Biz Journals – by James Jeffrey
Hotels will have to adequately notify guests of gun restrictions or face penalties if a bill becomes law.
House Bill 333, authored by State Rep.Ryan Guillen, D-Rio Grande City, requires hotels that restrict the possession, storage or transporting of firearms to notify guests of such policies on their websites or when confirming reservations. Failure to comply will be a misdemeanor punishable by a fine of up to $100.
Supporters of the bill contend that hotels and lodging businesses may be confusing concealed handgun license holders and gun owners by not disclosing a gun policy in the business transaction’s terms or conditions.
Despite the failure of bills to entice gun manufacturers to Texas, in addition to HB 333 another 14 pro-gun bills passed this session representing a “record number ,” according to Texas GOP Vote, a collaboration of bloggers.
No gun control legislation passed during the regular session, including proposals to restrict private firearm transfers at gun shows, ban standard capacity magazines, reform the state firearms pre-emption law and require drug testing for concealed handgun license applicants, according to the National Rifle Association’s Institute for Legislative Affairs.
The governor has until June 16 if he wishes to veto HB 333. So far he has vetoed two bills, the fewest vetoes since he took office in 2000. He vetoed 83 bills after the 77th regular session in 2001, according to the Texas Tribune.
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Man, what kind of stupid, bullshit gun law are they trying to pass now?
Man, gun control representatives like this one, as the late Dennis Hopper once put it in one of his movies, “are like a turd that just won’t flush”.
The Gun control agenda is DONE! We’ve already had our little talk and debate on it and have clearly said NO BECAUSE IT’S UNCONSTITUTIONAL!!!!
IT’S TIME TO MOVE ON TO MORE PRESSING ISSUES! NO ONE WANTS TO RESTRICT GUNS, YOU STUPID, TREASONOUS, LITTLE PR#@K! STOP BEATING A DEAD HORSE!
RECALL RYAN GUILLEN!
And let that be a lesson to the rest of you puppet faggots in office! NO ONE IN THIS COUNTRY WANTS TO RESTRICT OR GIVE UP THEIR GUNS, LET ALONE ANYONE IN THE STATE OF TEXAS!!! If you attempt to do so, we will be forced to remove you from office and anyone else who sides with you. GET IT! GOT IT! GOOD!!!
This is actually an Anti-Gun Control Bill. It requires Pro-Gun Control hotel chains to disclose their policy to potential customers before they check-in. 🙂
Sorry. My bad. I see the words “politician” and “gun control” and I go crazy.
Either way, there should be no restricting of guns anywhere, especially in hotels which are places in which people spend the night. It is our 2nd Article right to own and carry a firearm for our own protection wherever we go. So this policy bites around the problem rather than attacking the problem itself. Doesn’t really solve much to me.
P.S. Ryan Guillen, I apologize for the harsh words and mistaken intent. These are harsh times we live in. You are saved from being recalled. But let this be a warning to the rest of you gun control politicians.
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The idea is to force them to reveal their gun control policies. People won’t stay at those places. They’ll lose $$$, and be forced to change their “policy”. 😉
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How about the politicians just skip the bullshit and enforce our 2nd Article rights. I’m sick of these baby steps that they try to put into effect when places like hotels and corporations broke the law in the first place by not allowing us to exercise our 2nd Article rights.
Again, instead of legalizing existing laws, why don’t we just enforce the ones we already have! UGH!
Who gives a crap what some hotel’s gun policy is? I’ll bring my guns into my hotel room as I damn well please. Screw their rules. Same with shopping malls et al.
Can’t remember when we last time traveled with guns – we used to shoot open our beer bottles, but have changed that practice since then.
Wow.
I’ve never seen that in a Hotel’s terms and conditions.
One might reasonably presume that if they did not want guns on their* property, that they would make this quite clear with signs and upon any registration service. How else could a customer possibly know about their assinine policy before actually bringing their gun to the premises?
*- I use the term “their” loosely, since I do not believe a mere collection of property with a piece of government privilege-paper constitutes a person. Most hotels are not a person’s or a family’s property, but rather owned by the same banster-backer conglomerate and corporate “families” which have corrupted our Political Class.