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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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    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 Code of Ordinances of the City of McKinney 5 (1899)
    (1899)
    Ordinances of the City of McKinney, Disturbance of the Peace, § 1: That if any person shall go into or near any public place, or into or near any private house and shall use loud and vociferous or obscene, vulgar or indecent language or swear or curse, or yell or shriek or expose his person or rudely display any pistol or other deadly weapon in a manner calculated to disturb the inhabitants of such public place or private house, he shall be fined in any sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.
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    Revised Ordinances of the City of Fort Worth, Texas, at 113-14
    (1879)
    An Ordinance defining and punishing affrays and Disturbances of the Peace, § 2: If any person shall go into any public place, or into or near any private house, or along any public street or highway near any private house, and shall use loud and vociferous, or obscene, vulgar, or indecent language, or swear or curse, or expose his person, or rudely display any pistol or other deadly weapon in such public place, or upon such public street or highway, or near such private house, in a manner calculated to disturb the inhabitants thereof, he shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars.
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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.