TEXAS

"An Act Concerning

Slaves," Sec. 6, 1840 Laws of Tex. 171, 172, ch. 58

of the Texas Acts of 1850 prohibited slaves from using

firearms altogether from 1842-1850. (Journal of

Criminal Law and Criminology, Northwestern University,

Vol. 85, No. 3, "Gun Control and Economic

Discrimination: The Melting-Point Case-In-Point," T.

Markus Funk, 1995, p. 797)

Placed "'extremely heavy business and/or transactional

taxes'" on the sale of handguns in an attempt "to put

handguns out of the reach of blacks and poor whites."

("Gun Control: White Man's Law," William R. Tonso,

Reason, December 1985)