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AUSTIN, Texas — Family members of victims killed in the Uvalde school shooting confronted Texas’ police chief Tuesday in an emotional end to a day of protests at the state Capitol over gun laws. Velma Duran, whose sister Irma Garcia was one of two teachers killed at Robb Elementary School last May, scolded Texas Department of Public Safety Director Steve …

Gun debate a side note in hearings on Uvalde shooting

AUSTIN, Texas — The first public hearings in Texas looking into the Uvalde school massacre have focused on a cascade of law enforcement blunders, school building safety and mental health care with only scant mentions of the shooter’s AR-15-style semi-automatic rifle and gun reform. But the Republican-dominated committee examining the tragedy in Uvalde appeared to have little appetite for new …

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Making sense of a mass shooting in the middle of Texas gun country

Randall Methvin is a thoughtful man who talks with a Texas twang, still works as a ranch hand at age 68 and has felt an affinity for firearms since childhood, when his Depression-hardened father would take him out quail and dove hunting. “I don’t hardly ever shoot them anymore, but when I do, I just go to the gun range, …

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