Sylvester Turner Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.Anti-spam check. Do not fill this in! ===Criminal justice=== On gun control, Turner opposed measures to limit lawsuits against gun or ammunition manufacturers,<ref>{{cite web|title=The Galveston Daily News from Galveston, Texas β’ Page 5|url=https://www.newspapers.com/newspage/16961843/|website=The Galveston Daily News|date=May 18, 1999 }}</ref> allowing concealed handguns on higher education campuses, and rescinding the authority of local governments to ban concealed weapons on public property.<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.journals.house.state.tx.us/hjrnl/78r/pdf/day70final.pdf|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090106221920/http://www.journals.house.state.tx.us/hjrnl/78r/pdf/day70final.pdf|url-status=dead|archive-date=January 6, 2009|title=Texas House Journal}}</ref> He also opposed measures that would reduce the number of training hours required to receive a concealed handgun license.<ref>{{cite web|title=HB 928 β Prohibits State Funds from Being Used for the Enforcement of Federal Firearm Regulations β Key Vote|url=http://votesmart.org/bill/16907/44886/8018/prohibits-state-funds-from-being-used-for-the-enforcement-of-federal-firearm-regulations#.VY1_b_lViko|website=Vote Smart}}</ref> Turner supported a bill that prohibited the use of state funds for the enforcement of federal firearms regulations.<ref>{{cite web|title=Vote Smart|url=http://votesmart.org/bill/16877/44770/8018/reduces-required-hours-for-concealed-handgun-license-training#.VY19x_lViko|website=SB 864 β Reduces Required Hours for Concealed Handgun License Training β Key Vote}}</ref> He also advocated abandoning the "pick-a-pal system", where judges appoint commissioners who then can pick whoever they want to serve on grand juries.<ref>{{cite web|last1=Barajas|first1=Michael|title=Watch Rep. Sylvester Turner's Cri de Coeur for Grand Jury Reform|url=http://www.houstonpress.com/news/watch-rep-sylvester-turners-cri-de-coeur-for-grand-jury-reform-7438912|website=Houston Press}}</ref> Summary: Please note that all contributions to Christianpedia may be edited, altered, or removed by other contributors. If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly, then do not submit it here. You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource (see Christianpedia:Copyrights for details). Do not submit copyrighted work without permission! Cancel Editing help (opens in new window) Discuss this page