🚨 HOLY SMOKES: Texas Democrats just filed nearly 20 bills to impose SWEEPING new firearm restrictions — on the VERY FIRST DAY they could ‼️
Days after winning the Texas House and the governor's mansion for the first time in DECADES, they went STRAGIHT for Second Amendment rights
They include:
- SB 80: Ban on "assault weapons," including possession
- HB 173 and others: FELONY to transfer many semiautomatic rifles to adults under 21
- HB 712: Lets cities and counties chip away at statewide gun protections
- HB 613: Background checks on private gun sales
- HB 659: Dealers must report people who buy multiple guns or magazines
HB 218 would also repeal the 2025 Texas law that BANNED red flag orders.
The only thing standing in the way right now is the Republican Texas Senate!
HOLD THE LINE, PATRIOTS.
THIS is what Democrat control looks like. Texas, you were warned. Turn red in the next election 🟥
Texas used to be the place you ran to when your blue state turned into a dumpster fire. Now those same people showed up with a box of matches and a can of gas.
@Combat_learjet@Lifetime Are you hunting near Turkey Creek by chance? I hunted that area in October 2000. I didn’t have any luck, but my dad got a nice 4x4 muley and my uncle a 5x5 elk.
America's elk, pronghorn and wild turkeys were brought back from the edge by men who wanted to eat them, and those men paid for it themselves.
By 1900 the market hunters had all but emptied the country. Elk were down to about 41,000. Pronghorn were down to about 13,000. The wild turkey had gone from most of the states it once filled.
In 1937 the sportsmen backed a law that took the federal tax on their rifles, shotguns and ammunition and handed it to the states for wildlife. This was the Pittman-Robertson Act. A congressman from Virginia added a clause that any state spending hunting licence money on anything else would lose its share.
No conservation law in history has done more. There are now more than a million elk and about a million pronghorn, turkeys gobble in every state but Alaska, and the deer are on the lawns.
To this day hunters and anglers pay for about 59% of what America's state wildlife agencies spend. The birdwatcher pays nothing.
In the 1990s the agencies asked him to. A plan called Teaming With Wildlife proposed a tax of 5% or less on binoculars, birdseed, tents, backpacks and hiking boots, which would have cost the average buyer under $10 a year. The outdoor industry fought it, and it never found a single sponsor in Congress.
The men who paid are getting old. In 1980 about 1 American in 15 bought a hunting licence. Now it is 1 in 21, and the average hunter stops buying one at about 65. Wisconsin's wildlife department has already warned of a $16m hole.
The animals were saved by people who wanted them on the table. The people who only want to look at them were asked to chip in once, and said no.
💔 A 21-year-old Texas A&M University senior died Tuesday morning, nearly two weeks after suffering heatstroke during a training run.
Austin Stallman, the son of Brazoria County Sheriff Bo Stallman and Angleton ISD coordinator Jeanna Stallman, died Tuesday morning.
In a statement shared with KBTX, Texas A&M University said:
“It is a tragedy whenever a student or member of our Texas A&M community passes away. Our hearts go out to Austin’s family, friends, classmates and loved ones. We offer our deepest condolences and support during this difficult time.”
Stallman fell critically ill Sept. 15 while on a 9-mile run in College Station as part of a semester-long tryout for a student group that prepares candidates to become Navy SEALs.
Stallman’s hospitalization came amid other recent heat-related emergency at the university.
On Sept. 15, a Texas A&M football player was transported by ambulance from the Coolidge Football Performance Center to a local hospital for evaluation following a heat-related incident during outdoor practice. Athletic officials said the player was treated quickly, released, and cleared to return to the program.
We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of former Angleton football player Austin Stallman
Austin, a senior at Texas A&M and the son of Brazoria County Sheriff Bo Stallman, died from complications of heatstroke suffered during a tryout for a Navy SEAL preparatory program in College Station
Our thoughts and prayers are with his family, friends, former teammates, coaches, and everyone who knew him