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DParker wrote:My answer to you should have made it quite clear that I most certainly did know the conditions you meant, and that you were making an apples-to-oranges comparison.

Maybe it should but it wasn't clear at all. As I have said before, the Texas constitution says "arms" not firearms. Humans have used knives as weapons for thousands of years before firearms were invented, so knives are clearly arms. Please explain how the current San Antonio prohibition against one type of arm (locking folder) is fundamentally different than a hypothetical Dallas prohibition against another type of arm (long guns) other than type of "arms" prohibited (and the fact one is hypothetical. )

DParker wrote:Please decide what specific hypothetical you're talking about and we can proceed from there.

I'm sorry if my post at the top of this page wasn't clear enough.

aardwolf wrote:Are you saying Dallas could still ban rifles under the same conditions San Antonio bans locking folders?

You quoted the San Antonio ordinance so I thought you knew the conditions I meant. My bad.

There is also no state law providing for the right to carry a shotgun or rifle of any caliber. The state constitution says "arms" and history shows that knives have been arms thousands of years before firearms were invented.

Are you saying Dallas could still ban rifles under the same conditions San Antonio bans locking folders?

DParker wrote:Either way it does not run afoul of state law in any manner.

If San Antonio can ban locking folders why can't Dallas ban loaded handguns? Either there's State preemption or there isn't.