Only have a limited amount of time before lunch is over and I have to return to the helium mines of Ceti Alpha V, but I wanted to get this up before it disappears behind the Statesman paywall:
Travis County commissioners voted unanimously to allow the Saxet Gun Show to continue at the county-run Exposition Center, only if all gun sales undergo a background check.
With Commissioners Ron Davis and Bruce Todd absent from Tuesday’s meeting, the rest of the county commissioners approved the contract, which now goes to Saxet officials to consider.
So three out of five voted? I guess that’s a quorum. (And I just noticed I missed updating the list of commissioners for Bruce Todd. Fixing that now.)
However, Saxet still has to agree to the contract, and the Statesman represents them as consistently stating they will not agree to a contract that requires background checks. Williamson County is looking better and better all the time.
(I’ll have to see if I can find a breakdown of some of the previous votes for y’all.)
Damnit, move the show to Hays county. Shorter drive for me.
I’d go for that, too. I’d go for any surrounding county other than Travis.
I’d even go for a private venue in Travis County if there’s one available.
I really do need to get that vote breakdown together for folks, so we can figure out who our friends are.
They had it at a private venue on North Lamar (the old HEB) for years until Art Acevedo tried the same strongarm tactics that the travis county guys are doing. HEB corp still owns the property, and Art Acevedo threatened HEB with prosecution if any guns sold at the gunshow was ever tied to a crime, unless they forced SAXET to have background checks on all sales.
So HEB corp put that in the lease agreement. That lasted one show, until someone took a deal to the parking lot, and the APD arrested them on Criminal Trespass charges.
Acevedo is a statist thug.
“Acevedo is a statist thug.”
He’s also from California. Wait, are “statist thug” and “Californian” redundant?