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by tomc
Thu May 03, 2007 5:19 pm
Forum: 2007 Texas Legislative Session
Topic: HB 2774/SB 1003 Airport Access Restrictions
Replies: 6
Views: 7705

I stopped in to TSRA today and had a chat with James Dark. He said he is actively tracking this bill and agrees it is a bad bill. When it came out of committee last week, it was supposed to be re-written to be more acceptable to us but no one had seen a copy of the re-write yet.

Jim also said that there were some political moves that he had to be careful with, but he was hoping for the best. He said that he was holding off putting on the full court press until he saw the new text.

I will keep checking with him and post if we need to get involved.

Tom
by tomc
Wed Apr 25, 2007 3:58 pm
Forum: 2007 Texas Legislative Session
Topic: HB 2774/SB 1003 Airport Access Restrictions
Replies: 6
Views: 7705

AV8R wrote in a previous thread:
GA aircraft owners who hanger their aircraft within the fenced boundaries of the airport are required to have security badges issued by airport operations as well, after a background clearance, and they are assumed not to be terrorists. The badges must be worn when on the ramp. Access to those areas is generally through gates which require a keyed code to open. The codes are changed often and given out only to badge holders. Airports are usually owned by the city, so firearms are not illegal on airport property outside that portion of the terminal area under federal control
This is not necessarily true. At my airport, Addison, KADS, we tenants are given an access code by the city airport management that gets us in through the gates to get to our hangars which we can give to our guests as needed. We are given no "badges" as we don't need no "badges" (sorry, I couldn't resist).

Still, I hope this gets fixed or defeated cause as I see it now, you could get arrested even for a hunting rifle in a locked case since there would be no way to legally check it.

This is bad.

Tom
by tomc
Wed Apr 25, 2007 11:47 am
Forum: 2007 Texas Legislative Session
Topic: HB 2774/SB 1003 Airport Access Restrictions
Replies: 6
Views: 7705

HB 2774/SB 1003 Airport Access Restrictions

I just noticed these proposed bills today that greatly restrict firearms access in areas of airports other than secured. This reads to be a very bad bill to CHLers who travel by or use general aviation facilities at Texas airports.

What is the chance of this proceeding to law? Do we general aviation users need to fight this bill?

You CHL pilots in the know help me with this.

Tom

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