KBCraig
NES Member
Texas assimilated a lot of the GCA. Many years after the GCA limit on long gun transfer to only residents of contiguous states was lifted, ATF finally noticed that TX hadn't updated their law.Very few states chain anything to the NFA or even conventional GCA definitions of firearms. Some may kinda /mirror/ GCA definitions but they're not hard-linked.
Oops... all those FFLs who had sold to anyone who wasn't a resident of TX, NM, OK, AR, or LA were in a panic, and all Texas-based 01 FFLs had to limit sales to residents of those states.
Texas had to change their laws, and since their legislature only meets for 140 days, once every two years, it took a cycle or two to make Texas law catch up.