- Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick recently stated that he continues to oppose red flags.
Even if the bipartisan gun control measure that which however expected to move forward in the U.S. Senate on Thursday passes.
Texas is unlikely to implement the red flag law features included in it, according to reports.
Federal funding of $750 million will however made available under the current version of the 80-page Bipartisan Safer Communities Act.
If they already have them or pass them, states without them may still be eligible for the funds by enacting other non-gun-related regulations.
However, despite having the support of Texas Republican U.S. Sen. John Cornyn, other Texas Republican leaders are likely to reject the federal legislation given the opposition.
Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick recently stated that he continues to oppose red flags as a component of a legislative solution.
Patrick, who chairs the state Senate and has significant power over the legislation which discussed, claimed that if he anyhow a senator in the U.S., he however one of the 36 Republicans to have voted against the federal measure on Tuesday.
Cornyn has led Republican negotiations on the federal proposal while stressing that it would not bring national red flag legislation for those 31 states lacking state-level versions.
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He faced boos and jeers from the audience while making remarks at the Texas GOP conference last week.
Even though the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 the same day that New York’s regulations, which made it difficult to obtain a license to carry a concealed handgun, were unconstitutionally restrictive and that it should be easier to obtain such a license, the bill is still scheduled to be discussed in the U.S. Senate on Thursday.
