Incoming Democratic leaders put their names on gun registration and red flag confiscation bills. Republicans still hold the Senate, and Texas Gun Rights is demanding they refuse every gun control compromise.
The politicians who backed red flag gun confiscation are about to take control of the Texas Governor’s mansion and preside over the Texas Senate.
Texas gun owners suffered a major setback on November 3. Election results put Democrats in every statewide executive office, while Democrats are will control the Texas House.
Gina Hinojosa will replace Greg Abbott as Governor. Vikki Goodwin will replace Dan Patrick as Lieutenant Governor. Nathan Johnson will become Attorney General.
But Republicans held their majority in the Texas Senate.
That majority is now the last legislative firewall against a gun confiscation lobby with its biggest opening in decades. Texas Gun Rights is calling on gun owners to make sure it holds.
Their Gun Control Agenda Is Already Known
The incoming leadership’s support for gun control is not speculation. It is documented in legislation they helped write.
Goodwin authored House Bill 432 in 2025, which would have enacted universal gun registration by criminalizing private firearm transfers that don’t first go through a licensed dealer’s background check.
Red flag confiscation has an equally clear paper trail.
In 2019, Democrat State Rep. Joe Moody authored House Bill 131, establishing a proposed system of extreme risk protective orders, better known as “Red Flag” gun confiscation without due process. Hinojosa and Goodwin were coauthors.
The bill’s text authorized firearm confiscations without first notifying the gun owner or holding a hearing. It would require firearms to be surrendered to law enforcement without any finding of criminal wrongdoing.
Goodwin later authored her own red flag proposal, HB 478 in 2025. Moody filed another version, HB 893.
They also targeted young adults’ access to commonly owned rifles. Moody’s HB 1556 and Goodwin’s HB 384, both filed in 2025, proposed prohibiting transfers of specified semiautomatic rifles to military-aged people younger than 21.
These politicians did not merely applaud gun control from the sidelines; they spearheaded it.
The Speaker’s Race Does Not Change the Threat
According to Quorum Report’s November 5 reporting, sources close to State Rep. Senfronia Thompson expect her to announce November 6 that she has enough support to become the next House Speaker.
Whether Thompson ultimately claims the gavel or another Democrat emerges, the legislative record is already clear.
Hinojosa, Goodwin, Moody, and Thompson all voted against Constitutional Carry in 2021. All four also opposed legislation protecting hotel guests’ ability to carry and store handguns and ammunition.
Hinojosa, Goodwin, and Thompson additionally voted against removing the special criminal prohibition on licensed handgun carry in places of worship.
The Attorney General’s office presents another concern: the office currently home to Ken Paxton, the nation’s most pro-gun Attorney General, will now be held by Nathan Johnson.
Johnson’s own published positions also include universal gun registration, “red flag” gun confiscation, waiting periods, and permitting requirements.
Republicans Must Refuse the “Common Ground” Trap
Universal gun registration and red flag confiscation are the biggest immediate threats gun owners must put first.
They are also the proposals Republicans too often entertain when they start looking for “common ground” with the gun confiscation lobby.
A Republican Senate majority guarantees nothing if its members negotiate away the rights they were elected to defend. Gun owners cannot accept registration or confiscation simply because a Republican helped write the compromise.
“The Senate is now the last firewall between Texas gun owners and the gun confiscation lobby’s agenda,” said Texas Gun Rights President Chris McNutt.
“Every Senator who claims to support the Second Amendment is going to have to prove it. No common ground. No compromise. Do not give an inch.”
That means stopping registration and red flag confiscation outright, defending Constitutional Carry, and rejecting bans on America’s most popular rifle and standard-capacity magazines.
Gun Owners Still Have Pro-Gun Legislators
November 3 was a serious defeat, but it was not a total defeat.
23 Texas House candidates and four Texas Senate candidates listed on TXGR’s One Big Beautiful Ballot won their races. That means they’ve given written survey commitments meeting TXGR’s 100% pro-gun standards.
The Senate winners include Bob Hall, David Cook, Trent Ashby, and Brett Ligon. House winners include Brian Harrison, Brent Money, Cole Hefner, Katrina Pierson, Wes Virdell, Mike Olcott, Shelley Luther, Andy Hopper, Mitch Little, Carrie Isaac, David Lowe, and Mark Dorazio, among others.
Those commitments give gun owners firm ground to stand upon.
With bill filing opening on Monday November 9 for the session beginning January 12, 2027, we will be counting on these legislators to not only hold the line on gun rights but also to continue going on the offensive.
Regarding the Republican Senators, we cannot allow their remaining majority to negotiate away our freedoms. Gun owners must make the Senate firewall hold.
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