The families of Uvalde shooting victims wait hours to testify at a House committee hearing in support of House Bill 2744, which would raise the minimum age to purchase semi-automatic guns from 18 to 21.
Jasmine Cazares places a hand on her father, Javier, to console him, while he speaks through tears, testifying in favor of HB 2744, which seeks to raise the age required to purchase semiautomatic rifles from 18 to 21, to the Community Safety Committee in the state Capitol in Austin on Tuesday., The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news.
At one point crying, Javier Cazares testified his daughter Jacklyn Cazares, 9, never learned to ride a bike or make it to the fifth grade or become a vet. “All that we are asking is for reasonable common sense laws,” he said. The Uvalde gunman used an AR-15 style rifle in the shooting, which he purchased within days of turning 18 – after unsuccessfully trying to persuade relatives to illegally buy him a gun.
King said a revised bill would add exceptions to certain temporary loans of such a firearm, for instance for shooting on the property of the owner.
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