New Hampshire, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah are the true tier 1 elite carry/CCW states. Texas is not . Texas is tier 2.
New Hampshire, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah have incredibly minimal restrictions on public carrying.
Most Texans live in suburban Texas. 14,730,100 live just in the Houston suburbs, DFW suburbs, San Antonio suburbs, and Austin suburbs combined. That is more than the entire population of Pennsylvania. Almost every commercial business in suburban Texas has 30.05, 30.06, 30.07 signs. Constitutional carry is legal for those 21+, but the state features rigid laws regarding private business signage (30.05, 30.06, 30.07 signs) which limit where you carry.
This basically makes it impossible to carry when you are going out grocery shopping or running simple errands around town.
New Hampshire, Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, and Utah are the superior true Tier 1 carry/CCW states.