"Privatize everything!" "Wait, why are there no parks now?"No no, it's perfect, you have to go to a business and pay to use their range. Fits their ideology perfectly
As a life-long Texan, this is a real issue. On one hand, I love that Texas respects private property rights. On the other, I wish there were places to explore.
I’ve never heard of that in Texas but I may be wrong. I feel like if I took my guns to go shoot on some public land I’d be seeing the game wardens/police pretty quickly.
This. When I moved to Texas for work I thought I was finally escaping my blue state's lack of range options. But if anything Texas is a huge step down. No public land to shoot on; a majority of the indoor ranges bans FMJs for whatever FUD reason; and drawing from holster are often not allowed. My previous state had Wildlife Management areas that had free outdoor sight-in ranges to 100 yards; no one gave a fuck about FMJs; and holster drawing are allowed once you demonstrate proficiency to the RSO. Boggles my mind how a gun-friendly red state can be backwards from there. Would also like to know if there are places people can go to shoot.
You probably don’t hear about it because there’s a far bigger gun ownership culture than there is a gun shooting culture here.
The closest is almost certainly in New Mexico
Texas hasn't been for decades. It's been Taxes for decades. Them Godless Communists have overtaken our Liberties and landscape.
So all those memes about Texas winning a civil war on its own is just nonsense when most gun owners in Texas just casually shoot in lanes lol
You probably don’t hear about it because there’s a far bigger gun ownership culture than there is a gun shooting culture here.
As a boardgame guy, it's funny to see that gun people also have their "still in shrink wall of shame" dudes
picking up all these steam gundles on sale and leaving them in the backlog forever
Texas hasn't been for decades. It's been Taxes for decades. Them Godless Communists have overtaken our Liberties and landscape
Lmao imagine being in a state that is so far right that everything has been privatized to the point of no public places, and then saying something like this... were they being sarcastic?
communism is when I feel negative stimuli
that's literally the beginning and end of their thought process
Wow, sucks to suck, nerds who self-selected to inhabit that hellhole.
They likely meant Fudd, a term for gun owners who are interested only in hunting or shotgun sports, rather than other shooting related hobbies. They tend to prefer guns with wood furniture, usually bolt action rifles or double barrel shotguns. Think Elmer Fudd. Autocorrect probably got the best of them and corrected it to FUD.
FMJs are generally useful for feeding through the firearm more smoothly and are able to be fired at higher muzzle velocities. They're nice because you need to clean your gun less frequently, in theory. They're also cheaper than hollowpoint or softpoint rounds. There are about 4 reasons an indoor range might ban them, they are more likely to damage the backstop or berm because they don't spread out, like an HP or SP round would; they're more likely to ricochet; they may have a steel, bismuth, or tungsten core which increases the damage to the backstop and the likelihood of ricochet, and because they want to sell you more expensive hollowpoints. The main reasons are for reducing their costs and increasing their profits, ironically the exact type of capitalist shit Texan gunbros say they love.
This is absolutely by design - Texas was made by ranchers, for ranchers (slavers).
They literally convinced the locals that had just outlawed slavery thag they could be slavers too again
implying that public land should exist
Woah, slow down there Mao.
walking around and shooting things has got to be the most american hobby
"I got my ass whooped at stick-n-hoop so now I carry a gun to feel like a big boy"
This seems like the kind of thing that's only true due to a weird technicality. If you're shooting at an animal there are over a million acres of "publicly accessible" land to shoot on.
These guys don't want to go hunting, that shit's for Fudds, they wanna bring their tacticool gear out and blast rounds into trees or try to do a quickdraw magdump with their pistols. You know, the kind of shit that gets people with low actual gun knowledge and experience seriously injured, is prone to random people in the park getting shot, and fucks up the park.
"Waah they ban FMJs in the indoor range!" yeah because it damages the backstop more? Why would you want to shoot fmjs in a range, they're more expensive and don't change the way that you hit paper, dumbass.
The majority of land for hunting in Texas is private, something like 95% of it. Most hunters will pay for permission to hunt on private land in a deer blind or stand, because they want to sit in a little hut and drink beer.
