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The next legislative session is not scheduled to commence until January 10, 2017, but it promises to hold our interest as more and more gun legislation is being proposed. One  pre-filed measure for the session comes from Republican State Representative Dan Flynn, HB 56. Under the proposed measure, first responders, including EMS and firefighters, would be allowed... [Read More]

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A Democrat State Representative from San Antonio, Diego Bernal, has set his sights on Penal Code sections 30.06 and 30.07, the laws that govern the current requirements for written communication in the form of signs for property owners to post to prohibit firearms. These signs are commonly referred to as “30.06” (concealed carry) and “30.07”... [Read More]

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The next legislative session for Texas lawmakers commences on January 10, 2017, but the period for pre-filing bills for consideration began on November 14, 2016, and over four hundred of bills were filed the first day alone. Democratic state representatives wasted no time in taking aim at law abiding gun owners and their rights by... [Read More]

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  The next legislative session will commence in just over a week — January 10, 2017 — and one of the bills pre-filed ahead of the session’s opening was HB 259, authored by State Rep. Rafael Anchia, (D-Dallas). Under the proposed measure, it would become a crime to sell a firearm at a gun show without using... [Read More]

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  On December 19, the Social Security Administration (SSA) issued the final version of a rule that will classify unknown numbers of law-abiding, vulnerable disability insurance and Supplemental Security Income (SSI) recipients as “mental defectives,” and strip their Second Amendment rights in the process. The Social Security rule is the final version of a proposal... [Read More]

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Pro-Second Amendment legislation should get a push when the new Congress convenes in January, 2017, after more than a dozen Republican House members revived the Congressional Second Amendment Caucus (CSAC). Rep. Thomas Massie of Kentucky will chair the group, which issued a statement that “Caucus members will lead efforts in the House of Representatives to... [Read More]

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  Firearms and Texans. Texans and firearms. There are few words in the popular lexicon that go together with greater ease than these. Our history tells us why, and our treasured historical documents remove any doubt. These same documents also rebut the claim by the anti-gun left that the NRA and evil gun manufacturers are... [Read More]

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Commenters on Texas & U.S. Law Shield social media overwhelmingly want President-Elect Donald J. Trump to push national reciprocity as his first gun-rights-related legislative effort. Those posting on our Texas Law Shield Facebook page and our U.S. Law Shield Facebook page expressed their wish for “National Concealed Carry Reciprocity” above “Ending Gun-Free Zones On Military... [Read More]

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  By John R. Lott, Jr. Contributing Editor to Texas & U.S. Law Shield CNN recently made the completely false claim that the US has “one of the world’s highest rates of death by firearms.” Note most countries don’t report their firearm homicide rates, and there are many other problems that make the US’s rate... [Read More]

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The “Left-Coast” state has done it again. The election of 2016 saw the election of a man for President who has espoused his strong support for the 2nd Amendment and gun-owners’ rights. But that message was lost on Californians.  On Tuesday, two thirds of the voters passed Proposition 63, which further restricted the rights of... [Read More]

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President-elect Donald Trump’s pro-gun platform received scant coverage prior to the election. So that Texas & U.S. Law Shield members know what Trump proposed prior to his election on Nov. 8, we’ve copied verbatim his gun-rights platform from his official website: Defend the Second Amendment of our Constitution. The right of the people to keep and... [Read More]

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Tuesday’s election brought with it challenges in four states to the rights of law-abiding gun owners as well as a potential threat nationally to the 2nd Amendment. By now, everyone is probably aware that Donald J. Trump won the Presidential election over his opponent, Hillary Clinton. That is a significant plus for gun rights in... [Read More]

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