Apparently the "just in" news report that I heard was from the near future. Later last night I heard another report that said that the Texas state legislature had passed the bill and that the Governor had said that he would sign it into law. So I was a few days early with the news.
Still I don't think it is a good idea, especially with all of the nervous California residents that have moved into that state lately. They just might go out and buy semi-automatic hand guns for defense against the resident Rebels.
The trouble that we have in the San Francisco Bay Area is that when the bullets go flying around here, the people that usually get shot are innocent bystanders. Apparently the criminals doing the shooting have never had any training on how to do anything except pulling a trigger, other than playing shoot'em up video games and watching NCIS LA on TV.
However, they do know which direction that the bullets come out of and rarely manage to shoot themselves. Too bad.
About 25 years ago my daughter worked for a transportation engineering company as both an office manager and an intersection traffic counter in Seattle. At one time they were specializing in analyzing municipal bus routes to determine which ones could be deleted or rerouted for better efficiency. The company would take her along to their dog and pony show as attractive window dressing. She would go all over the U.S. but the one experience that stuck in her mind was a visit to Houston's municipal building. To get to the office that they were visiting in the multi-story building she said that they walked into the ground floor where there was just a receptionist located behind heavy bulletproof glass. After talking to the receptionist through a speaker they were allowed to access the bulletproof elevator and were whisked to the floor of the bus transportation department that they were scheduled to visit. My daughter commented at the time that the city government really knew their visitors.