A slew of new laws easing restrictions on firearms went into effect in Texas on Sunday, one day after a gunman went on a shooting rampage in the western part of the state killing seven people and injuring 22.
Eight new laws passed earlier this year by the Texas Legislature and signed by Gov. Greg Abbott in June include removing a cap on the number of armed marshals allowed on school campuses, allowing legal gun owners to take their weapons to church and other places of worship, and prohibiting landlords from banning tenants from having guns in their apartments.
He said the law removing the limit on armed marshals at schools was prompted by a mass shooting in May 2018 at a high school in Santa Fe in which eight students and two teachers were killed. He also said the legislation allowing gun owners to bring their weapons to church resulted from a shooting rampage in November 2017 that left 27 dead at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs.
On Saturday, a gunman armed with an AR-type assault weapon went on a killing rampage in the Odessa-Midland area in western Texas, killing seven people and injuring at least 22 others before he was fatally shot outside a movie theater by police, officials said. ABC affiliate KSAT-TV in San Antonio first reported about the new gun laws coming in the wake of Texas' latest mass shooting.
But Abbott said that since the high school shooting in Santa Fe, he has signed 15 different laws intended to curb gun violence.
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