Let me repeat the part of the Texas Constitution that you seem to have missed:aardwolf wrote:[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.)
but the Legislature shall have power, by law, to regulate the wearing of arms, with a view to prevent crime.
This is why I said that you need to decide which of the three quite different things you've presented so far...
1. Banning loaded handguns.
2. Banning rifles.
3. Banning the carrying of long guns.
...you're actually asking about as an analogy. Texas law as it currently exists makes each a fundamentally different issue. I've already explained why #1 was not analogous to the San Antonio statute. I've also explained that #2 was vague, but generally not permitted by the state Constitution. I've now demonstrated why #3 is a case that is quite different from the previous two, but roughly analogous to the lockbladed knife restrictions.
Since when is any kind of infringement reasonable?