Gun rights activist Chris McNutt says Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen lied about confrontation

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Texas Tribune by Alex Samuels April 23, 2019

Weeks after getting in a confrontation with Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen at a closed-door Republican dinner, gun rights activist Chris McNutt asked for an apology for what he said amounted to having his name “dragged through the mud.”

“They’ve painted this narrative of this outraged gun activist,” McNutt told The Texas Tribune after a press conference he had Tuesday afternoon inside the JW Marriott hotel in downtown Austin. “It just makes me looks like a complete nut job.”

During Tuesday’s news conference, McNutt accused Bonnen, R-Angleton, of lying when he told Lubbock radio host Chad Hasty that the gun rights activist “flashed his gun” when he visited lawmakers’ local district offices. McNutt said he was unarmed during such visits.

Rather than comment on claims McNutt made this afternoon, a spokeswoman for Bonnen said that “it appears someone has forgotten the law of holes.”

“If you find yourself in a hole, stop digging,” Bonnen spokeswoman Cait Meisenheimer said in a statement to The Texas Tribune.

Bonnen previously accused the gun rights activist of using intimidation tactics to get a bill McNutt supports through the legislature. McNutt, the executive director of Texas Gun Rights, blames Bonnen for inaction on “constitutional carry” legislation that would allow Texans to carry guns without a permit.

More: https://www.texastribune.org/2019/04/23/texas-house-speaker-dennis-bonnen-lied-says-gun-rights-activist/

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DPS Footage Contradicts Media Narrative Regarding Constitutional Carry Advocate

Texas Scorecard By Brandon Waltens April 22, 2019

https://texasscorecard.com/state/dps-footage-contradicts-media-narrative-regarding-constitutional-carry-advocate/

Body-cam footage from DPS shows a polite and deferential McNutt block walking the neighborhood before initiating friendly contact with DPS officers outside Bonnen’s home.

Earlier this month, Texas House Speaker Dennis Bonnen made waves by declaring constitutional carry legislation “dead” after alleging that a gun rights activist attempted to visit his home in a threatening manner while he was away.

Now new body-cam footage obtained from the Department of Public Safety puts more context on the incident and appears to contradict much of the narrative surrounding the story.

Initial reports of the incident, carried in several major newspapers across the state, claimed Chris McNutt, the executive director for Texas Gun Rights, used “intimidation tactics” to bully several lawmakers into supporting constitutional carry—Republican Party priority legislation that would allow law-abiding citizens to carry firearms openly or concealed without first obtaining a license or permit.

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Looks like someone is trying to deflect criticism from himself over his perfidy on the issue, while unjustly blaming someone who is just trying to get him to make good on his promises. Seems to be a bunch of that in politics today, and it should cause people who got their jobs based on promises they refuse to keep to lose those jobs.