• footfaults [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    No no, it's perfect, you have to go to a business and pay to use their range. Fits their ideology perfectly

  • Albanian_Lil_Pump [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    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

    • red_stapler [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      You probably don’t hear about it because there’s a far bigger gun ownership culture than there is a gun shooting culture here.

      chefs-kiss

      • TheLepidopterists [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        As a boardgame guy, it's funny to see that gun people also have their "still in shrink wall of shame" dudes

    • Dirt_Owl [comrade/them, they/them]
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      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?

      • NephewAlphaBravo [he/him]
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        1 year ago

        communism is when I feel negative stimuli

        that's literally the beginning and end of their thought process

    • buh [she/her]
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      1 year ago

      someone said something I don't agree with or understand? must be a FUD

      • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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        1 year ago

        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.

  • Tofu_Lewis [he/him]
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    1 year ago

    This is absolutely by design - Texas was made by ranchers, for ranchers (slavers).

    • MaxVoltage [any, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      They literally convinced the locals that had just outlawed slavery thag they could be slavers too again

  • Othello
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    9 days ago

    deleted by creator

    • huf [he/him]
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      1 year ago

      nope. that'd be driving around and shooting brown people. but yeah, close.

  • Elon_Musk [none/use name]
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    1 year ago

    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.

    • EmmaGoldman [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      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.

    • axont [she/her, comrade/them]
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      1 year ago

      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.

  • keepcarrot [she/her]
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    1 year ago

    Why doesn't he buy his own land where he can create the rules?