In an online video, a gun rights activist pushing for legislation allowing Texans to openly carry guns tells legislators that "treason is punishable by death."
Kory Watkins of Open Carry Tarrant County posted Wednesday, then later pulled, the YouTube link from his Facebook page.
In it he says, "We should be demanding these people give us our rights back, or it's punishable by death. Treason. Do you understand how serious this is, Texas?"
He tells viewers to do "more than foots in doors," apparently referring to a confrontation he had with Rep. Poncho Nevarez at the Texas Capitol on Jan. 13.
Watkins later explained on Facebook that he "was certainly not threatening anyone."
But Nevarez's chief of staff said he forwarded the video to the Texas Department of Public Safety.
