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Texas

LetMyPeopleVote

(155,578 posts) Mon May 8, 2023, 12:57 PM May 2023

In surprise move, Texas House panel OKs bill raising age to buy semi-automatic rifles

I doubt that there will be a floor vote or senate action but this committee vote makes me smile. Abbott would veto this bill if it did get passed by the Texas legis

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https://www.texastribune.org/2023/05/08/texas-gun-bill-uvalde-allen-mall-shooting/

In a surprise move days after the Allen mall shooting and hours before a key legislative deadline, a Texas House committee advanced a bill Monday that would raise the minimum age to purchase certain semi-automatic rifles.

The bill faces an uphill climb to becoming state law, but the vote marked a milestone for the proposal that relatives of Uvalde shooting victims have been pushing for months.

Several relatives of children who were killed in the Robb Elementary School shooting last year sobbed when the committee voted 8-5 to send the bill to the House floor. Republican state Reps. Sam Harless and Justin Holland joined with Democrats on the House Community Safety Select Committee to advance the bill.