Now Gov. Greg Abbott has said he wants the entire state to be a haven for guns.
“I want to make sure Texas becomes a sanctuary for the second amendment so that no government official at any level can come and take away your gun, despite the people who said, ‘Heck, we’re going to take your gun.’ says Abbott during the 2021 Texas Public Policy Foundation policy orientation.
“We’re going to say, ‘No, you can not take away people’s guns in Texas,'” Abbott said in a self-censored reference to Beto O’Rourke’s Quips during his presidential campaign.
Although O’Rourke’s line about the debate phase in Houston was intended to garner voter support for pro-gun control, it has raised concerns among Second Amendment supporters.
While a handful of Texas provinces have already made decisions declaring that they may not allow the enforcement of any law that violates state or federal constitutional gun protection, the measure has gained much more traction toward O’Rourke’s commentary.
By the beginning of 2020, commissioners in more than 60 provinces – often with the support of the sheriff in the province – took a kind of resolution of the Second Amendment.
Although the number of provinces that had to apply the pro-gun measure came to a halt when the world shifted its focus to the coronavirus pandemic last year, gun sales rose to a record high based on statistics for firearms background checks.
With the Texas legislature now convened for its regular session, state legislators will now debate gun policy.
Dozens of accounts submitted by lawmakers on both sides of the political aisle, with Republicans aiming to strengthen firearms protection and Democrats pushing for increased gun control.
Two lawmakers have filed versions of the Texas Firearms Protection Act – a bill that helped draft Attorney General Greg Abbott draft in 2013.
From the gun laws that have been argued so far, the Texas Firearms Protection Act is best with the idea of a Second Amendment Reserve.
Both accounts – Rep. Steve Toth’s (R-The Woodlands) House Bill (HB) 112 a rep. Ben Leman (R-Anderson) HB 919 – would prohibit law enforcement from applying federal measures’ that purport to regulate a firearm, a firearm accessory or firearm ammunition if the law, order, rule or regulation imposes a prohibition, restriction or other regulation, such as a capacity or size restriction, a registration requirement, or a background test, which does not exist under the laws of this state. ”
Rep. Steve Toth (R-The Woodlands) was one of the five submitters of the bill in 2013 and resubmitted it this year.
In an interview after reinstating the law for the 87th legislative session, Toth said that the incoming government of Biden ‘made it very clear that they would come after us’, but that’ they’re going to get a big hell no “out of Texas.”
“I have a ‘zero tolerance’ policy to prevent the erosion of our gun rights by the left, and I will not stand for an oppressive federal government that systematically disarms our citizens,” said Leman when he presented his account.
In 2013, after its third reading, the Texas House of Representatives passed Toth’s bill by a majority of 100 votes, but the bill died in the state Senate.
How the legislation will fare this year remains to be seen, but with the Democratic control of the U.S. House of Representatives, exactly half of the U.S. Senate seats and the White House, there is certainly an appetite for many Republicans in Texas to push back against the federal government.
These include Abbott, who is rumored to be a candidate for the presidency, and stresses his priority to focus on the Tenth Amendment during his discussion during the TPPF event.
“I still have a record that will never be broken by anyone,” Abbott said. “I hold the record for most lawsuits against Barack Obama – 31 lawsuits against him.”
‘We had to because the actions he took trampled on the freedoms of Texas on the basis of the tenth amendment. We must go back to the fundamentals of the Tenth Amendment and reaffirm it against any possible transgressions we see under the Biden government. ”