Lubbock City Council Rejects Gun-Rights Restrictions in Texas

By Justin Stakes

Three Gun Resolutions Before the Lubbock City Council This Week!

Austin, TX -(AmmoLand.com)- TSRA and NRA sent Lubbock-area members an alert this week urging them to contact the Lubbock City Council on three proposed changes.

The first resolution was sponsored by Mayor Glen Robertson. It was a positive expansion of self-defense rights for city employees, which would direct the City Manager to develop and enforce policies allowing any city employee with a valid CHL to carry concealed while on-duty or while operating a city vehicle.

The second and third resolutions were sponsored by City Council member, Latrelle Joy.

These proposed ordinances represented a move in the opposite direction.

Her agenda items would ban concealed as well as open carrying of handguns by licensees in rooms where open meetings of the City of Lubbock are held and require notice to be given through the posting of 30.06 and 30.07 signs.

Since 1997 state law, found in Penal Code 46.035 (i), has allowed governmental entities to post the PC 30.06 and soon PC 30.07 sign when such a meeting is being held. “Governmental meetings” are not automatically off-limits and …Read the Rest

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