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(AUSTIN, TX May 4, 2017) State Representative Justin Holland (R-Heath) recently passed House Bill 3784, relating to persons approved by the Department of Public Safety (DPS) to administer online the classroom instruction part of the handgun proficiency course.

HB 3784 allows for an approved online course provider to administer the classroom instruction part and written portion of the handgun proficiency course in an online format, in an attempt to ease access to the handgun safety and training course required to obtain a License to Carry (LTC). The Department of Public Safety uses similar learning methods for driver education, driver safety, and Alcohol and Drug Awareness.

With over one million LTC holders in the State of Texas, Im proud to author an important piece of legislation that expands access to LTC classes through online training, while still providing beneficial handgun training on the firing range, said State Rep. Justin Holland.

HB 3784 now heads to the upper chamber where State Senator Van Taylor (R-Plano) is sponsoring the legislation.

Access to our Second Amendment rights should not require law abiding citizens to jump through government regulations. As we seek to expand our second amendment freedoms, this is a commonsense accommodation that will allow LTC applicants to complete the classroom portion of the LTC class and written test online, Sen. Taylor said.

Click here to track the status of HB 3784.

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When our nations Founding Fathers wrote our Constitution, they added the Second Amendment for a reason: The right of the people to keep and bear arms.

They stated emphatically in that sacred amendment that that right should not be infringed upon.

More than 200 years later, we agree with the Founders wishes and wholeheartedly respect the Second Amendment and all that it represents.

There are some people in this country who have total disdain and contempt for the Second Amendment. If they had it their way, it would be totally thrown out the window and every law-abiding citizen would have their guns confiscated by the federal government.

We suspect former President Barack Obama is one of those people.

He believed more gun laws, executive orders on guns and restricting law-abiding citizens from buying guns were the way to keep America safe.

He couldnt have been more wrong.

The former president turned a blind eye to places like his hometown of Chicago, which has some of the strictest gun laws on the books and also has one of the highest murder rates in the country.

Statistics show the majority of these weapons used in these murders in Chicago werent bought legally.

U.S. Sen Marco Rubio, R-Fla., said it best in 2016 when he noted that criminals dont care about that laws we pass with regards to guns, they never follow the law, thats why theyre criminals.

If criminals want a gun badly enough, they will simply buy it illegally. That is just more proof that more executive orders and stricter gun laws dont work.

After eight years of watching a president who had total contempt for the Second Amendment, it is nice to know that we now have a president in Donald Trump who actually gets it and has total respect for gun owners and the Second Amendment.

Speaking at the National Rifle Association annual convention Friday, Trump told the large crowd that the eight-year assault on your Second Amendment freedoms has come to a crashing end.

Trump, the first sitting president to address the groups annual meeting in more than 30 years, assured the audience that he would defend their right to bear arms.

He told the crowd that they have a true friend and champion in the White House.

Trump promised to do away with Obamas efforts to strengthen background checks and to eliminate gun-free zones at schools and military bases.

We applaud Trump for pledging to get rid of these proposals, which actually make citizens less safe.

We believe Trump is an ardent supporter not only of the Second Amendment but for gun owners and will be a true friend to that very large group of people during his presidency.

What a very nice, welcome change!

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The other plaintiffs includeThe Calguns Foundation, the Firearms Policy Coalition, and the Firearms Policy Foundation.

According to CBS SF Bay Area, the suit is filed against Attorney General Xavier Becerra. AttorneyGeorge Lee is representing the plaintiffs and contends that the high-capacity magazine ban violates [the plaintiffs] Second Amendment right to bear arms.

The Firearms Policy Coalition announced the lawsuit and explained the circuitous route which Democrats traveled to secure the magazine ban:

Last year, California Governor Jerry signed into law Senate Bill 1446 (SB 1446), which changed state statutes to completely ban law-abiding people from possessing all large-capacity firearm magazines as of July 1, 2017. Following that, Lt. Governor Gavin Newsoms Proposition 63 (Prop 63) Safety For All Act gun control initiativewhich also contained language banning large-capacity magazineswas passed by voters in the November general election.

Firearms Policy Coalition notes that the thousands of law-abiding Californians who own high-capacity magazines now must remove them from their possession or ownership in the State by July 1 at their own expense or face criminal liability and fines. Again law-abiding citizens must surrender their magazines or destroy them at their own expense.

The plaintiffs contend that the high-capacity magazine ban violates Second Amendment rights by taking away an essential for semi-automatic firearms. They claim such magazines are an intrinsic part of all semi-automatic firearms and are not merely individual pieces of personal property, but rather, are intrinsic and inherent constitutionally-protected parts of constitutionally-protected firearms.

Attorney George Lee added, Not only does the ban infringe on Second Amendment rights, but it is clearly now a taking of private property. Lee points out the suit actually goes further by claiming that the ban amounts to a de facto confiscation.

AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and host of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

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This is the same position our Founding Fathers held; the same position they all supported with their signatures when signing the Declaration of Independence, which says:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed.

It is crucial to note two things in this portion of the Declaration: 1. Thomas Jefferson sourced our rights in our Creator, not in government or in a majority vote of the population. 2. Jefferson sourced governments power in the people.In other words, governments possess powers, not rights, and the U.S. government only has power because the people lend it a portion of the authority that they possess by birth.

And the authority which the people lend government never communicates permission to infringe on the rights with which the people were endowed. (This is why James Madison used Federalist 46 to stress that ultimate authorityresides in the people alone.)

Enter Marty Daniel of Daniel Defense. Marty told Breitbart News that the Second Amendment must be protected because it is sourced in our Creator. He juxtaposed Second Amendment rights with the gospel and said that he views it as his job to protect both because both flow to us from God.

Marty said, We are in business, we believe, to be a supporter of the gospel. And, therefore, a supporter of the Second Amendment. In other words, not only do we have these Second Amendment rights because God gives them to us but also the gospel. Marty went on to stress his conviction that Daniel Defense [supports] the freedom of the gospel by supporting the Second Amendment.

It is interesting to note that President Donald Trump struck a similar tone when speaking to the NRA-ILA Leadership Forum on April 28. Trump said, Freedom is not a gift from government, freedom is a gift from God.

AWR Hawkins is the Second Amendment columnist for Breitbart News and thehost of Bullets with AWR Hawkins, a Breitbart News podcast. He is also the political analyst for Armed American Radio. Follow him on Twitter: @AWRHawkins. Reach him directly at awrhawkins@breitbart.com.

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