{"id":237059,"date":"2013-01-29T12:28:34","date_gmt":"2013-01-29T18:28:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?p=237059"},"modified":"2013-01-30T11:18:08","modified_gmt":"2013-01-30T17:18:08","slug":"east-texan-co-authors-open-carry-bill","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=237059","title":{"rendered":"East Texan Co-Authors Open Carry Bill"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/?attachment_id=237063\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-237063\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ktbb.com\/post\/wp-content\/media\/2013\/01\/Chris-Paddie-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"Chris Paddie\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" class=\"alignleft size-thumbnail wp-image-237063\" \/><\/a>AUSTIN \u2014 Marshall State Representative Chris Paddie has co-authored a House bill that would drastically change gun law in Texas. If the bill passes, licensed concealed handgun owners would no longer be required to conceal their firearms. Paddie says, \u201cMany other states allow their citizens some form of open carry, and in my opinion, Texas should be leading the charge to protect our Second Amendment rights and supporting gun rights.\u201d House bill 700 does not change the licensing or background check requirements for acquiring a handgun or concealed handgun license. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>AUSTIN \u2014 Marshall State Representative Chris Paddie has co-authored a House bill that would drastically change gun law in Texas. If the bill passes, licensed concealed handgun owners would no longer be required to conceal their firearms. Paddie says, \u201cMany other states allow their citizens some form of open carry, and in my opinion, Texas &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/?p=237059\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">East Texan Co-Authors Open Carry Bill<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":12,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[177],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-237059","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-local-news-archive-archives"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-07-05 06:18:13","action":"change-status","newStatus":"trash","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237059","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/12"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=237059"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237059\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":237250,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/237059\/revisions\/237250"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=237059"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=237059"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ktbb.com\/post\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=237059"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}