Texas move a bit closer to passing campus carry and open carry bills out of the Texas Senate yesterday, February 12. The committee vote was 7-2.
Campus Carry and Open Carry Pass TX Senate Committe 7-2
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Dean Weingarten has been a peace officer, a military officer, was on the University of Wisconsin Pistol Team for four years, and was first certified to teach firearms safety in 1973.
He taught the Arizona concealed & carry course for fifteen years until the goal of constitutional carry was attained.
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