Excerpt from Tripp Talk, TSRA newsletter

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Another really good gun bill that passed is HB 25 by Rep. Ryan Guillen (D-Rio Grande City) and Sen. Dan Patrick (R-Houston). An identical duplicate House bill was filed by Rep. Dan Flynn (R-Van). This legislation adds “watercraft” to PC46.02. This is the section of the law where we finally “fixed” the problem with the old traveler’s law. If you can legally possess a firearm in your home, you can also have that firearm in your travel trailer, stock trailer, RV, and your car. Now you can add watercraft to that list. This is without a concealed carry license. You know you can have a handgun in your car, out of sight, and now you can go directly to and from your boat (watercraft). This means kayak, log raft, barge, etc. I’ve fished many times alone on stumpy lonely Texas lakes and rivers. This is a very good bill.

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This is good news but, it does make one wonder why on earth we need to spell out the fact that another person is allowed firearms and can have them at hand. Are we so indoctrinated to a defenseless utopian system that we will never realize there are violent factions amoung our everyday citizenry? This seems like answering the Northern democratic states with, " No, this isn't the Good Ship Lollipop". There just isn't a perfect place. This does give a nod to that fact.