Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights
Live to Shoot - Defending our 2nd Amendment Rights
Texas Legalizes Sawed Off Shotguns
In this episode we discuss the recent approved Texas law that legalizes short barreled rifles and shotguns.
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Well, welcome to the Lived Shoe Podcast. My name is Jeff Dole and I've been a licensed firearm dealer for the last 18 years, and this podcast we talk about all things related to Second Amendment. As well as anything else going on in the world, a sports story or anything else I might find interesting. So welcome, welcome, welcome. I'm here to bring you the latest on our God-given rights to keep and bear arms. Today we're gonna talk some big news out of my state, the Lone Star state. I. That as some people fired up. But, you know, I want us to slower roll as we dig into this because some of it's just, you know, Texas fixing something that should have never been broken. So what is it? Well, Texas last week passed a law legalizing short billed rifles and shotguns. And what does that mean? What's that mean for the Second Amendment? Well, we're gonna dig into it, so let's go. So on May 27th the Texas House passed Senate bill 1596, removing short barrel firearms, you know, rifles and with barrels under 16 inches, or overall length under 26, and shotguns with barrels under 18 inches, or overall length under 26 inches from the state's prohibitive. Weapons list. Now the bills on Governor Abbott's desk waiting for his signature. And if signed, it'll take effect September 1st, 2025. So you know. What's this all mean? Well, for those of you don't know short barreled rifles are often called, you know, saw off shotguns or rifles have been tightly regulated since the NFA Act of 1934. Federally, you can own them, but you've got to deal with the background checks. The 200 tech stamp, a TF registration on an NFA and. Other things such as that in Texas, it's been a state felony to possess these unless they're federally registered or classified as a curio. Our relic now Senate bill 15 9 6 changes that by decriminalizing these firearms at the state level. But lemme be clear. Even if this bill becomes law, you'll still have to register for the short bail rifles shotguns with the A TF. The federal NFA rules and failure to do will still be a crime. So what does this all mean? Well, like I said, Texas has made'em illegal even though. Previously you can still own a short bail rifle or shotgun if you went through the registration process with the NFA. Now, to my knowledge, Texas has not enforced this because I have transferred many a short bail rifles to people and had people have filed and made their own SPRs. All through Texas, and I have not heard one story of one person ever being arrested and prosecuted in Texas for having a short bail rifle that violates Texas law while it's still law and federal while it's still legal federally. So what's this mean? Texas is just trying to screw fix something that they've had screwed up for a long time. There is no instance where in Texas. Our Second amendment rights should be worse than they are at the federal level. That is the lone star state. And so finally they've gotten this right because you know, if. The short act, and we'll talk about that here in a minute ever gets passed. It would still be, and, and the current laws still be illegal in Texas. So the Short Act is a federal law that is supposed to be, they've been trying to remove these SPRs and short bail shotguns out of the NFA much like they just did. With the new budget reconciliation bill for silencers. They could not get the SPRs into the budget reconciliation bill because there were just, they didn't get the votes. There were too many Republicans that didn't, they said, well, okay, we can see about, you know, removing silencers from the SBA from the NFA. But these SPRs, they're horrible. Which is totally messed up thinking you've got a legal rifle. And you got a legal pistol, but you can't have something that's a rifle that's short and not even as short as a pistol. And if they say it's, you know, it's'cause it's concealable. Well, pistols are designed to be concealable, so there is no, reason why these are should be as part of the NFA, but Texas, at least, we're finally getting our act together after many, many years of having this done. And it, it's a, it's a win. We're gonna call it a win. You know, state senator Brent Haba, he's been pushing this said the simple truth is rifles are never a problem. Continue not to be a problem. And he's right. Sho well rifles. Short barrel firearms are compact and rural and perfect for self dispense, especially in close quarters. So, you know, this bill, it's all about fairness and freedom. Short barrel rifles are great for home defense, easy to handle, and, and, and they're godsend for those that need help. So we've gotta get it signed off of Governor Abbott's desk, but we've gotta have a call to action folks for all of you out there to get. Short bail rifles removed from the NFA that is just the next step. We're gonna, hopefully we can get the silencers out with this and maybe, I don't know, maybe the Senate will go into the reconciliation bill and edit it and, and come back and add the SPRs into it. I don't know, I don't see the senators having that mu that much backbone in them, but maybe they do. Maybe they do. I don't know. But. For now, at least in Texas if they ever do it, then you don't have to worry about it becoming a problem at, at a state level. So let's keep going, keep fighting for our rights. This is a, this is a small win. It just makes me less embarrassed just about our Texas loss to be honest. And let's keep fighting and have a good week, and I will talk to you later.
