DALLAS –The Dallas City Council met in closed session Wednesday to discuss the State Fair of Texas' new gun policy following a threat of legal action from Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton. Paxton issued a notice to the City of Dallas last week saying that the fair's policy violates state...
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Commandment 1:Treat every gun with respect. Assume every gun is a loaded gun. This is often referred to as the cardinal rule of gun safety. Commandment 2:Carry only unloaded guns into your home, auto, or buildings. (Open the chamber and open the barrel to ensure gun is unloaded and tha...
Exposure An annual rating between 0 (completely restrictive) and 100 (completely permissive) for the gun laws of all 50 states taken from a reference guide for gun owners traveling between states from 1998 to 2015. Gun ownership was estimated annually as the percentage of suicides committed with...
Protecting the lawful possession and use of firearms Providing gun safety training Supporting shooting sports, hunter education, and wildlife conservation efforts. TSRA works diligently on your behalf, providing you with a strong voice in the State of Texas regarding your rights to firearms and their...
A new study found that stricter gun laws are linked to safer high schools. Stricter state gun laws are linked to safer high school experiences for students, new research has found. In a report published Thursday in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health,...
State gun lawsCrime gunsGravity modelPrevious research by Kahane (2013) and Knight (2013) studied the relationship between differential state gun laws and the movement of crime guns between states using ATF gun tracing data for 2009. The basic result from these earlier studies is that crime guns...
But the state’s strictgun lawsdidn’t begin to crack until a few years after another mass shooting — this one in 1991, when a gunman drove his pickup truck through the window of a central Texas cafeteria and killed 23 people...
Texas was the state with the highest number of registered weapons in the United States in 2021, with 1,006,555 firearms. Rhode Island, on the other hand, had the least, with 4,887 registered firearms. Gun laws in the United StatesGun ownership in the U.S. is protected by the 2nd ...
Context.—Since 1989, several states have passed laws that make gun owners criminally liable if someone is injured because a child gains unsupervised