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Texas Firearms History: From Flintlocks to Constitutional Carry

admin · 2026-03-16T23:04:17.226Z

Texas has one of the most mythologized gun cultures in the country, and that myth does real work — mostly covering up the actual history. This piece digs into the parts that don't fit on a bumper sticker, and some of it genuinely surprised me even after years of thinking I knew this stuff. Here's where the myth breaks hard from the history: frontier Texas had serious gun control. The cattle towns of the Texas frontier — Abilene, Dodge City (technically Kansas, but the endpoint of Texas drive...

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Texas Firearms History: From Flintlocks to Constitutional Carry

Texas has one of the most layered and genuinely complicated firearms histories in the country. The myth says Texans have always carried whatever they wanted, wherever they wanted, and the law be damned. The reality is messier and more interesting — a

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