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Texas

This jurisdictional hub aggregates FRC holdings related to Texas. It supports research on the state’s firearms history, technology, law, policy, and culture from Spanish and Mexican periods through the Republic of Texas, statehood, and the present.

  • Legal sources: statutes and session laws, administrative code, attorney general opinions, appellate decisions, and select municipal ordinances.
  • Historical materials: newspapers, photographs, maps, catalogs, frontier and ranger records, ranching and oil-and-gas archives, border and military collections, and oral histories tied to Texas people and places.
  • Research outputs: technical reports, academic studies, training manuals, and curated datasets relevant to the state.

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    1898 Tex. Gen. Laws, 1140 § 3
    (1863)
    An Act Amendatory of an Act to punish certain offences committed on Sunday, § 3: That any person or persons who shall engage in hunting game, either with gun or dogs, or otherwise, on Sunday, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be fined not less than five nor more than twenty-five dollars
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    1873 Tex. Gen Laws 1321, Art. 6508a
    (1867)
    An Act to Prohibit the Discharging of Firearms in Certain Places Therein Named, Art. 6508a: It shall not be lawful for any person to discharge any gun, pistol, or firearms of any description whatever, on, or across any public square, street, or alley, in any city or town in this state
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    Tex. Const., Art. I, § 13 (1869)
    (1869)
    Declared everyone shall have the right to keep and bear arms, subject to regulations as the legislature "may prescribe."
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    1866 Tex. Gen. Laws 210
    (1866)
    An Act To Prohibit The Discharging Of Fire Arms In Certain Places Herein Named, chap. 170, § 1: It shall not be lawful for any person to discharge any gun, pistol, or fire arms of any description whatever, on, or across any public square, street, or alley, in any city or town in this state; Provided this act shall not be so construed as to apply to the "outer town," or suburbs, of any city or town.
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    1873 Tex. Gen. Laws 1321, Art. 6509
    (1866)
    An Act to Amend Article 382, Title XI, Chapter 3 of the Penal Code. Art. 6509: If any one or more persons shall, in any public place, by loud and vociferous talking, swearing, or rudely displaying any pistol, or other deadly weapon, so as to disturb the inhabitants of the place in the prosecution of their lawful business, any person engaged in such disturbance shall be fined in any sum not exceeding fifty dollars.
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    1898 Tex. Gen. Laws, 121 § 1
    (1860)
    An Act Authorizing the Corporate Authorities of the Town of Dangerfield, Fairfield and Springfield, to tax ten pin alleys, billiard tables and pistol galleries, § 1: That the corporate authorities of the Town of Dangerfield, in Titus county, Fairfield, in Freestone county, and Springfield in Limestone county, Texas, be and they are hereby authorized to levy a tax, of not more than five hundred dollars per annum, on ten pin alleys, billiard tables or pistol galleries, to be paid before any such alley, table or gallery is put in operation.