The Probability of Constitutional Carry In Texas Just Doubled

AUSTIN TX – Those crazy gun activists who toted their long guns in public across Texas this past year are starting to reap the benefits of their non-traditional form of activism. Today, Don Huffines, freshman Texas Senator of Dallas, officially filed SB 342, which would make carrying a firearm, concealed or openly, legal without a permit (permission from government). This bill is the senate equivalent of HB 195, filed late last year by Jonathan Stickland of Fort Worth. Therefore, the number of constitutional carry bills just doubled.

Open carry activists have been the target of criticism not only from the typical lefty, anti-gun groups, but surprisingly a lot of criticism came in large part by the NRA establishment crowd. Hardly an open carry rally would go by without some senior citizen/NRA member walking up to a group of openly armed individuals to tell them how stupid their activism is. I would hand it to these guys, they have some giant balls. However, they have no conceptual idea of freedom and what it means to have a natural right free of government control. They seem happy to be in a privileged group of gun owners who happily jump through all the hoops and pay all the fees to carry their pistols in the exact manner that their masters dictate.

No thanks to the NRA, or the Texas State Rifle Association, we now have a myriad of Open Carry bills that has in large part been a result of a grass roots movement of gun activists who want to live more free. Guns being a large part of the freedom equation.

The 84th legislative session is barely underway, so stay tuned for updates and developments as we continue on the path to constitutional carry.