That's correct. And, there was no CHL law in Texas until 1995, after the Republicans took effective control of the state government for the first time in over a century.
What I’ve always found ironic here in North Carolina is that there is exactly one jurisdiction in the entire state that is exempt from NC’s preemption of local firearms restrictions, and that’s Durham County (my former home for 5 years), which is majority black. Durham was grandfathered into the law when it was passed back in the ‘20s or ‘30s. Handguns in Durham must be registered, nowhere else in the state does this apply. And while NC is allegedly a shall-issue CCW state, getting a CCW permit in Durham is tougher than just about anywhere else.
It’s a leftover Jim Crow law, pure and simple. But the liberal blacks who have run Durham for 50 years want it kept on the books...despite the fact that Durham has one of the highest crime rates in the state, a massive drug and gang problem for a city its size, and these laws making criminals out of hundreds and thousands of otherwise law-abiding black citizens who just want to defend themselves from the crackheads and gangbangers.
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