TX: Pro-Gun Bill Introduced in the Lone Star State

[308Mike]

From NRA-ILA:

[center]Pro-Gun Bill Introduced in the Lone Star State[/center]

Tuesday, December 02, 2008

[center]Please Contact Your State Legislators Today![/center]

The pre-filing of bills for the 2009 legislative session has begun.

State Representative Dennis Bonnen (R-Angleton) has introduced House Bill 267, which would allow Texans to purchase rifles and shotgun in non-contiguous states. Currently, federal law allows the interstate sales of such firearms, but a conflicting Texas law only allows residents to buy long guns in the neighboring states of Arkansas, Louisiana, Oklahoma and New Mexico. This state law has prevented the FBI and BATFE from approving sales of rifles and shotguns in 45 other states to Texas residents.

Please contact your state lawmakers and respectfully urge them to support HB 267 to bring Texas law into line with federal law. Contact information for returning State Senators and Representatives can be found at http://www.house.state.tx.us.

[Aglifter]

Pretty sure this one will sail through... I love having an amateur legislature, but at times we do end up w. laws that no one knows about...

[mekender]

since almost every other state has a law that says only residents of contiguous states can buy guns in their state, wont this law do absolutely nothing?

[Aglifter]

I don't think that many states actually have that law -- apparently it was a federal law at one time, but for some reason, states mirrored it in state law. When the federal law was repealed I think most states ended up forgetting about it -- I never knew it existed for TX until I heard about the push to repeal it.