I believe TX, like OK, has state pre-emption on gun laws where the municipalities cannot exceed state firearms laws. As an Oklahoman plus being involved in economic development for manufacturers, I am in favor of any move that brings that kind of jobs to OK. However, any company needing that kind of skilled workers better bring at least part of their own workforce because that is the toughest hire right now. Skilled machinists are being poached from one company to another and there are plenty retiring without an equivalent backfill of new skilled workers.
...and that’s why gun manufacturers should locate in Indiana. Local gun restrictions are prohibited and we’re right next door to Illinois so the poverty stricken vassal servants of that nanny state can peer across the border and catch an occassional glimpse of a free people.
Then Oklahoma ought to be advertising that fact to workforce centers, technical schools, career counselors, military outplacement and unemployment officials in Michigan, Iowa, Missouri, Illinois, Florida, etc., etc... I was a veterans career specialist in Iowa for 15 years and if I had somewhere to send my unemployed machinists I’d have jumped on it.