Briscoe Cain - Texas State Representative Joins Houston's Morning News

Episode Transcript

Speaker 1 (00:01):
Six, twenty three is our time here in Houston's twenty News.
Texas State Representative risk Ocine has put a new measure in.
It's targeting the state fair gun ban, and it also
expands Second Amendment protections. He's here to tell us about
the bill. Briscoe, Welcome to the program, Sarah, good to
have you back. Howdy howdy, hey, good morning, Dune perfect

(00:22):
perfectly said for the State Fair of Texas. So the
band went into effects. I think was last year, right
that the band went into effect at the State Fair.

Speaker 2 (00:32):
Yeah, yeah, here's essentially what we've figured out. Right, if
you're a license holder out there now, we're talk about
cost scare, we talking about the license care, you know,
whether that's concealed or open. You know, there's certain places
you can go, there's certain buildings. You can't go to
the courthouse, but you can go to other government buildings.
And so we were all assuming that the state fair

(00:52):
grounds or government property. Well, it turns out that apparently
private instities can contract your rights away, right, and so
that's problematic. You may recall from last year, we're all
trying to go to state Fair. All of a sudden,
firearms are banned in the state fair and we'll bring
a lawsuit and we lose at the Supreme Court or
the attorney general does and so we had to file

(01:13):
a bill for it to fix it. It essentially says, look, hey,
it's taxpayer property. You get to have your rights there, right.
The government can't not contract away your rights just because
someone's renting the space. It still belongs to you. Can
you get to carry your weapon there?

Speaker 1 (01:31):
Let me ask you this then, because as you know,
there's a lot of businesses of signs right onder doors,
you know, conceal carry signs that you can't bring a
weapon into their business. Does that change under this bill
or not?

Speaker 2 (01:42):
No, because you wouldn't be able to put that up really,
But one the bill does rive you from doing that.
But this is government owned property, right rather taxpayer owned property.
This is not a purely private business. The private business
at the moment is using the taxpayer property, but it
still belongs to the peoples. The people's rights should not
be changed.

Speaker 1 (02:01):
So private business owners in Texas who want to be
able to maintain if no concealed carry in their business
can continue to do so. We're just talking about the
public entities places that are owned by us, the taxpayers.

Speaker 2 (02:16):
Yes, the government owns it. Just because some private individuals
using it for a moment does not change your rights
as to the use of that property. So if you
have to have your firearm, that place is still a
safe place.

Speaker 1 (02:28):
Okay, So it's House Bill seventeen fifteen. When do you
plan to introduce it? I guess it probably already has
been introduced. Man, Yeah, do you expect it to safely
make it to the House floor?

Speaker 2 (02:39):
I mean I expect it to do fine. Hey, well
that really depends. Right on the fourteenth, we're electing our speaker. Guys.
I know those in this audience are probably supporting David
Cook or hoping the representatives do. There's two Republicans running.
There's only one real Republican running because there's only one
that fits the Republican Party platform that has been properly
nominated by a majority of Republicans. So if we get
that done, I believe absolutely so.

Speaker 1 (03:01):
All right, well, check back with you. Thank you, so appreciated.
Texas State representative from Deer Park, that is Briscoe Caine.