Ya gotta love Texas

7 new gun rights bills were signed into law...all good except I have a question with the new suppressor law which basically says if made in Texas it stays in Texas so no $200 fed tax stamp is needed. My understanding is the ATF/feds will and have gone after people so by the time it is all said and done $200 is the least of your worries. Maybe someone else will know better than me as I am not around any stateside LEOs or government officials who can explain how this law can keep the feds off your back and out of your wallet ?

Anyway I have a warm spot in my heart for my birth state even though many many Californians have moved there and are trying to make the place as messed up as California.. Austin Texas is a fine example of which I speak and Houston ain't far behind IMO.. !!

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Thanks y’all! I’ll find out the details on the suppressor and get back atcha.

I kinda need one. Where I live now isn’t too bad busting out the AR or other guns, but we are about to rebuild. Still in the sticks, but on a golf course.

a reply to: 727Sky

new suppressor law which basically says if made in Texas it stays in Texas 

Nice!

originally posted by: 727Sky

I have a question with the new suppressor law which basically says if made in Texas it stays in Texas so no $200 fed tax stamp is needed. My understanding is the ATF/feds will and have gone after people so by the time it is all said and done $200 is the least of your worries. Maybe someone else will know better than me as I am not around any stateside LEOs or government officials who can explain how this law can keep the feds off your back and out of your wallet ?

The Federal Government can't muster the resources to secure the border, where are they going to get the manpower to go after suppressors?

a reply to: 727Sky

Cool so.....I love the gun law's here. But this taking it too far considering the crime rate.

a reply to: 727Sky

Imagine if Texas legislators spend the same amount of time they spend on gun, abortion and voting laws trying to fix their energy crisis. The place would probably be more like a reliable modern state instead of having third world country issues.

a reply to: VictorVonDoom

I knew I had read this someplace ! townhall.com...

Texas Passed a New Law on Suppressors. Stay Away from It.

To purchase one, you need to pay the tax stamp, go through a lengthy and arduous background check process, and have your name added into a federal database managed by the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (ATF). It shouldn't have to be this way, but the regulation exists, and while states are passing suppressor laws of their own, gun owners should be very cautious when thinking about dabbling in purchases that are outside of federal regulations, according to Stephen Gutowski of The Reload.

And by very cautious, he means to stay clear of it—totally.
In 2014, Cox sold Kettler an unregistered silencer after Kansas passed its own law purporting to put the devices beyond federal reach. The sale tangled the two men in a years-long ordeal that ended with life-altering federal convictions for both. And, in 2019, the Supreme Court left those convictions in place when it declined to hear their case.

“I was just collateral damage in this dispute between the state and federal government,” Kettler, now a federal felon serving three years on probation, said after the Court’s decision. He blamed Kansas lawmakers for setting up residents like him to be prosecuted by passing a misleading law.

Anyone telling Texans a state silencer law will protect them from federal prosecution without giving them fair warning of the likely outcome is merely leading them into the same trap, with a lifetime ban on gun ownership waiting at the end of the line.

Maybe Texas has something up their sleeve ?? But I think I would pass on a suppressor unless I would be using on my farm or ranch and it would never leave my property.. Shame as a suppressor is sorely needed at gun ranges and even during hunting.

a reply to: 727Sky

The suppressor part has me not liking this
I have to have mine through the old channels and I did it with ease.

a reply to: 727Sky

Don't get caught up with the suppressor laws.

Something similar got passed in Kansas people have gone to jail.