Joseph Pendleton

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 Texas Democrats are filing a FLOOD of proposed bills that would TAKE AWAY gun rights for Americans. Here's what's been filed so far: HB 218 (Johnson): would create extreme-risk protective orders, including temporary orders issued without notice. A family or household member or a peace officer could apply if they allege the person has a serious mental illness and poses an immediate danger because of access to firearms. The person would have to turn over their guns within 24 hours; a full order would last up to a year and could be renewed. Possessing a gun in violation would be a Class A misdemeanor. HB 173 (Moody): would make it a state jail felony to transfer a semiautomatic rifle that takes a detachable magazine and is larger than .22 caliber to anyone under 21, with exceptions for peace officers, current or honorably discharged military, and some temporary loans at a range or hunt. HB 576 (Lalani): would bar registered sex offenders from buying a firearm, but only for registration based on an offense committed on or after Sept. 1, 2027. HB 103 (Martinez): would expand the state crime of reckless discharge of a firearm so it also covers counties of 500,000 or more people, not just cities of 100,000 or more. SB 80 (Zaffirini): would prohibit certain transfers, purchases, and possession of assault weapons and would create criminal offenses. HB 606 (Lalani): would prohibit transferring firearms to, or the purchase or possession of firearms by, people under 21, and would create a criminal offense. HB 610 (Lalani): would prohibit transferring firearms to certain recipients under 21. HB 857 (Anchía): would prohibit transferring certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients under 21, and would create a criminal offense and increase a penalty. HB 771 (Sethi): would prohibit transferring certain semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients, and would create a criminal offense and increase a penalty. HB 806 (Reynolds): would prohibit transferring semiautomatic rifles to certain recipients and would increase a criminal penalty. HB 613 (Lalani): would require a national instant criminal background check on private firearm transfers and would create a criminal offense. HB 612 (Lalani): would prohibit a sex offender from possessing a firearm. (prob the only reasonable one) HB 609 (Lalani): would increase the criminal penalty for making a firearm accessible to a child. HB 658 (Moody): would change the prosecution and punishment of making a firearm accessible to a child and would increase a criminal penalty. HB 618 (Moody): would restrict transferring firearm magazines to people who are prohibited from possessing the type of firearm the magazine is made for, and would create a criminal offense. HB 659 (Moody): would require licensed firearms dealers to report certain sales or transfers of multiple firearms or magazines to law enforcement, and would create a criminal offense. HB 660 (Moody): would require certain people already prohibited from owning or possessing a firearm to dispose of firearms they own, possess, or control. HB 712 (Gámez): would address a city or county's authority to regulate or prohibit carrying a firearm in certain libraries. HB 776 (Sethi): would address expulsion-related offenses involving possessing, carrying, exhibiting, or using a firearm on or within 1,000 feet of school property. HB 859 (Anchía): would increase the criminal penalty for discharging a firearm in certain municipalities.