2025 TX Legislative Session

[LSUTiger]

https://youtu.be/X0BDdaE10ow?si=ZjkewKC4vjQjeMLY

[LSUTiger]

Guns

Nov. 12, 2024 at 4:53 p.m.

Texas lawmakers filed competing gun laws, with Republicans seeking to expand gun owners’ rights and Democrats trying to limit them.

State Sen. Bob Hall, R-Edgewood, filed a bill that would allow licensed handgun holders to carry a concealed handgun while on school district campuses, including at open-enrollment charter schools. Texas law generally bars people from carrying firearms on K-12 campuses.

State Rep. Cecil Bell, R-Magnolia, also filed a bill that would limit the civil liability of businesses that allow concealed handguns on their premises. Under House Bill 644, a person with control of a business would not be liable for any damages related to someone else lawfully carrying a concealed handgun.

San Antonio Democratic Rep. Diego Bernal, meanwhile, filed House Bill 834, which limits where a person may carry a firearm. The bill would make it a crime for people to carry a firearm, other than a handgun, in counties with a population of more than 1 million, unless the person is on their own premises, en route to their own vehicle or had express authorization to carry the firearm in someone else’s premises.

Democratic lawmakers also filed several bills regulating the sale of firearms at gun shows. Those laws would make a person criminally liable if they sell a firearm without complying with the National Instant Criminal Background Check. It is unlikely for proposed restrictions on gun owners to pass in the Republican-controlled Legislature, which has historically blocked any attempt to curtail gun rights.

https://www.texastribune.org/2024/11/12 ... ls-filing/


Any other gun/2A legislation we need to be aware of? Support? Oppose?

[carlson1]

Would love to see all Prohibited Places removed. It doesn’t hurt to hope.

[ScottDLS]

Would love to see all Prohibited Places removed. It doesn’t hurt to hope.

They'll get right on that after they fix the State Fair and Dallas Zoo issues...

[Grayling813]

Just more of the same old tired playbook from the Communist wing of the UniParty.

[ajwakeboarder]

They'll get right on that after they fix the State Fair and Dallas Zoo issues...

The State Fair is a big one for me. I've gone every year that i've been in state since i was 16. I won't go back if I can't defend myself and my family.

[carlson1]

Would love to see all Prohibited Places removed. It doesn’t hurt to hope.

They'll get right on that after they fix the State Fair and Dallas Zoo issues...

Whatever you do please do not having any positive attitude on anything.

[ScottDLS]

Would love to see all Prohibited Places removed. It doesn’t hurt to hope.

They'll get right on that after they fix the State Fair and Dallas Zoo issues...

Whatever you do please do not having any positive attitude on anything.

The history of changes to the law starting with permitless handgun carry has been one of reduced rights for LTC holders (from what they had previously) and more restrictions on long guns.

[LSUTiger]

https://youtu.be/MDrQVOMDBQc?si=3IB4HsOXyWH3ZZY0

[LSUTiger]

GOA Bill Tracker

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/u/ ... 1923283781

[carlson1]

SB83 Employees only. Good, but why not all LTC holders? I guess baby steps as they say.

[rtschl]

The Texas Senate State Affairs Committee has passed Senate Bill 1065 — a measure prohibiting lessees of publicly owned property from creating gun-free zones.

https://www.nraila.org/articles/2025041 ... -committee

[Grayling813]

Free speech dying in Texas thanks to former speaker Phelan. Only 40 reps voted against this travesty.

https://texasscorecard.com/state/texas- ... tion-bill/

The Texas House has approved legislation by former Speaker Dade Phelan that would criminalize the distribution of altered political media, such as memes, videos, or audio recordings, unless they contain a government-mandated disclaimer.

I understand that there will be plenty of excuses for this such as "it doesn't stand a chance to pass the Senate", etc. The bad part that a great majority of Texans should be angry about is the fact that the representatives of the government of Texas are trying to suppress speech they don't agree with or hurts their little feelings.

I predict fake R Phelan is going to see a lot of memes directed at him in the coming months/years.

[srothstein]

The bad part that a great majority of Texans should be angry about is the fact that the representatives of the government of Texas are trying to suppress speech they don't agree with or hurts their little feelings.

Well, if it helps to understand it, a big part of the problem is that people aren't upset at Speaker Burrows giving positions of power to the Democrats and not getting very many of the Republican party priorities passed. The attack on free speech is an old Democratic priority, but it is working its way through the system anyway.

I am not a Republican and don't agree with some of their priorities, but my understanding of how the government works just says this is wrong. It proves it is the uniparty, not a two party system.