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Texas: GOA Responds to Sellout License to Carry Instructors

Springfield, VA – -(AmmoLand.com)- Rachel Malone, Texas Director of Gun Owners of America, responded to License to Carry (LTC) instructors who are opposing efforts to restore the right of self-defense in Texas, stating:

“Earlier today, a small contingent of License to Carry instructors sided with Bloomberg-funded organizations and opposed pending legislation to restore Texans’ right to carry a handgun without having to obtain a permit. We find it unconscionable that anyone in the firearms community would betray our liberties based on an obvious financial interest.

“As Chair James White and Representative Matt Schaefer stated earlier today, ‘Experience shows that residents will continue to voluntarily seek out training and licenses in permitless carry states, recognizing the benefits of instruction as well as acquiring and maintaining a license, for reciprocity with other states while traveling and other purposes.’

“We agree with Wallace Dunn, President of the Texas Concealed Handgun Association, who stated: ‘Training should not be a condition to exercising a constitutional right.’

“And we applaud instructors such as Jerah Hutchins, firearms instructor, GOA member, and Director of Training at Tier One security company, who stated: ‘Supporting Constitutional Carry as an LTC instructor is the difference between capitalism and greed. As instructors, our job is to teach and influence Texans to be responsible gun owners. This can be accomplished without an infringing licensure.’

“While Gun Owners of America encourages gun owners to obtain quality training, we would hate for any Texas gun owners to give their hard-earned money to the tiny fraction of instructors who actively fight against their core values. We urge our members to seek training from those who advocate in favor of our liberties and support Constitutional Carry.”

Fugging turncoats are everywhere.

If you don't need a license to carry you don't need a license to carry instructor.

Wrong. Your permitless is only good in Texas. Mine is good in 33 states including Texass.

I think there is value in training someone to properly carry a gun, I think we all know someone who we would feel better about getting meaningful instruction on gun handling.

making them (or me) file for a permit afterwards to be able to carry it is horseshit though

I agree 100%. The problem is (at least here in Louisiana) the conceal carry class is a joke especially in terms of firearms handling and shooting. I have been through two of the CC classes.

My permit is good in all 50 states.

People have a right to carry a firearm until they do something that warrants a court judging them unfit to do so, regardless of whether or not they've taken some "classroom instruction" of questionable value.

Just like they have the freedom of movement, freedom of speech, freedom of assembly, and right to vote, until they do something that causes a court to adjudicate they are too irresponsible to exercise these rights.

lol. Fly into New York , New Jersey, Washington DC with your pistol in checked baggage

'Thin blue line' my ass:

https://www.captainsjournal.com/2021/04/13/texas-police-on-permitless-carry-in-texas/

HAPPENING NOW: Police association members and chiefs from Dallas, Houston, Austin, and San Antonio are holding a news conference at the Capitol to speak out against a bill allowing permitless carry of firearms. #txlege pic.twitter.com/CLLD7IPJvu

— Reena Jade Diamante (@reenajade) April 13, 2021

Is anyone surprised that Texas police would oppose the exercise of God-given rights without their approval?

BS.

Learning to handle and situational shooting a firearm is a personal responsibility.

Firearm training only goes so far.

We MUST even the playing field between the criminals who carry, and allowing law abiding citizens to carry without harassment.

How much formal training does the criminal element have?

PASS CC NOW!

Those are all liberal schidtholes.

Idiots are falling in line with the very liberals who want them de-funded.

Real smart.

It won't pass this session either. These idiot fake conservatives in the executive branch are all RINOs, and have the conservative grassroots base brainwashed into believing they are conservative and respect your God Given rights.

And all these LEO supporting the Communists actions to keep the citizens disarmed, prove they vote commie, when in the booth, no matter what they tell you to your face. That's your union boys, following their union leader's wishes, because they can't think for them selves. Not all, but most.

I don't see how we are in conflict here

Follow the money. The instructors do not want people, to not have to get a course ,they make money on.

Democrat politicians wanting to limit gun rights. Who is surprised by this. The big cities in Texas are liberal [bleep].
Hasbeen

I knew a girl once that did not know how to drive a standard transmission.

People had offered to show her time and time again. She simply did not want to learn.

Someone grabbed her up late one night... took her to a remote area and raped her.

She had a chance to Escape her assailant at one point Ibut could not drive a manual transmission.

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The dentist told my son that he did not have to brush all of his teeth... only the ones that he wanted to keep.

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People need to make their own decisions about what is important to them.

When another person makes a decision or a law on your behalf it is almost never useful or helpful.

Exactly.

Wrong. Constitutional carry is the law in 19 states with more having passed it and waiting to come into law. When Tennessee implements theirs I'll be able to go into any state that touches mine and still carry without a permit. I usually don't carry because I'm a homebody and avoid schithole areas, but it's good to know I can when I choose to.

Iowa's Governor just signed Constitutional Carry.