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tfrazier wrote:By the way, the parking lot bills are starting to get a lot more media attention.

We are getting a lot of media attention. Scott Braddock of KRLD radio in Dallas called me for an interview last night. He said it's a very hot topic.

Chas.

will381796 wrote:It's all an attempt to preempt the passage of the college carry bill by giving the public the illusion that they support CHL holders, and gun holders in general. "We support your second ammendment rights. We voted for SB730. But we think colleges should be a place of learning, not weaponry. blah blah blah."

Or maybe I'm too big of a sceptic.

You are. We have very good friends in Austin and we have some fair weather friends. While campus-carry is a far more emotional subject, employer parking lots pits all the money in Texas against us. In politics, in a emotion v. money battle, money wins. A "yea" vote on SB730 carries a much greater political penalty than the same vote on campus-carry.

I'm not saying campus-carry is in the bag; it's still a very steep and rugged climb and there are more ways to kill a bill quietly and below the radar screen than one can imagine.

Chas.

frazzled wrote:Cool. Sounds like a good amendment. Leases are private property of the leaseholders (ie farmer Bob) with mineral rights leased to the E&P developer. This protects them from worker hooligans on thier very private land.

I need to see the amendment to see if it really does only that. But that was exactly the concern, because it was claimed that many mineral leases have a "no guns" provision so Farmer Brown doesn't have to let oil company employees on his land with guns.

Chas.

SB730 passed the Senate minutes ago, with one floor amendment. The amendment was proposed by Senator Ogden to deal with private property that is leased to an oil company for oil drilling. I haven't seen it yet.

Chas.