Texas Gun Rights already warned that James Talarico is no moderate on the Second Amendment.
But a new report from the New York Post pulls back the curtain even further.
According to the report, Talarico hired Ana Lopez — a former leader of the University of Texas “Cocks Not Glocks” protest movement — as a legislative aide in 2019 to help craft gun control legislation.
Talarico did not merely draft anti-gun legislation and cast anti-gun votes in Austin.
He brought an anti-campus-carry activist into his taxpayer-funded office to help build his gun confiscation agenda.
Personnel Is Policy
The “Cocks Not Glocks” movement became infamous at the University of Texas at Austin for handing out thousands of sex toys on campus to protest Texas’ campus carry law, which allows licensed gun owners to carry concealed firearms at public colleges and universities.
The stunt was designed to mock lawful self-defense on campus and ridicule the very idea that licensed gun owners should be allowed to protect themselves.
Lopez was tied directly to that movement.
Then she went to work for James Talarico.
When a politician hires a committed anti-campus-carry activist to help write firearm restrictions, gun owners should take notice.
From Campus Stunt to Capitol Gun Control
According to the New York Post, Lopez helped Talarico craft three firearm restriction bills during his first year in the Texas Legislature.
All three failed, but the bills revealed the mindset behind Talarico’s operation.
Lopez’s listed work reportedly included proposals to end Texas concealed-carry reciprocity, require background checks for firearm rentals at sport shooting ranges, and make it harder to get a concealed carry license.
This is how the radical Left tries to chip away at the Second Amendment.
They rarely start by saying they want to take your guns. Instead, they call it “common sense,” “gun safety,” or “reform” while working to make it harder, riskier, and more expensive for law-abiding citizens to keep and bear arms.
Talarico’s Moderate Act Keeps Falling Apart
Texas Gun Rights previously reported that James Talarico opposed efforts to pass Constitutional Carry, and backed radical legislation like red flag-style gun confiscation schemes, bans on commonly owned firearms, gun owner registration schemes, storage mandates, and other restrictions on law-abiding Texans.
Now this New York Post report reveals who Talarico trusted to help shape his gun policy from the beginning.
He was not simply another Democrat casting anti-gun votes in Austin. He hired someone tied to one of the most juvenile anti-gun protest movements in Texas history and put her to work helping draft gun control bills.
That destroys the carefully polished image Talarico is trying to sell.
He wants Texans to believe he is a reasonable, faith-talking moderate who respects the Second Amendment. But when it came time to build his gun policy operation, he brought in a “Cocks Not Glocks” activist.
The Gun Confiscation Lobby Knows What It Is Doing
The gun confiscation lobby learned from Beto O’Rourke.
They know Texas voters are not going to reward a candidate who openly says, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15.”
So now they use softer words, hide behind “public safety,” talk about “reasonable reforms,” and claim they are not interested in taking anyone’s guns while pushing the same old gun confiscation agenda behind the scenes.
Universal gun registration schemes disguised as background checks.
Red flag-style gun confiscation orders without due process.
Bans on commonly owned semi-automatic firearms.
Magazine bans.
Restrictions on lawful carry.
Licensing traps.
Attacks on shooting ranges, private transfers, and the everyday exercise of the Second Amendment.
Texas Gun Owners Deserve the Truth
“This is not just another vote on Talarico’s record. It shows severe lack in judgement in someone he trusted to build his gun confiscation agenda,” said Chris McNutt, President of Texas Gun Rights.
Texas Gun Rights already warned that replacing John Cornyn with James Talarico would not be a Second Amendment victory.
It would mean trading a Republican who caved to the gun confiscation lobby for a Democrat who openly carries their agenda.
Gun owners fired Cornyn because they refused to forget his betrayals.
Now Talarico’s record must follow him everywhere, too.
The gun confiscation lobby is not giving up on Texas. If they can send James Talarico to Washington, they will have a reliable vote for their national gun ban agenda.
Texas cannot let that happen.
Texas Gun Rights will keep exposing the gun grabbers, mobilizing pro-gun Texans, and holding anti-gun politicians accountable — without compromise.
Chip in today to help Texas Gun Rights expose James Talarico and the gun confiscation lobby before November.
