If your boat is that big, a shotgun or rifle could be a better choice for defense, same as home defense,Liberty wrote:There are those who live and work on their boats. These people, may be more vulnerable than those of us who live in houses or drive to work in our automobiles and work in plants and offices. Out in the Gulf and Bays one is on their own.
and it's always (in my lifetime) been legal to have a long gun most places in Texas without a gun license.