{"id":54929,"date":"2023-05-17T17:57:22","date_gmt":"2023-05-17T22:57:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=54929"},"modified":"2023-05-17T17:57:22","modified_gmt":"2023-05-17T22:57:22","slug":"texas-88th-legislative-session-tracking-and-anti-tracking","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/?p=54929","title":{"rendered":"Texas 88th Legislative Session: Tracking and Anti-Tracking"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the 88th Texas legislature regular session races toward sine die on May 29, here’s a quick update on two bills that caught my attention:<\/p>\n

  • The senate is debating a bill to prevent banks from tracking firearms purchases<\/a>. Good. We should not be letting the government set up a gun confiscation list, or banks a list to start banning law-abiding gun owners based on the goal of goosing their ESG scores.\n
  • There’s a very poorly thought-out bill passed by the House to track every single precious metal sale to a jeweler<\/a>. This is a bad idea. You start tracking precious metal sales and you end up with governments seizing precious metals, because it’s happened before<\/a>. <\/li>\n

    Here’s an idea: How about government refrain from tracking anything<\/i> except if it’s necessary and proper to perform constitutionally enumerated duties? <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    As the 88th Texas legislature regular session races toward sine die on May 29, here’s a quick update on two bills that caught my attention: The senate is debating a bill to prevent banks from tracking firearms purchases. Good. We … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"iawp_total_views":16,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1335,24,255,18,12,1],"tags":[9304,7765,404,37,2868,2865,7291,2861],"class_list":["post-54929","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-obama-scandals","category-obamacare","category-regulation","category-republicans","category-texas","category-uncategorized","tag-88th-texas-legislative-session","tag-environmental-social-governance-esg","tag-gold","tag-gun-control","tag-guns","tag-republicans","tag-silver","tag-texas"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54929","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=54929"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54929\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":54936,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/54929\/revisions\/54936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=54929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=54929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.battleswarmblog.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=54929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}