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Parade Of Open-Carry Bills Exposes Divide In Ranks

As momentum grows behind a push to let Texans carry handguns openly, the biggest fight may be among Second Amendment advocates themselves.

A conflict is emerging over how far changes to the current state law should go, and some gun-rights supporters fear that the divide may sink efforts to lift handgun restrictions during the legislative session that begins in January.

If the acrimony between the various groups gets too pronounced, then nothing will pass, said Land Commissioner Jerry Patterson, who helped get the states concealed handgun law passed in 1995, when he was a state senator. Their challenge very simply is to recognize that the legislative process is designed to kill legislation and to drop their disagreements, even if its not perfect.

The law allows the open carrying of long guns like rifles and shotguns. Texas is one of six states that specifically prohibit the open carrying of handguns, according to the Law Center to Prevent Gun Violence.

In the last two legislative sessions, Texas lawmakers have unsuccessfully pushed to allow handgun license holders to openly carry their firearms. Five nearly identical bills that would do that have already been filed.

A sixth, from state Rep. Jonathan Stickland, a Republican, would allow Texans to carry a handgun openly without a license.

There are a lot of people who are sick and tired of paying a fee for their basic rights and liberties, Stickland said. Its rejecting the notion that we need to beg government for permission to do things like protect ourselves.

Sticklands proposal has attracted the support of activists who object to the costs of obtaining a concealed handgun license and the restrictions the state places on applicants.

C.J. Grisham, a retired Army officer who founded Open Carry Texas last spring after he was arrested while walking near his home with an AR-15, said his group would oppose any bill that stopped short of allowing what he called the constitutional carry of handguns. (Grisham was fined $2,000.)

We will not compromise on our rights, he said. "We absolutely will not."

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Missouri Supreme Court Takes Second Amendment Case

SPRINGFIELD, Mo. -- The question of whether felons should be allowed to own firearms is being addressed in a case on the Missouri Supreme Court docket.

It plans to take up the case Tuesday.

Cases involving not just constitutional rights, but the right to bear arms, always carry a lot of weight.

This particular case also involves rights or the limited rights of convicted felons.

Starting Tuesday, the Missouri Supreme Court will begin hearing the case State of Missouri v. Marcus Merritt, out of St. Louis.

Merritt was convicted in 1986 of illegal distribution of PCP.

January last year the state charged Merritt with three counts of illegal possession of a firearm.

Merritt wants those charges dismissed.

He believes the statute that states it is illegal for felons to have firearms violates his inalienable constitutional right to bear arms.

That case will be heard by the Missouri Supreme Court next week.

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