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Constitutional carry amendment to be ruled out of order

stealthyeliminator

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It's being said that Stickland's constitutional carry amendment will be ruled out of order by the speaker. That ruling could be challenged if 10 members of the house would do so. Out of 150, it is seen as unlikely that even 10 will stand up and say that restoring and upholding the constitution of Texas is not out of order. If this is what is coming to pass, how do you feel about this?
 

SteveInCO

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It's being said that Stickland's constitutional carry amendment will be ruled out of order by the speaker. That ruling could be challenged if 10 members of the house would do so. Out of 150, it is seen as unlikely that even 10 will stand up and say that restoring and upholding the constitution of Texas is not out of order. If this is what is coming to pass, how do you feel about this?

Seems to me that if ten out of 150 can't be found to object, then that's prima facie proof that this amendment was indeed dead in the water and there is in fact NO significant interest in free open carry in the TX legislature, in spite all the chest beating I have seen around here to the contrary.

The more interesting question would then be: if there was ever any interest in such.

But let's first see what actually happens.
 

stealthyeliminator

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Seems to me that if ten out of 150 can't be found to object, then that's prima facie proof that this amendment was indeed dead in the water and there is in fact NO significant interest in free open carry in the TX legislature, in spite all the chest beating I have seen around here to the contrary.

The more interesting question would then be: if there was ever any interest in such.

But let's first see what actually happens.

The point is, they're avoiding accountability. They do not want to record a no vote. They want to hold themselves up as defenders of the second amendment, when they are in fact not defenders of it, and they know it.

The fact that calling the amendment out of order is supposedly going to be used as the vehicle for it's demise is the point. If nobody supports the amendment, why not just let them vote against it, and then it will be over and done with?
 
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WalkingWolf

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If it remains legal to OC a long gun, antique firearm, I hope OCT continues to stand tall and continue to carry without a permit. They will have to then rethink their slight of hand next session.
 
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