The campaign for safe home gun storage is a small item in the two-year, $250 billion state budget, and it was fiercely opposed by the NRA and gun-rights activists. I hope there is no one discouraging him,” Gyl Switzer, executive director of Texas Gun Sense, said Monday. The proposal for a safe gun storage public service campaign came after the Santa Fe High School shooting. Abbott has line-item veto power in the budget, meaning he could strip out the safe storage campaign without scuttling the entire spending bill. Alice Tripp, legislative director and lobbyist for the Texas State Rifle Association, said the group still opposes the program but isn’t in the business of asking for veto.

Source: National Post May 27, 2019 19:18 UTC