Knife Rights’ Texas “Location-Restricted Knife” Reform Bill Passes Senate

By Doug Ritter

Texas – -(AmmoLand.com)- After intense lobbying by Knife Rights Director of Legislative Affairs, Todd Rathner, working closely with sponsor Senator Bryan Hughes and our friends in Austin, the Texas Senate on Monday passed Knife Rights’ “Location-Restricted Knife” Reform Bill, SB 2381, by a bipartisan vote of 19-12. The bill’s co-author is Sen. Pat Fallon. The bill has been transmitted to the House where the House companion bill, HB 2342, sponsored by Rep. Harold Dutton, was reported favorably by a unanimous vote of the House Committee on Criminal Jurisprudence last week.

These bills would remove from statute a number of places where Location-Restricted Knives (blades over 5 1/2 inches) are banned. The locations being removed include restaurants and bars that derive 51% of their income from sale or service of alcoholic beverages, amusement parks and places of religious worship.

Knife Rights will let you know as soon as it is appropriate to contact your Texas lawmakers to support these bills.

In 2013 Knife Rights’ repeal of Texas’ switchblade ban was enacted. In 2015 Knife Rights’ signature Knife Law Preemption …Read the Rest

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