Posted April 8, 2019 12:00 pm by Comments

By Tom Knighton

AP Photo/Ted S. Warren

More than once, I’ve mentioned how there isn’t a single state more thought of as pro-gun than Texas. While other states have done more to protect gun rights than the Lone Star State, few have the perception of being all about the firearm more than it does.

So why, then, did the Texas Speaker of the House declare constitutional carry dead? Well, it seems he didn’t take too kindly to how some activists sought him out.

Then again, I’m not so sure I’d blame him, either. After all, they came to his house.

Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen declared Friday that a “constitutional carry” gun bill was dead after a gun rights activist showed up at his Houston-area home to advocate for it.

Chris McNutt, executive director of Texas Gun Rights and a supporter of the legislation that would allow Texans to carry firearms without a license, showed up to Bonnen’s home in Lake Jackson on Wednesday to question why the bill had stalled, according to the Dallas Morning News.

Bonnen, a Republican, was in the state capital of Austin but his wife teenage sons were inside the home. He …Read the Rest

Source:: Bearing Arms

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