A bill offering incentives to attract manufacturers of guns, ammo and related hardware to Texas will go to the full Senate for a vote.
would offer tax breakers to firearms makers at a time when other states may shy away from sponsoring the industry and the bill鈥檚 author, Senator Craig Estes of Wichita Falls, calls laws that limit firearms manufacturing 鈥渦nwarranted intrusions.鈥�
鈥淭exas remains a state open to business, committed to free market principles and supportive of its citizens鈥� constitutional rights, especially the Second Amendment," Estes said. "We should welcome these companies that are apparently unwelcome in other states.鈥�
States like Colorado and California already have laws that ban high-capacity ammunition magazines. If passed, the bill will use funds from the Texas Enterprise Fund to attract manufacturers to the state.
passed the with a 3-0 vote. The Senate will vote on the bill in the next few weeks.
