Nearly 100 Anti-Second Amendment Measures Proposed To Texas Legislature

With the 2024 Presidential election in the rearview mirror and the country resoundingly rejecting four more years of any calamitous leftist administration, you may be tempted to breathe a sigh of relief, but not so fast. Rights are typically not taken away from the top down, but rather from the bottom up, which means it’s time to pay close attention to legislatures across the country as they prepare to convene in January. A couple of weeks ago I wrote about leftist governors retaliating against the election results by threatening the Second Amendment rights of their constituents, however, it’s not just the pinkos in the governor’s mansions with their sights set on your liberty. Democratic legislators are seething for revenge against all of us who voted them out of power, and it doesn’t matter what state you live in. Think I’m wrong? Just take a look at the great state of Texas and the nearly 100 anti-Second Amendment measures submitted by Democrat lawmakers in the first week of pre-filing. 

Let’s start the clown show highlight reel with the first batch of Democrat-sponsored measures aimed at undermining the Second Amendment. This set of rabidly seditious trash known as HB 234, HB 478, HB 655, and HB 893 are all centered on enacting extreme risk protection orders, or red-flag laws, which provide authorities access to confiscate an individual’s firearms and strip them of their gun rights without the benefit of their Constitutional right to due process. You have to hand it to the Democrats. When they practice to violate civil liberties, they don’t bother throwing only the Second Amendment to the fire, they go after it all, from property rights to due process. They are like a defensive lineman who jumps offsides and decides while he’s there to hit the quarterback then jump into the stands and slap his mother. Chris McNutt, president of Texas Gun Rights, spoke of the seemingly unprecedented number of anti-gun bills and how the group is fighting back with pro-gun measures. "We are on track for having the most gun control bills ever filed in the Texas legislature… They keep coming back with trying to pass red-flag gun confiscation laws… We're working with state representative, Briscoe Cain from the Houston area to ban, red-flag gun confiscation laws. That's House Bill 162, and that would pretty much neuter everything that the Cornyn-Biden compromise tried to do,” says McNutt.

Red flag laws aren’t the only Casu Marzu on the menu in Texas. HB 623 by State Representative Ron Reynolds out of Missouri City seeks to manipulate its way into banning semi-automatic firearms via a proposed assault weapons ban. HB 306, HB 313, HB 384, HB 579, and HB 1150 all take aim at disarming adults under 21. Texas Democrats are serving up HB 397, HB 682, HB 808, and HB 828 looking to impose universal background checks on private firearm transfers while creating a state gun registry via HB 461, HB 874, and HB 883, requiring firearm dealers to report gun buyers who purchase more than one firearm per transaction. Representative Terry Meza from Irving sponsors HB 226 targeting home gunsmithing and privately made firearms, and HB 481 banning standard capacity magazines. HB 834 comes by way of Representative Diego Bernal out of San Antonio. His abomination would end open carry in the state. Not to be excluded, the Texas Senate has a bill on the floor to repeal campus carry.

Now the good news. Come on, you didn’t think I’d leave you on such a down note, did you? The good news is that these Democrats lack intelligence almost as much as integrity and patriotism. Let me explain. Democrats are rowing upstream as Republicans dominate the State House of Representatives 87 to 63 and the Texas Senate 19 to 12, making it almost impossible to force a vote. Even if they could, I’m more likely to start aging backward than they are to pass any of these bills. And let’s not forget Texas Governor Greg Abbott. I wouldn’t hold my breath waiting for him to take any of this legislation seriously, much less sign it into law. A more likely scenario will see certain measures merged and others hit the trash bin due to redundancies, with any surviving foolishness destined to wilt on the vine. Accomplishing little more than wasting time and taxpayer resources, this obscure dance is an exercise in stupidity, arrogance, and virtue signaling. In other words, it’s right up their alley. There is an important lesson to learn here, however, about complacency. While terrible ideas get kicked around Austin and many other state legislatures across America, beware of the blueprint Democrats have for your state. Get involved and stay involved. This isn’t the time to kick your feet up and watch for alerts on Truth Social. Remember when I said rights are typically not taken away from the top down, but rather from the bottom up? This is how it begins

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