AUSTIN – After giving Waller County final notice to comply with the state's licensed-carry laws, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton on Tuesday sued the county to bring it into compliance with the law.
Paxton's suit requires the county to allow citizens to carry firearms in the areas of the Waller County Courthouse that contain non-judicial county administrative offices, such as the county clerk, county treasurer and county election offices.
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The state's licensed-carry law allows government entities to exclude guns from the portion of a building housing an office utilized by a government court, but Paxton said treasurer offices and election offices do not qualify for that exclusion.
“A local government cannot be allowed to flout Texas’s licensed-carry laws, or any state law, simply because it disagrees with the law or doesn’t feel like honoring it,” Paxton said. “I will vigilantly protect and preserve the Second Amendment rights of Texans.”
Paxton filed a similar suit recently against the city of Austin, which claims its city hall is a government court.