Here's just one: a 'permitless license' law that allows Texans to carry guns without a license or training.
: “The idea that an 18-year-old kid can walk into a gun store and buy two assault weapons — it’s just wrong.”
Abbott’s commitment to saturating the state with deadly weapons — and making them easier to carry by more people — has been unyielding. In 2021 he signed into law over a dozen measures designed to get more guns into the hands of Texans, “Second Amendment Sanctuary,” prohibiting state officials from enforcing new federal gun regulations, was designed to protect Texans from measures like background checks or assault weapons bans, should those ever be passed at the national level;
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