Texas House passes bill to legalize short-barrel firearms

GOP Lawmaker Defends Legalizing 'Sawed-Off' Shotguns: 'We Just Don't Have That Kind of Gangland-Style Shooting These Days'

Texas lawmakers passed Senate Bill 1596, a measure that removes short-barrel firearms, known as sawed-off shotguns, from the state's prohibited weapons list.

Texas House passes bill to legalize short-barrel firearms

"Sawed-off" shotguns may soon be legal in Texas after the House passed a bill that expands the types of firearms legally allowed in the state.

Suppressor tax, registration gone, but what about short-barreled long

by Dean Rieck and Joe D. "Buck" RuthIn a historic vote last week, the U.S. House of Representatives passed H.R.1, known as the "One Big Beautiful Bill Act (Read our story on that)." The bill, which has moved on to the Senate, included the Hearing Protection Act (H.R.404) to remove firearm suppressors from the National Firearm Act’s (NFA) burdensome regulatory framework. But it did not include the SHORT Act (H.R.2395) to delist short-barreled rif…