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Appeals court rejects Attorney General Ken Paxton’s effort to overturn Texas State Fair gun ban

The fair banned firearms in 2024 after a shooting at Fair Park. Paxton’s lawsuit has faced multiple setbacks, the latest from a court appointed entirely by Gov. Greg Abbott.

An all-Republican Texas appeals court has delivered another blow to Attorney General Ken Paxton’s challenge of the State Fair’s firearms ban, just over a month before the annual weekslong event returns to Dallas. In his 2024 lawsuit against the city and the private nonprofit that operates the fair, Paxton argued that the policy violated a […]

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