By Dave Workman
Editor-in-Chief
Democrats who will soon control more state legislatures and governors’ offices are wasting no time shifting away from campaign rhetoric about affordability, health care, equal rights and the economy, and going right back to their anti-gun-rights agenda, a national grassroots gun rights organization is warning.
Fox News is reporting how Democrats, who will soon be in control of Congress and a majority of governorships and state legislatures, will “will shape redistricting and election rules ahead of 2028.”
The situation has the grassroots Citizens Committee for the Right to Keep and Bear Arms (CCRKBA) sounding the alarm.
Already, in Texas where Democrats will now control the state House of Representatives, at least 16 gun control measures have been introduced. They include:
House Bill 173, which would make it a felony to transfer a semiautomatic rifle that takes a detachable magazine and is larger than .22 caliber to anyone under 21. There are exceptions for peace officers, current or honorably discharged military, and some temporary loans at a range or for hunting;
HB 576, barring registered sex offenders from buying a firearm, but only for registration based on an offense committed on or after Sept. 1, 2027;
HB 606, to prohibit the transfer of firearms to, or the purchase or possession of, firearms by persons younger than 21 years of age;
HB 609 would increase the criminal penalty for making a firearm accessible to a child;
HB 610 would prohibit the transfer of firearms to certain people under 21 years of age;
HB 612 would prohibit a sex offender from possessing firearms;
HB 613, which would require a national instant criminal background check for private firearm transfers;
House Bill 618, restricting the transfer of firearm magazines to people who are prohibited from possessing the type of firearm the magazine is made for, and would create a criminal offense.
House Bill 658 would change the prosecution and punishment for making a firearm accessible to a child increasing a criminal penalty;
House Bill 659, would require a licensed firearms dealer to report certain sales or transfers of multiple firearms or firearm magazines to law enforcement and creates a criminal offense.
House Bill 660, requiring “certain people” already barred from owning or possessing a firearm to dispose of firearms they own, possess, or control.
Other bills already prefiled include HB 857, HB 806, HB 859, HB 771, HB 712 and HB 776.
But Texas isn’t the only bad news on the Second Amendment landscape. The Fox report also indicated anti-gun measures are being eyeballed in Minnesota and Arizona. Democrats now control both legislative chambers in 24 states, including Minnesota, Wisconsin, Michigan, New Hampshire and Pennsylvania. They also hold a majority of governorships. North Carolina has a split legislature, and races in Georgia and Alaska are still too close to call.
“We’re looking at a dire situation,” CCRKBA Executive Director Andrew Gottlieb said in a statement to the media. “We fully expect anti-gunners in all Democrat-controlled legislatures to push an extremist agenda, which could include—depending upon the state—efforts to roll back state firearm preemption statutes which prohibit cities and counties from adopting their own more restrictive local gun control laws, reverse Constitutional carry laws, add permit-to-purchase requirements, ban so-called ‘assault weapons,’ and add other possible restrictions.
“Fox News on Tuesday reported that Democrats now control 24 state houses, while Republicans hold 22,” he continued. “Texas and North Carolina have split legislatures, and we’re still waiting for vote outcomes in Alaska and Georgia. Essentially, the Second Amendment community is facing a nationwide emergency, so it’s all hands on deck.”
Gottlieb said CCRKBA is monitoring every state, watching for anti-gun legislation which might be pre-filed as January legislative sessions loom on the political horizon. He anticipates a flood of restrictive proposals which may seem benign on paper, but will be malignant in practice.
“Our state affiliates—our boots on the ground grassroots organizations—are preparing for action in every state capital,” he observed. “Democrats campaigned on affordability, health care, and civil rights, but now that they’ve won, they are focusing on long-standing agenda items including gun restrictions, gun bans and trampling on the rights of law-abiding gun owners.”
