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Diego Ortiz, left, Joe Martinez and others attend the Raise Our Voices to Raise the Age March for Our Lives Rally at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, Saturday, Aug. 27, 2022. March For Our Lives, a youth-led gun control group, hosted the rally with Uvalde and Santa Fe parents to demand that Governor Abbott moves immediately to call a special session and raise the minimum age to purchase an AR-15 from 18 to 21.Over the past six years alone, Texas has suffered five major mass shootings.
More than two-thirds of Texans support six of these reforms, underscoring the broad consensus among the Texas public to pass a wide range of commonsense gun laws. Four other reforms possess majority support, but also face intense and substantial opposition, suggesting that at the present time they do not provide the same type of fertile ground for consensus reform.
Second, 78 percent of Texans support the passage of legislation requiring universal criminal background checks on all gun buyers, including those purchasing a firearm at gun shows or via private sales. This reform is supported by 90 percent of Democrats, 73 percent of independents and 70 percent of Republicans. Four out of five Republican women support closing the “gun show loophole.” Only 12 percent of Texans, and less than one-fifth of Republicans, oppose this reform.
Two-thirds of Texans support raising the age to purchase any firearm from 18 to 21 and also support establishing a waiting period between the time a person purchases an assault rifle and takes possession of it. These reforms are respectively opposed by 20 and 17 percent of Texans, including 36 and 30 percent of Republicans, non-trivial proportions, but ones which are notably lower than the proportion of Republicans in support of these two reforms .
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