Updated at 12:50 p.m.: Revised to include comments from Bonnen.

AUSTIN -- Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen said Friday that "constitutional carry" legislation is dead after a gun rights activist went to his Lake Jackson home as part of a push for the controversial gun bill.

Chris McNutt is the executive director of Texas Gun Rights and a supporter of Bedford Republican Rep. Jonathan Stickland's bill that would allow Texans to carry firearms without the need for a license.

After posting rants on Facebook about the bill's lack of movement, he went to Bonnen's home about 50 miles south of Houston last Wednesday while Bonnen was in Austin and his wife and teenage sons were home. McNutt also visited the homes of Reps. Dustin Burrows of Lubbock and Four Price of Amarillo.

On Friday, Bonnen strongly condemned McNutt and his actions, calling them a demonstration of "insanity" and him an "overzealous advocate for criminals to get a gun." Bonnen said his home was placed under surveillance by the Department of Public Safety after McNutt went to the Burrows and Price homes.

"If you want to talk about issues and you want to advocate, you do it in this building. You don’t do it at our residences," Bonnen said. "Threats and intimidation will never advance your issue. Their issue is dead."

Bonnen was especially upset that McNutt had gone to their district residences when the legislators were in Austin but their families were at home. Burrows has three boys under the age of 7, Bonnen said.

"Anyone who has a strong position should advocate vigorously for it. And I respect it and I even enjoy it. But crossing the line of going to Rep. Burrows home, posting the street of Rep. Price’s home -- he posted a picture of his house with his street on social media," Bonnen said. "Then coming to my home or any other member's home is crossing the line. ... I can only guess the level of influence he was trying to create over Mr. Burrows and Mr. Price and myself by going to my home knowing I was not there but my family was."

McNutt, who is from Dallas and has worked for North Texas legislators like former state Sen. Don Huffines and Stickland, told news outlets the speaker's response was a "deliberate overreaction."

"If politicians like Speaker Dennis Bonnen think they can show up at the doorsteps of Second Amendment supporters and make promises to earn votes in the election season, they shouldn't be surprised when we show up in their neighborhoods to insist they simply keep their promises in the legislative session," McNutt said.

Four months into the session, the constitutional carry bill remains pending in the House Homeland Security and Public Safety Committee. Bonnen appointed Democrat Poncho Nevárez of Eagle Pass to run the committee, which usually handles gun legislation, and Nevárez said Friday he no longer plans on having a hearing on the bill.

He had intended to hold one last Wednesday but opted against it because the House was debating the state budget late into the night. Debate on the bill would have started after midnight, with many witnesses expected to testify.

"I wasn't canceling the hearing. I was postponing it," Nevárez said. "But ... once they started harassing, one, the speaker, and then these other representatives for no good reason, then I think it's incumbent upon me not to reward bad behavior or make them believe that somehow this harassment led to me giving them a hearing."

"I want to expand Medicaid, but if you came to my house and camped out and threatened to kill me or made my family uncomfortable so that I would expand Medicaid, guess what? I'm not going to do it. Because that's not any way to do it," he added.

Stickland released a statement saying the bill was dead and he was canceling his request for a hearing. Later, he published a Facebook video saying he was "saddened by the acts of a few individuals that have stolen the conversation about legislation that I care deeply about."

"There is never a time or place to physically threaten an elected official with violence. It is never okay or helpful to your cause to curse out their staff. It's never OK to target their homes or personal businesses when you know they are not in town," Stickland said. "I want to thank the tens of thousands of Texans who are involved in the political process and they are doing it the right way. We must all individually hold ourselves to the highest of standards in our fight for liberty."

Nevárez, who keeps guns at his border-adjacent ranch, likened constitutional carry to the state's "open carry" law and said with a few tweaks, it might not be a bad idea.

"But the problems that I have with a bill like constitutional carry is not training everybody. I think that's a mistake," he said. "It becomes a license for basically any felon to carry because you can't stop them and ask them. That's a problem."

At the start of the 2015 legislative session, Nevárez was also assigned a DPS security detail after receiving numerous threats from gun rights advocates over his opposition to a bill that would allow unlicensed persons to carry handguns in plain view. Many Texas lawmakers sported "I'm Poncho" stickers in support of him.

Bonnen, a gun owner who got an "A" rating from the Texas State Rifle Association, said Friday that the fate of the constitutional carry bill was not in his hands.

"Do I think this bad policy? Yes. So I'm not running from that," he said. "The bigger point is they can attack me all they want, but don't go to my residence when you know there's zero opportunity of my being there. ... Don't go where my two sons and my wife are and I am not."

When McNutt showed up in Bonnen's neighborhood, DPS troopers were waiting for him, according to The Facts, a Brazoria County newspaper that first reported the story. McNutt handed them a business card and left, Bonnen told the Houston Chronicle.

His wife, Kim, said she was bothered by the fact that McNutt wore a shirt with a picture of an assault rifle when he came to her neighborhood.

"It's rattling, certainly, to have people attempting to advocate in our home knowing that Dennis isn't there. I don't think there's any way for me or the children to take that as any way other than an intimidation factor which I don't appreciate," Kim Bonnen said. "I don't want my boys to feel like we need to have DPS in front of our house. That doesn't provide them comfort in the safety of their environment. It's unsettling for them."