If you’re going to the State Fair of Texas next week, you’ll have to keep your assault rifles at home.
Dallas County District Judge Emily Tobolowsky denied Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton’s request to stop a gun ban from taking effect when the fair opens next week, the Associated Press reported. (There was a shooting at the fair just last year, which injured three people and required the fair grounds to be evacuated.)
Ever since the state fair unveiled its updated policy last month asking attendees at the beloved event to leave their AK-47s behind (unless you’re a cop), the City of Dallas has been in a legal tussle with Paxton. He quickly filed a lawsuit arguing that the ban was unlawful, since the event is on government-owned public property — and even revoked a previous opinion from eight years ago, in which he supported allowing private nonprofits to ban guns on any land they leased from a city, per the Texas Tribune.
Anyway, he lost this round. But don’t worry. Texas lawmakers will probably try to fix it next session.
