Texas joins list of states dropping permit rules for guns
3 years, 6 months ago

Texas joins list of states dropping permit rules for guns

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas will now let people carry handguns without first getting a background check and training, becoming the latest and largest on a growing list of states to roll back permitting requirements for carrying guns in public. “In this increasingly dangerous world, people want to be able to protect themselves,” said NRA leader Wayne LaPierre, who attended the Texas bill signing. “Thank God Texas is leading the way for the country in making that possible.” Texas — home to more than 29 million people — is by far the most populous of the approximately 20 states that allow people to carry a gun in public without a permit. Gun control groups also oppose the Texas measure, noting the state’s recent history of mass shootings, including a racist attack at a Walmart in the border city of El Paso, and attacks at a Baptist church in Sutherland Springs and at Santa Fe High School outside Houston.

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Lakewood Church shooting: Spotlight on Texas gun laws after Houston megachurch attack
10 months, 1 week ago

Lakewood Church shooting: Spotlight on Texas gun laws after Houston megachurch attack

The Independent  

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How Texas church shooter bought rifle despite mental illness and criminal history is under scrutiny
10 months, 1 week ago

How Texas church shooter bought rifle despite mental illness and criminal history is under scrutiny

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Figuring out Texas: From guns to immigration, here’s how one state’s challenges echo the country’s
1 year, 7 months ago

Figuring out Texas: From guns to immigration, here’s how one state’s challenges echo the country’s

Associated Press  

HOUSTON — Thirteen people dead in two mass shootings. He’s furious at how Republicans “bleed every vote they can out of West Texas” to overcome growing populations in the state’s heavily Democratic urban centers, from Houston to Dallas, Austin to San Antonio. Instead, the number of mass shootings is simply a matter of size: “We’re a huge state — millions …

Gun safety advocates express horror at mass shooting in Texas and Gov Abbott’s response
1 year, 7 months ago

Gun safety advocates express horror at mass shooting in Texas and Gov Abbott’s response

The Independent  

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Federal judge strikes down Texas handgun age restriction
2 years, 3 months ago

Federal judge strikes down Texas handgun age restriction

Associated Press  

DALLAS — A federal judge has struck down one of Texas’ few remaining firearm restrictions, finding a law that barred adults under the age of 21 from carrying a handgun was unconstitutional. Pittman, an appointee of President Donald Trump, ruled in favor of the pair and the Firearms Policy Coalition Inc. based on “the Second Amendment’s text, as informed by …

Inside the minds of Americans who do not think guns are a problem
2 years, 6 months ago

Inside the minds of Americans who do not think guns are a problem

Al Jazeera  

Republicans in Texas double down on their pro-gun stance after the latest in a string of mass shootings in the state. Uvalde and Austin, Texas – At the National Rifle Association’s annual meeting, thousands of gun enthusiasts loudly applauded Republican Texas Senator Ted Cruz as he encouraged the crowd to stand up to liberal politicians whose “real goal is disarming …

Alabama won’t require background checks for concealed guns
2 years, 9 months ago

Alabama won’t require background checks for concealed guns

Associated Press  

MONTGOMERY, Ala. — Alabama will become the latest state to allow people to carry concealed handguns without first undergoing a background check and getting a state permit. Opponents, including state sheriffs and others in law enforcement, said the permits help combat crime and enhance public safety. Paula Wilson, a volunteer with the Alabama chapter of Moms Demand Action, called the …

California governor wants Texas-like law to ban assault guns
3 years ago

California governor wants Texas-like law to ban assault guns

Associated Press  

SACRAMENTO, Calif. — California Gov. The Texas law allows private citizens to enforce the ban, empowering them to sue abortion clinics and anyone else who “aids and abets” with the procedure. “If states can now shield their laws from review by the federal courts that compare assault weapons to Swiss Army knives, then California will use that authority to protect …

Texans to be allowed to carry concealed handguns without permits
3 years, 6 months ago

Texans to be allowed to carry concealed handguns without permits

Al Jazeera  

The governor of Texas signed into law a bill allowing unlicensed, concealed handguns to be carried in public. The governor of Texas has signed into law a bill allowing people to carry concealed handguns without any permit, joining 20 other states that already have such measures. Governor Greg Abbott, a Republican, touted the law as part of a package that …

Texas set to allow unlicensed handgun carry despite outcry
3 years, 7 months ago

Texas set to allow unlicensed handgun carry despite outcry

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — Texas is poised to remove one of its last major gun restrictions after lawmakers approved allowing people to carry handguns without a license, and the background check and training that go with it. Gun control groups also oppose the measure, noting the state’s recent history of mass shootings, including those at an El Paso Walmart, a church …

Texas pushes closer to dropping handgun license requirement
3 years, 7 months ago

Texas pushes closer to dropping handgun license requirement

Associated Press  

AUSTIN, Texas — In Texas, where gun laws are among the loosest in the U.S., there is one line the state has long resisted crossing: making it legal to carry a handgun in public without a permit, background check or training. But in a span of just weeks, Texas has suddenly pushed ever closer to becoming the largest state in …

Amid gun control debate, federal court rules states may restrict open carry of weapons
3 years, 9 months ago

Amid gun control debate, federal court rules states may restrict open carry of weapons

LA Times  

A man carries his weapon during a 2nd Amendment gun rally on Feb. 8, 2020, at the Capitol in Salt Lake City. As the nation debates gun control following two mass shootings in Colorado and Georgia, a California-based federal appeals court decided Wednesday that states may restrict the open carrying of guns without running afoul of the 2nd Amendment. In …

Feds seek to keep guns seized after West Texas mass shooting
4 years, 5 months ago

Feds seek to keep guns seized after West Texas mass shooting

Associated Press  

DALLAS — Prosecutors are seeking to keep dozens of guns and firearm accessories seized from a man whose home was searched last year following a mass shooting in West Texas that left more than 20 people injured and seven dead. The search of Braziel’s home last September came days after another man drove through Odessa and Midland, neighboring cities 140 …

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