Legal Question in Civil Rights Law in Texas

Are you within the corporate limits of a municipality of 100,00 (or more) people?

� 42.12. DISCHARGE OF FIREARM IN CERTAIN MUNICIPALITIES.

(a) A person commits an offense if the person recklessly discharges a firearm inside the corporate limits of a municipality having a population of 100,000 or more.

(b) An offense under this section is a Class A misdemeanor.

(c) If conduct constituting an offense under this section

also constitutes an offense under another section of this code, the

person may be prosecuted under either section.

(d) Subsection (a) does not affect the authority of a

municipality to enact an ordinance which prohibits the discharge of

a firearm.

� 229.002. REGULATION OF DISCHARGE OF WEAPON.

A municipality may not apply a regulation relating to the discharge of firearms or other weapons in the extraterritorial jurisdiction of the municipality or in an area annexed by the municipality after September 1, 1981, if the firearm or other weapon is:

(1) a shotgun, air rifle or pistol, BB gun, or bow and

arrow discharged:

(A) on a tract of land of 10 acres or more and

more than 150 feet from a residence or occupied building located on

another property; and

(B) in a manner not reasonably expected to cause

a projectile to cross the boundary of the tract; or

(2) a center fire or rim fire rifle or pistol of any caliber discharged:

(A) on a tract of land of 50 acres or more and more than 300 feet from a residence or occupied building located on another property; and

(B) in a manner not reasonably expected to cause a projectile to cross the boundary of the tract.