Texas students can now bring guns to class. “Cocks Not Glocks” is bringing dildos instead. pic.twitter.com/jNdNO2mch5
— Mic (@mic) August 28, 2016
Texas Gun Rights has been warning 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 didn’t 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’s 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.
Texas Dem James Talarico hired brains behind ‘Cocks not Glocks’ protest to draft gun control bills https://t.co/bsgaoclia0 pic.twitter.com/pDJd9nPvWN
— New York Post (@nypost) July 8, 2026
He wasn’t just 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’s 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’s Doing
The gun confiscation lobby learned from Beto O’Rourke. They know Texas voters aren’t going to reward a candidate who openly says, “Hell yes, we’re going to take your AR-15.” So now they’re using 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 wouldn’t 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 needs to follow him everywhere, too.
The gun confiscation lobby isn’t 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 can’t let that happen. Texas Gun Rights will keep exposing the gun grabbers, mobilizing pro-gun Texans, and holding anti-gun politicians accountable — without compromise.
The violent unhinged left wing liberal attitude underpinning of ‘C0ck$ not Glocks’ is exactly why campus gun carry exists.
The ATF Just Released These Numbers… Nobody Expected This.
“The ATF has released updated National Firearms Registration and Transfer Record (NFRTR) figures, and the numbers are eye-opening. According to the latest federal data, there are now nearly 8 million legally registered suppressors and short-barreled firearms in circulation across the United States.”
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The US Department of Justice under President Trump has just moved to dismiss its appeal from the US District Court for the Northern District of Texas involving Judge Reed O’Connor. This is a big win for 2A. Mark Smith, Four Boxes Diner, discusses…
[note – synopsis: This means the win by the FPC and SAF for post office carry is now in force nationwide for FPC and SAF members, which means they can carry at the post office nationwide]
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Illegal alien murderers update: Staring with Bidens tyranny and his illegal invasion of the country via his deliberately insecure border, there have been 11,388 Americans murdered by illegal aliens that entered the country as a result of the Biden tyranny. [note: these are only then ones that have been convicted – there are another ~38,000 cases still pending.]
Deporting left wing violence: Leftist [illegal alien] Canadian Who Assaulted Trump Supporters at the Jersey Shore Is Being Deported [note: illegal alien because she overstayed her visa, on purpose BTW.]
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This whole situation at the university in Austin Texas, is a big reason why I do not trust the libertarians. When it comes to my 2A civil rights.
Sadly, most people in the “gun community” do not take the open carry of arms seriously. Open carry IS AT THE core of the second amendment. And the “community” does not understand that.
The open display of sez toys has been going on since the 1970’s at g@.y pride parades. And that has been widely accepted, because people consider it an act of the first amendment. Because accordingly to these freaks. The first amendment is meant for you to “shock and offended” people.
But not even the “gun community” considers the open carry of arms, an act of the first amendment???
But people certainly were “shocked and offended” when the Black Panther Party for Self-Defense, was open carrying guns.
And 50 years later, people were again “shocked and offended” when people began open carrying guns in Ferguson Missouri.
In 2020 during the summer of lez.bi@n love riots. People were “shocked and offended” when the residents in certain neighborhoods, that were threatened by mobs. Began to open carrying guns.
To be specific, the white libertarians at Reason Magazine were “shocked and offended” when two white men, began to open carry guns in Ferguson Missouri. And I never shot anybody. And they never pointed their guns at anybody.
The only open carry that I am offended by is when it’s not done safely.
Gunny and his platoon reminded us, “one is for fighting … one is for fun.”
Cornyn hardly “caved to the gun confiscation lobby”. He was a solid gun rights vote for decades. In the wake of Uvalde (19 dead children I might remind you), it wasn’t just gun control whackos calling for something to be done…it was a large part of his constituency. So he backed a bill that would include spending on mental health issues, and include questions about mental health, specifically if someone had an adjudicated mental health order. That was a mistake on his part as it turns out. The mistake of Texas Republicans is believing everything they read online without doing research and then putting in a candidate (Paxton) who very likely will lose the Senate seat to a sure nuff anti gun whack job. Stupid Texas…very stupid. (Native here btw)
But it wasn’t a mistake on his part. He wasn’t born yesterday. He knew exactly what he was doing. Good riddance.