According to the Austin American-Statesman, the City of Austin, Texas and Travis County are both looking at proposals to limit gun shows in their jurisdictions.
City of Austin and Travis County officials plan to take steps to ban gun shows on city- and county-owned property — and potentially even curtail them on private property within the city limits, the American-Statesman has learned.
Less than a month after the Newtown, Conn., elementary school shooting that killed 26 students and staff, Council Member Mike Martinez said he and at least two other council members are considering bringing to a vote this month their unprecedented proposal.
The measure would primarily affect several well-attended gun shows typically held at the Travis County Exposition Center as well as any other city-owned property.
The city owns the land on which the expo center is located, while the county has a long-term lease for the facility.
Travis County commissioners are set to consider a measure at their meeting Tuesday that also would no longer allow gun shows on county land or at county facilities, Commissioner Sarah Eckhardt said.
This is Texas, but Austin and Travis County are the blue dot in the red sea here. They’re more than a little out of sync with the rest of the state.
On his Facebook page, Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott noted the proposed gun show bans, with a pungent promise.
Texas Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson is skeptical that banning gun shows is the answer. To say the least.
“I can’t think of anything dumber,” Patterson, a supporter of gun rights, said of the proposals. “It’s absolutely not going to reduce gun violence.”
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For the record, I’m in far northeast San Antonio…
???? there are in-door shooting gun ranges inside the city limits. There’s at least one women’s bible study that meets at one of them. girly-women, in dresses, with kids, and sparkly flip-flop shoes.
can they call it a gay parade, and continue to sell guns? the gay parade makes a whole section of town uninhabitable for a weekend. It features live sex acts out in public that are against the law. you can’t even do this stuff at sexually oriented businesses in town. you know, sob’s that pay taxes? property taxes? liquor taxes? sales taxes?
do the freaked out kids who just got kicked off prozac even know how to find a gun-show? would a dealer sell a gun to a guy who looks like the aurora, colorado shooting, in the first place?
“I can’t think of anything dumber,” Patterson, a supporter of gun rights, said of the proposals. “It’s absolutely not going to reduce gun violence.”
Incorrect premise. It’s not about reducing “gun violence”, much less deaths involving firearms: it’s fundamentally one more battle in the ongoing culture war. If you substitute gun-owner for cigarette smoker, then you can make some sense of what those seeking greater restrictions on firearms ownership are pursuing. I don’t happen to think they’ll be successful in the short or long term. The dissimilarities in the two issues are too great, beginning with the data. However, the actual dynamics should be accurately described. The bad faith on the part of the administration and its supporters on this is exemplified by open declarations that whatever is to be done must be rammed through now before the emotional effects of Sandy Hook wear off.
I lived in Austin from 2006 to 2010. I went to a couple guns shows at a location on North Lamar, might be the place referred to in the article. I also remember this was a yearly thing, hipsters talking about banning gun shows, because of course, gang bangers buy all their hardware at gun shows. /s
Red’s ranges were good places to shoot; I belonged to Red’s South one year.
Leave it up to the [Keep] Austin [Weird] greenweenies to try to limit gun sales in Austin. Next step; deny concealed carry permit holders to carry within the city limits.
Not that it would work out for the Austin liberals. Hell, half the Republican Texas Congressman pack, even while at work.