A Texas House committee is taking up gun bills on Tuesday in the first legislative session since the Uvalde school shooting.
, would apply to most Texans, but exempt police officers and members of the military.
Gun rights groups, including the National Rifle Association and a trade group for the firearm industry, opposed the legislation they said wouldn’t stand up to legal scrutiny. “We represent 18, 19 and 20 year-olds who are not mass shooters,” NRA lobbyist Tara Mica said. “We defend the constitution.” Stephen Willeford told lawmakers that he used an AR-15 to protect his community when he confronted the gunman in the 2017 Sutherland Springs massacre.“There’s nothing that prevents us from joining that conversation in the legal world about where the boundaries are when it comes to the Second Amendment,” Rep. Joe Moody, D-El Paso, said.
The bill’s immediate fate hinges on the committee’s Republican majority, whose members mostly didn’t let on to where they stand. Throughout the hearing, several members rested their heads in their hands, or wiped their eyes during the families’ tearful testimony.
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