The embattled National Rifle Association announced Friday it has filed for chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in United States Bankruptcy Court for the Northern District of Texas, Dallas Division and will reorganize the association as a nonprofit in the Lone Star State. The announcement came in a message posted at the NRA’s website in which […]
Texas Activists Sound Alarm over ‘Duty to Retreat’ Legislation
Texas gun rights activists are raising warning flags about a piece of legislation that would allegedly modify the state’s so-called “castle doctrine” and require citizens to “safely retreat” if possible before using force against another person. Even Snopes, the fact-checking website, acknowledges that State Rep. Terry Meza’s HB 196 “would add a ‘duty to retreat’ […]
More Murders in Chicago than in Most States Last Year
Chicago has hit a milestone, racking up more homicides so far in 2020 than all but two states did during the entire 12 months of 2019, according to the FBI Uniform Crime Report for last year. Only California (1,679) and Texas (1,379) reported more murders in all of 2019 than Chicago has logged over the […]
Texas Anti-Gunners Seek to End State Preemption
One of several pieces of gun control legislation pre-filed for the 2021 Texas legislative session in Austin is a measure aimed at eliminating the Lone Star State’s firearm preemption law, according to KLBJ radio. House Bill 238 would allow local governments to establish their own gun control ordinances, including bans, the story said. According to […]
Shock Poll: Texans Stocking Up on Guns, Half ‘Favor’ Biden
Fifty-one percent of recent first-time gun buyers in Texas favor former Democrat Vice President Joe Biden over Republican President Donald Trump in a poll released days ago by the Dallas Morning News and University of Texas at Tyler. “Most of the people who bought their first gun this summer bought it in the past two […]
CCRKBA To Everytown: ‘Texas Is Not For Sale’
When it was reported that Everytown for Gun Safety, the group founded by anti-gun billionaire Michael Bloomberg, is planning to spend millions of dollars to flip the Texas Legislature this year, the Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms warned, “The Lone Star State is not for sale, Mike.” CCRKBA is one […]