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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is firing backmost astatine nan Biden management and suing them successful an effort to artifact caller requirements for weapon sales.
"Today, myself and nan Attorney General of Kansas announced that we are filing a suit against a caller Biden ATF regularisation that would taxable hundreds of thousands of law-abiding weapon owners to presumptions of criminal guilt for engaging successful nan constitutionally protected backstage waste of firearms," Paxton wrote successful a station connected X.
Paxton was joined by Kansas AG Kris Kobach, during a Wednesday property convention at nan Frisco Gun Club, wherever he stated nan ATF is overstepping its authority aft precocious announcing it was expanding national licensing rules and inheritance checks to see immoderate backstage income of firearms.
"My connection to Joe Biden yesterday, coming and everlastingly is this: Come and return it," Paxton proclaimed.
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Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton is suing nan Biden Administration to artifact caller requirements for weapon sales. (Houston Chronicle)
Paxton's reference to "come and return it" runs heavy successful Texas authorities history.
The building "Come and Take It" dates backmost to King Leonidas I defying nan Persian service to return his army's weapons pinch nan building "Molon labe" astatine nan Battle of Thermopylae, according to nan Houston Chronicle.
However, connected Oct, 2, 1835, that building became portion of Texas pridefulness and a awesome of resilience arsenic a mini group of rebellious colonists successful what is now South Texas defied Mexican rule, named "The Battle of Gonzales." This besides marked nan first subject conflict of nan Texas Revolution.
During nan Battle of Gonzales, they cried retired "Come and return it!" and it became a declaration of Texas' independence.
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Ken Paxton, Texas lawyer general, speaks during nan Conservative Political Action Conference (CPAC) successful Dallas, Texas, U.S., connected Sunday, July 11, 2021. The three-day convention is titled "America UnCanceled." Photographer: Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images (Dylan Hollingsworth/Bloomberg via Getty Images)
The premise of this conflict was focused connected American colonists who were refusing to springiness backmost a cannon, which is seen connected nan flag, to Mexican soldiers that they had received successful 1831 to conflict disconnected Natives successful nan area.
The Chronicle besides reported that nan colonists wanted nan cannon to take sides themselves from Mexican General Antonio López de Santa Anna's progressively fierce actions against them.
The emblem utilized successful that battle, which has go a awesome of Texas pride, was besides nan first emblem utilized successful nan Texas Revolution.
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President Biden / Texas AG Ken Paxton (Al Drago | Brandon Bell/Getty Images)
The phrase, which is now wide used, has travel to symbolize defiance against personification aliases thing looking to deprive you of a correct aliases privilege.
Fast-forward to 2024, Paxton is starring nan complaint for Texas, on pinch Kobach, successful a multi-state conjugation to take sides nan law correct to privately bargain and waste firearms.
The caller ATF argumentation projected by nan Biden administration would require group who waste guns chiefly for profit to registry arsenic licensed dealers, sloppy of wherever nan transactions return place, requiring them to do inheritance checks.
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"Yet again, Joe Biden is weaponizing nan national bureaucracy to rip up nan Constitution and destruct our citizens’ Second Amendment rights," Paxton said. "This is simply a melodramatic escalation of his tyrannical maltreatment of authority. With today’s lawsuit, it is my awesome grant to take sides our Constitutionally-protected freedoms from nan out-of-control national government."
