Stupid Texas Blue Law - Liquor stores can't sell alcohol on Sundays (Houston: for sale, cost)

[Slowpoke_TX]

Originally Posted by Dopo

The only state monopoly that I'm aware of in Texas is on gambling (Texas lottery)

My comment was referring to PA's previously mentioned monopoly on alcohol.

[Slowpoke_TX]

Originally Posted by Silver_Spur

It is nonsensical to speculate what the FFs would have done on modern issues.

Tell that to all the idiot liberals who claim that the Second Amendment doesn't cover modern firearms "because the FFs couldn't have imagined modern weapons like assault rifles."

[joqua]

Originally Posted by Cathy4017

It was a shock to see hard booze sold EVERYWHERE in NM. Grocery stores, convenience stores, small markets--whiskey, vodka, tequila--all hard liquor--stacked to the ceiling.

There was a time when drive-up liquor stores operated in NM. That was stopped by a new law passed a few years ago. Considering the high incidence of DUI in NM, it's a step in the right direction, IMO.

Now this is in the news as of day before Xmas:

If you were planning a holiday cocktail or two tomorrow, you had to finish stocking up Wednesday night. Alcohol sales are prohibited on Christmas Day in New Mexico, but one New Mexico lawmaker wants that to be a thing of the past this time next year.

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by Slowpoke_TX

Tell that to all the idiot liberals who claim that the Second Amendment doesn't cover modern firearms "because the FFs couldn't have imagined modern weapons like assault rifles."

Say what you want about it.... it starts with "A well regulated..."

[Slowpoke_TX]

Originally Posted by Dopo

Say what you want about it.... it starts with "A well regulated..."

And "regulated" still means trained, disciplined, & equipped. It does not mean, nor has it ever meant, "externally controlled."

There is no right enumerated in the BOR that is written as being subject to the whim of government.

/sidebar

[LeagleEagleDFW]

Gee, it took longer than I thought for someone to shoehorn in a terrible argument about guns to this thread.

[things and stuff]

Is it true that Texas law forbids stores from selling alcohol on Sundays? What about late nights and early mornings on week days?

[malcorub16]

You also cannot buy liquor in Texas at convenience stores or grocery stores. Only in liquor stores.

[Mark Senior]

All true, I wonder how Texas has survived to date...

[Dopo]

Originally Posted by things and stuff

Is it true that Texas law forbids stores from selling alcohol on Sundays? What about late nights and early mornings on week days?

True,
but you can go and buy the same drink at the bar down the street for 5 times the price of it.