Most TTAG readers likely know U.S. Rep. Jasmine Crockett, D-Texas, as a vehemently anti-gun lawmaker who is famous for her nonsensical comments and greatly inflated sense of self-importance. That extremely high level of conceit has led Crockett to run for the state Senate in the Lone Star State, where the majority of voters have little patience for idiots or gun-grabbers.
Now, just months before the Senate election, the National Shooting Sports Foundation is pointing out Rep. Crockett’s hypocrisy on firearms, including the extremely exorbitant amount of money she spends on her personal armed security.
According to a news report by David Keane of the National Shooting Sports Foundation (NSSF), Rep. Crockett has some serious explaining to do to the Texans she’s hoping to give her a promotion about an issue that is always front and center in Texas—the Second Amendment. As NSSF pointed out, Fox News recently revealed Rep. Crockett has joined a (un)distinguished and disingenuous group of anti-gun lawmakers who support proposals that limit the constitutional rights of law-abiding Americans to protect themselves while at the same time paying exorbitant sums to employ private armed security protection, sometimes subsidized by others.
An FEC report cited in the Fox News report revealed that Rep. Crockett spent a whopping sum of money seemingly to protect herself, while simultaneously advocating for policies that restrict Texans from being able to do the same.
“By far the largest expense was private security, despite Crockett repeatedly calling to defund the police,” the Fox News report stated. “Crockett paid close to $80,000 for security in 2025. A significant portion, $30,079.34, of those security costs came in the final quarter of 2025.”
That hypocrisy didn’t sit well with Keane and the NSSF.
“In other words, Rep. Crockett—while perennially campaigning to take away Texans’ Second Amendment rights and defund law enforcement—spent 30 percent more than the median yearly salary in Texas ($61,400) on private armed security for herself…paid for by other people. What a deal,” Keane wrote. “While that’s not nearly as much as failed and former gun control congressional colleague U.S. Rep. Cori Bush, D-Missouri, spent on her private security ($770,000), Rep. Crockett’s security payments should make Texans livid.”
As Keane further pointed out, one only has to look at how self-proclaimed enemies of the Second Amendment feel about Rep. Crockett to see how far off she is on Second Amendment issues.
“She’s proudly fought to pass measures to expand background checks to all gun sales, ban assault weapons and bump stocks, close loopholes that allow dangerous people to access firearms, strengthen safe storage measures, and address gun trafficking—all while also respecting the rights of responsible gun owners,” the gun-ban group Giffords bragged on its website. “Now more than ever, Texans deserve a champion who will always stand up to the corruption of the gun lobby and put their safety first.”
Ultimately, Keane believes Texans will see Rep. Crockett for what she really is when it comes to gun rights and armed self-defense.
“It’s a tale as old as time for gun control activists. ‘A champion’ for Texans who ‘puts their safety first,’” Keane concluded. “What they really mean is someone who will take away Texans’ rights, all while spending substantially more than the typical Texan makes in one year to pay for subsidized private armed security for themselves.
“Texans are smarter than Rep. Crockett makes them out to be. They’ll vote that way in November this year.”
Read the full article here