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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.

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    Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney 6 (1899)
    (1899)
    Prohibited the public discharge of firearms in McKinney.
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    Theodore Harris, Charter and Ordinances of the City of San Antonio 220 (1899)
    (1899)
    Ordinances of the City of San Antonio, Ordinances, ch. 22, § 4: Prohibited drawing in a threatening manner a pistol, gun, knife, sword cane, club or any other instrument or weapon that may cause death.
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    Revised Ordinances of the City of Victoria, Texas 75 (1899)
    (1899)
    Revised Penal Ordinances: Discharging Firearms, § 1: If any person shall discharge any gun, pistol or firearm of any description on or across any public square, street or alley, or elsewhere within the corporate limits of the City of Victoria, whether the premises on or across which such fire arm is discharged be public or private he shall be fined in any sum not to exceed ten dollars.
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    1901 Tex. Gen. Laws 53-54
    (1901)
    Special Session, An Act to Incorporate the City of Fort Worth and to Grant a New Charter to Said City, Ch. 7, § 140: The city council shall also have and possess the following express powers. . . To prohibit and restrain, or to regulate the firing of firecrackers, guns and pistols . . .
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    Revised Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney 16 (1899)
    (1899)
    Ordinance No. 26: Be it ordained by the city council of the city of McKinney: § 1. That it shall be unlawful for any person to fire or shoot any gun, pistol, firecracker or any kind of fireworks or pyrotechnics in the corporate limits of the city of McKinney
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    1901 Texas Spec. Laws 74
    (1901)
    §§ 169–170: The city council may also regulate or prohibit and prevent the carrying on of work and manufactures that are dangerous in promoting or causing fires, and may prohibit the building or erection of cotton presses and sheds, or may restrict the same to such limits as are prescribed by ordinance; and may regulate or prohibit and prevent the use of fireworks and firearms, or the keeping and management of houses or other structures or places for storing gunpowder, dynamite, or other combustible, explosive, or dangerous material or substances within the city, and may regulate the keeping and conveying of the same.
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    1898 Tex. Gen. Laws 234–35
    (1898)
    Ch. 118, Art. 10: That from and after the passage of this act it shall be unlawful to fire any pistol, rifle, shot gun, or other kind of fire-arms, within the limits of the town of Round Top, and any person violating this act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor,
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    1909 Tex. Spec. Laws 270
    (1909)
    Ch. 7, § 18: Power to prevent and suppress riots, affrays, noise, breach of the peace, assaults, disturbances or disorderly assembly in any public or private place within the limits of said city, and to provide punishment therefor; to prohibit and restrain the firing of guns, and pistols in the city limits, and to prohibit and restrain the carrying of pistols.
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    1901 Tex. Gen. Laws 300
    (1901)
    An Act to amend Article 336 Chapter 3, Title IX of the Penal Code of the State of Texas, relating to affrays and disturbance of the peace: If any person shall discharge any gun, pistol or firearms of any description, or shall discharge any cannon cracker or torpedo on or across any public square, street or alley in any city, town or village, or in any street, or within one hundred yards of any business house, in this State, he shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.