Valley Interfaith: Guillen is 'actively suppressing' assault rifle age bill from reaching House floo

AUSTIN, Texas – State Rep. Ryan Guillen may well be the chairman of the House Select Committee on Community Safety but a community group in the Rio Grande Valley says he is not keeping Texas communities safe.

Valley Interfaith alleges that Guillen, R-Rio Grande City, is “actively suppressing” House Bill 2744 from heading to the Calendars Committee by not submitting a Committee report on the bill.

State Rep. Tracy King, D-Batesville, is author of HB 2744. He represents Uvalde. King’s bill would raise the age a person could buy semi-automatic rifles to 21.

King authored his bill in response to the 2022 massacre at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde in which an 18-year-old used a legally purchased AR-15-style rifle to shoot 39 people – mostly schoolchildren in the fourth grade – killing 21 of them.


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