Does the NRA really have excess power over legislation? Maybe this will answer that

question.

Bonus Bill of the Week: Mandatory Gun Shows
http://www.austinchronicle.com/daily/news/2015-05-08/bonus-bill-of-the-week-mandatory-gun-shows/

H.B. 3866 amends the Local Government Code to prohibit a municipality that leases a public facility to persons for short-term use for shows, exhibits, or similar purposes from refusing to lease the facility to a gun show promoter for the purpose of conducting a gun show.

The way the bill is phrased, this is absolutely mandatory. So, if a gun show comes to Austin and demands to use the Convention Center, then they have to rent it. But the bill doesn't say the gun vendor can't demand it even if it is already booked out.

It even restricts how much the city can charge. They cannot bill the gun show one red cent more than the lowest rate they charge to any other exhibitor. So say a city gives a discount rate to a school district, or a charity. They have to give the same rate to a gun show - a private, commercial entity.
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Even worse, the bill would bar them from charging any additional fees, such as policing and security, that they would not charge to, say a Beanie Babies festival.

I wonder who wrote that bill? I wonder if there was an agenda here? I wonder who sponsored that bill?

Who could it POSSIBLY be?