UPDATE: Ausitn City Councilmember Kathie Tovo told Spectrum News, the city will surely appeal the ruling and continue fighting until guns are once again banned.
A Travis County District Judge has sided with Attorney General Ken Paxton’s legal challenge to the City of Austin restricting citizens right to carry a firearm at city hall. Paxton says . The city of Austin cannot violate the open carry law or any other law the Texas Legislature has enacted simply because they disagree with it. Should the ruling be appeal, Paxton says they will continue the fight.
This all stems from a July 2016 lawsuit filed against the city of Austin, after a resident with a concealed weapons permit, on numerous occasions, was not permitted in City Hall. As a result, the court ruled that they must be fined each day they prevented the AG’s investigators from carrying lawfully, which added up to $9,000.
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