Midnight Deadline Looms on SB 11: Urge House Members to Pass Campus Carry Legislation

By Justin Stakes

Fairfax, VA -(Ammoland.com)- During the years in which the Texas Legislature has failed to pass campus carry legislation, high-profile shootings have occurred at the University of Texas at Austin and just blocks from the Texas A&M campus in College Station.

A multiple-stabbing incident in which more than a dozen people were wounded took place at Lone Star College’s Cyfair campus. These locations – currently classified as “weapons-free zones” – are simply places where Concealed Handgun Licensees are rendered defenseless against criminals by Texas law. Senate Bill 11, sponsored by state Senator Brian Birdwell (R-Granbury) and state Representative Allen Fletcher (R-Tomball), would remove those restrictions in Texas law that prohibit law-abiding, adult Concealed Handgun Licensees from protecting themselves on college and university campuses.

SB 11 passed the Texas Senate more than two months ago.

Since that time, it has been used as a bargaining chip on completely unrelated legislative business and left until the last possible moment for consideration by the House. Now, it risks defeat because of a lack of time left in the session, or being severely gutted in the interest of expediency.

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