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Pro-Second Amendment Bills Pre-Filed For Texas' 2025 Legislative Session

Friday, November 22, 2024

Pro-Second Amendment Bills Pre-Filed For Texas' 2025 Legislative Session

Dear Texas NRA Member:

Last week your NRA reported on a laundry list of extreme anti-Second Amendment bills pre-filed in advance of the 2025 Texas legislative session, including red flag gun confiscation schemes, bans on private firearms transfers, limits on standard magazine capacity, prohibitions on commonly-owned semi-automatic firearms, and repeals of landmark NRA-backed laws such as open carry, campus carry and the state firearms preemption statute.  

This week, your NRA is highlighting some of the PRO-GUN legislation that has been pre-filed:

House Bill 162 introduced by Rep. Briscoe Cain prohibits state or local governmental entities or their employees from recognizing, serving, or enforcing red flag gun confiscation orders against another person in this state, or adopting rules, ordinances, orders or policies relating to such orders. Prohibits these entities from accepting federal grant money to do the same. 

House Bill 259 introduced by Rep. Richard Hayes removes short-barreled rifles and short-barreled shotguns from the list of prohibited weapons in Texas. (Note that these items would still be regulated under the National Firearms Act at the federal level.) 

House Bill 644 introduced by Rep. Cecil Bell provides immunity to business owners who allow licensed concealed handguns on their premises.

House Bill 920 introduced by Rep. Ben Bumgarner exempts firearms, ammunition, and firearms accessories from state sales and use tax. 

House Bill 1337 introduced by Rep. Carrie Isaac provides for universal recognition of out-of-state carry licenses, bringing Texas’ LTC law into line with the permitless carry law which applies equally to nonresidents.

House Bill 1403 introduced by Rep. Cody Harris prohibits child placement and state agencies from requiring foster parents to provide a list of the specific types of firearms that are kept in the home and ensures that information regarding the presence of firearms in the home remains confidential. 

The legislative session will convene on January 14. Lawmakers will have until March 14 to introduce bills, so the already-lengthy list of Second Amendment related measures will continue to grow.  Stay tuned: NRA-ILA will continue to alert you on bills impacting law-abiding gun owners and sportsmen!


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Established in 1975, the Institute for Legislative Action (ILA) is the "lobbying" arm of the National Rifle Association of America. ILA is responsible for preserving the right of all law-abiding individuals in the legislative, political, and legal arenas, to purchase, possess and use firearms for legitimate purposes as guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the U.S. Constitution.