3 Boxes of BS

Woot! Woot!
Progress has been made !

I’m really digging the ability to check the status of my renewal online  and the rumors of me checking it 10 to 15 times a day are slightly exaggerated.

Even though I’m not going to be able to make the N.R.A. Convention, I thought I would help out the visitors to our great state. Please remember; I’m not a lawyer, this isn’t legal advice (you are on your own), mileage may vary and I didn’t even sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night.

First off, here is a link to determine if your license is valid in Texas.  Texas has reciprocal and unilateral recognition of state permits so just because your state doesn’t show an agreement with Texas doesn’t mean you can’t carry here.

Second – all the usual Federal laws/rules/regulations/restrictions apply, e.g. post office, federal buildings.

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I don’t agree with the idea of needing a license to carry a firearm but to keep out of jail I abide by the law. The Texas Department of Public Safety at least tries to stay up with current technology by letting people apply and check the status of their application online.

Or in my case, my renewal.

The question becomes; Will there be a snag before my current permit expires ?
I’m not sure what the outcome will be; there are a lot of people applying/renewing now days.

Stay tuned for the further adventures and exciting updates*.

*Hey it is better, only slightly, then watching paint dry.

Sooner or later, I hope, criminals are going to learn it is dangerous to try robbing someone in Texas.

FORT WORTH — A suspected robber was killed and his intended target was hospitalized with minor injuries in a shooting Tuesday afternoon outside a southeast Fort Worth business, officials said.

Desmond Paige, 20, of Fort Worth was pronounced dead at 1:08 p.m. in the parking lot of a business in the 7400 block of Wichita Street, the Tarrant County medical examiner’s office reported.

20 years old and he owned a pistol; unless it was a gift from a parent, he owned it illegally. Imagine that.

The other man was not identified.

Investigators believe the two men met because one of them had advertised on Craigslist that he was buying cellphones. One tried to rob the other, police said.

The robbery target was a licensed concealed-handgun carrier, police said.

Not quite Thunderdome in Bartertown but a stark reminder — when you answer an ad on Craig’s list you never know who you are truly dealing with or their motives. Be careful out there folks.

MedStar spokesman Matt Zavadsky said paramedics told him that the robbery target “took out his gun, and he shot the alleged perpetrator in the chest several times.”

The man with the gun was shot in the arm. His injury was not life-threatening, Zavadsky said. It was not clear late Tuesday whether he was shot by Paige or shot himself, officials said.

I’m going to guess a person cool enough to draw when he is already has a pistol aimed at him isn’t likely to shoot himself but it isn’t impossible.

And I want to take a moment to address the stupidity that anti-rights cultists often throw out with “Your property isn’t worth someone’s life even if he is a criminal”.  The moment the thug threatened deadly force it stopped being about ‘property’ and became about the victims life !!! What is so hard to understand about that?

From the Texas Penal Code Section 9.01

(3)  ”Deadly force” means force that is intended or known by the actor to cause, or in the manner of its use or intended use is capable of causing, death or serious bodily injury.

The thug threatened to use deadly force in order to get what he wanted. It isn’t as if he walked up empty handed, said “Please give me your cell phone, wallet and money” and would have walked away peacefully if told NO.  When threatened with deadly force the best answer is deadly force, not cowering in submission.

So Mr./Ms/ Anti-Rights Cultist, instead of asking gun owners to not defend themselves; why don’t you spend a little time reaching out to the criminals- see if you can get them to stop threatening to kill people?

(H/T to GregTag)

Let’s make a few phones ring off the hook for this one folks. This is the main portion of Texas House Bill 3143.

AN ACT

                relating to the creation of certain offenses concerning firearm sales at gun shows; authorizing a fee.

                                       SECTION 2.   Chapter 46, Penal Code, is amended by adding

                Sections 46.065 and 46.066 to read as follows:
Sec. 46.065.  CERTAIN REQUIREMENTS RELATING TO SALES AT GUN         SHOWS. 
(a)  A person commits an offense if the person knowingly sells a firearm to another person in exchange for money or other consideration at a gun show without complying with the national  instant criminal background check system in the manner required by 18 U.S.C. Section 922 before completing the sale. A person who conducts a criminal background check as required by this subsection may charge a fee in an amount equal to the cost incurred by the person to obtain the background check.
 (b)  A person commits an offense if the person knowingly  sells a firearm to another person in exchange for money or other  consideration at a gun show and the person does not maintain a record of the sale.

Never mind the fact that currently an FFL can not perform a background check on firearms (s)he does not own; we need to defeat this attempt because it is bad law. Criminals will still use straw purchasers to buy firearms so this stops nothing.

If you don’t already know who represents you in Austin, you can find out here.

According to the Legislative assistant in Rep. Patrick’s office it appears this bill stands little chance of getting out of committee    But let’s make sure it is buried under an avalanche of  comments, emails and calls from Texans anyways. The more the Reps hear from us opposing bills like this, the fewer of them will be introduced.

Tam’s Burgers in L.A.

But in 2012 the city declared Tam’s a “public nuisance,” claiming the late-night joint was a haven for criminals. Benetatos says he is simply located in a high-crime area and has tried to work with the Los Angeles Police Department, honoring its requests that he remove pay phones on the property and tables for outdoor seating, which he says resulted in a 15 percent decline in revenues.

The city’s zoning board then ordered Benetatos to comply with 22 separate conditions, such as hiring a full-time security guard, fencing in the entire property, and installing a security camera that links directly to the LAPD’s electronic surveillance system.

22 separate conditions after removing pay phones and outdoor seating !
And this from a group of unelected bureaucrats — in the state where people are all but forbidden to exercise their right to keep and bear arms in public; they want to require full time security.

I really don’t understand this type of mentality — crime is rampant in the area so bad they want to force a business to install cameras linked directly to the police department (but don’t say “police surveillance state”/Big Brother) — yet it is still next to impossible to get a carry permit in L.A. County.

Congratulations City of Los Angeles; in times of economic hardship and high unemployment, you just shut down another business. Great going!

I’m not sure if Representative Gohmert deserves a ticket for parking in the wrong spot or not.
He may very well deserve it but something in the article really struck me as highlighting the problem.

“A park service vehicle pulled up as he was putting a note with the ticket on a vacant park service vehicle, so he showed his official card, explained that his Congressional plate was showing and he was authorized to park there,” she added. “The park service officer said he had not noticed the 5” x 10” Congressional plate in the front window and would not know what it meant had he seen it. The officer accepted the ticket back and apologized.”

Ignorance of the law is no excuse for the person breaking the law or enforcing it.