Why Proposed Texas Safe Storage Program Is Bad News
By Tom Knighton
Texas is known as a fairly pro-gun state. In fact, if you asked most folks on the street to name the most pro-gun state in the nation, a large portion–assuming it’s not all of them–would say “Texas.”
However, a recent move by the state is troubling. Very troubling.
You see, they recently passed a safe storage campaign as part of a massive spending bill in the state.
Lawmakers in gun-loving Texas have quietly gone around the National Rifle Assn. by slipping language into a massive spending bill that would fund a $1-million public safety campaign on gun storage.
The last-minute move late Sunday sets up a political test rarely seen in Texas for Republican Gov. Greg Abbott, who must decide whether to veto the spending or to ignore NRA opposition and approve the program.
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The campaign for safe home gun storage is a small item in the two-year, $250-billion state budget, and it was fiercely opposed by the NRA and gun-rights activists. The measure failed to get a vote and appeared all but dead weeks ago.
Then budget negotiators — the majority of whom are Republicans — added the funding into a budget bill. The legislation was approved Sunday night by the GOP-controlled …Read the Rest
Source:: Bearing Arms
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