s signature, is designed to protect the privacy rights of people who purchase firearms and ammunition by preventing\u00a0financial institutions from requiring\u00a0the use of a\u00a0firearms-specific merchant category code (MCC)\u00a0when such purchases are made. This bill thwarts efforts by gun control groups to essentially separate gun and ammunition purchases from other retail buying with a unique MCC as established by the International Organization for Standardization. The NRA contends anti-gunners were looking for a way to create a defacto registry of gun owners, since the federal government is prohibited by law from doing so.<\/p>\n

House Bill 3137<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0prevents local governments (city and\/or county) from requiring firearm owners to obtain liability insurance, under the state firearms preemption law.<\/p>\n

The gun prohibition lobby portrays Texas as something of a no-man\u2019s land, and the media focuses on mass shootings there, while essentially supporting states such as California, with its strict gun laws, but which also has mass shootings.<\/p>\n

Anti-gunners were busy this session in Austin, where, according to NRA figures, there were a dozen bills aimed at so-called \u201cuniversal background checks,\u201d eight so-called \u201cred flag\u201d bills, nine bills proposing restrictions on magazine capacity, and a whopping 21 bills that would have placed restrictions on firearms or ammunition sales to young adults.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Three Pro-Rights Bills Passed by Texas Lawmakers Three pieces of legislation backed by the\u00a0National Rifle Association were passed by the Texas Legislature over the weekend and sent to Gov. Greg Abbott, who has already signed one of the measures. According to the NRA, the three bills are: House Bill 1760,\u00a0which has already been signed into … Continue reading “”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[79,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-93312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-government","category-rkba"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93312","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=93312"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93312\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":93313,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/93312\/revisions\/93313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=93312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=93312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/milesfortis.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=93312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}