The House Select Committee on Community Safety is scheduled to hear testimony on bills that would change how people buy firearms and how authorities report those purchases.
Patrons of the SAXET Gun Show look at handguns at the Richard M. Borchard Regional Fairgrounds in Robstown in February., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
A Texas House committee on Tuesday is scheduled to hold hearings for several firearms bills, including legislation that aims to change how people buy guns, how certain sales are reported to authorities and when background checks are required. One wouldto purchase certain semi-automatic firearms — a proposal some Uvalde families have been advocating for since the school shooting last year.
The legislative proposals face uphill battles in the Republican-controlled Legislature. For more than 13 years, lawmakers have loosened gun regulations and made accessing firearms easier, despite
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