Guns are big in America, in both size and popularity. As more gun-related incidents have taken place in recent years, gun control regulation takes center stage. The ‘gun-control’ conversation can be complicated, as it pits citizen safety against our Second Amendment rights. Those who advocate for stricter gun control are proponents of background checks and limits on assault rifles.
Texas residents are strongly attached to their guns, making this state weak on gun regulation. In fact, many of the state’s laws support open carry without a permit of any kind. As gun advocates seek to allow guns on college campuses, safety-centric individuals are focused on reeling in such lax legislation.
24/7 Wall St. reviewed Texas’ approach to 14 key gun control policy areas using data from the Giffords Law Center, a gun violence prevention group, finding that Texas has some of the weakest gun control laws in the country. Accounting for a wide range of policies at the disposal of state governments — including assault-style weapon and high-capacity magazine bans, universal background check laws, waiting periods, and restrictions on firearms in public — Gifford’s Law Center assigned Texas a letter grade of “F”, on an A-F scale, for the strength of its gun control policies. Laws on this list are not exhaustive and only represent broad guidelines. Also, legal nuances can vary at the state and local levels.
— 24/7 Wall St. in Can You Guess Which State Has the Weakest Gun Control Laws?
Spent this past week in Dallas (Frisco area, specifically). Planning meetings for 2025. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner out and about. Did not see any open carry.
Yes, I carried in my Sneaky Pete. No other members of my team carry, even though some are gun owners.
Nobody open carries in any of the big cities in Texas. It’s legal, but everyone carries concealed.
In the last decade or so, I think I’ve seen 3 guns carried openly in Texas statewide, not by some “demonstrator” or “protester”, but by regular people. That’s it. And I’ve been all over this state many times.
Not arguing for or against it, I don’t care. I’m just saying that as a practical matter, pretty much nobody anywhere does it, in any city of any size, that I’ve seen. Farmers and ranchers are those who you’ll see doing it, but in the city, it’s all concealed.
I like how they rank NH a D- even though nothing at all has changed from the years of F ratings.
My guess is there’s a Northeast PR push underway to manufacture consent for the inevitable Massification of NH. Going from an F to a C or B would be a shocker but creeping to a C from a D-, well, that’s just progress.
Check your state here: h ttps://giffords.org/lawcenter/resources/scorecard2022/
To quote .40 cal Booger: “No one with any intelligence really gives a frog fart for how Giffords ‘grades’ states for their gun laws.”
My state also received an F and that’s a good thing no matter what Giffords thinks.
Wait a minute my state gets an F rating too and has less strict firearms policies than Texas because our preemption law keeps all cities, towns, municipalities and counties from enacting gun laws stricter than state law. We should be number 1. I want a recount.
Mine got an F too. I assume that stands for fantastic.
Texas has state preemption as well.
Any gun law, or absence of gun law, Giffords doesn’t like means a state has ‘weak gun laws’.
In reality all states have the same basic gun laws, and all states meet federal gun laws. But some states are just not as tyrannical and rights infringing with laws as Giffords desires them to be.
No one with any intelligence really gives a frog fart for how Giffords ‘grades’ states for their gun laws. Their ‘grading’ is nothing more than an expression of Giffords own desires for an oppressive tyrannical regime.
They gave Texas an F, and this Texan gives them an FU.
You say that like its a BAD thing….hmmmmm
Strange how the focus is gun laws and never murders.
Yet Texas ranks 21st in Homicides per 100K population; in the middle of the pack..
That’s lower than New Mexico, Illinois, Maryland, Delaware (1), Ohio, Pennsylvania and Michigan.
Huh.
And Texas has some enormous cities: Houston, The Dallas-Fort Worth Metroplex, and that as-yet unnamed Austin-SA “thing” along I-35.
Plus one of the largest illegal immigrant populations in the country.
Maybe “an armed society is a polite society” after all.
Hopefully, Texas will cause them to come up with a lower grade than F.
Shhh. Do you know how much trouble we spent getting rid of Ann Richards and the Texas Democrat Party?
As a Texan, I embrace our ‘F’ with great enthusiasm. In Dallas, I saw someone open carrying in my favorite Indian restaurant not more than a year ago, and everyone at the table started talking about all the guns they owned.
That why I love living in my adopted state!
“The ‘gun-control’ conversation can be complicated, as it pits citizen safety against our Second Amendment rights.”
Such is the claim, but in the aggregate, that’s simply a lie from the Left.