A Republican-led Texas House committee has advanced a bill that would raise the purchase age for semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21 even though the proposal has little chance of actually becoming law.
Family members of the victims of the Uvalde shootings react after a Texas House committee voted to take up a bill to limit the age for purchasing AR-15 style weapons in the full House in Austin, Texas, May 8, 2023.The rotunda of the Texas state Capitol echoed Monday morning with pleas from more than 160 activists, among them more than a dozen, who gathered in Austin to demand the legislature take action on gun reform.
Protesters, some holding photos of victims of the Robb Elementary shooting in Uvalde, gather at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, May 8, 2023, to call for tighter regulations on gun sales, after a gunman killed several people at a Dallas-area mall on May 6.Protesters gather at the Texas State Capitol in Austin, Texas, May 8, 2023, to call for tighter regulations on gun sales, after a gunman killed several people at a Dallas-area mall on May 6.
"I'm so sorry I'm not strong today. Maybe that's what y'all need to see. Because at the end of the day, I'm just a mom who wants my daughter back who doesn't want another mom to know my pain," said Rubio, a journalist and a mom of six, as tears rolled down her cheeks.
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