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Hello everyone,

Here are some suggestions for 2007:

1. (Alcohol Beverage Code, § 11.041) Make the definition of "premises" exclude the parking or common areas of a 'licensed premise' in the Alcoholic Beverage Code. This would conform it to the definition in the carry law. As the law stands, it is a felony to pull into a gas station that sells alcohol with a gun in your car (unless you have a CHL).

2. (Penal Code, §46.01(16)) Add the word "metal" before "projectile" in the zip gun statute, which, by the interpretation of some police departments around the state, makes any homemade gun, like a spud gun, a felony. What is essentially a physics experiment becomes felonious.

3. (Penal Code, §22.05(c)) Repeal the deadly conduct statute; it invites prosecutions anytime anyone sees someone else with a gun; they lie and say "he pointed it at me." In the same vein, such lies also can be charged as aggravated assaults. So we need to amend the assault statute to make it clear that an assault with a firearm requires a discharge. These type of prosecutions occur with a great degree of frequency, and few have the money to go to trial and few want to risk a felony conviction by doing so.

4. (Penal Code, §46.13) Repeal or amend the child access law to make it make sense, and to make it legal to give your kid a rifle for his birthday again.

Stay safe...

SteyrM40