Texas lawmakers may be on a path to passing bipartisan legislation which aims to cut off a loophole in a 2009 law that's meant to prevent people with a history of mental health issues from obtaining firearms.
showed juveniles were being excluded from the national firearms background check system. The author of the 2009 law, former state lawmaker Elliott Naishtat, said the measure was intended to apply to all Texans regardless of age.
Last June, Congress passed gun reform legislation that requires federal investigators to look into state databases for juvenile mental health records. But those records would fail to reveal court-ordered juvenile commitments in Texas due to the lack of reporting. A law enforcement personnel stands next to a large teddy bear at a memorial honoring the victims in this week's school shooting in Uvalde, Texas Saturday, May 28, 2022. If the bill passes, Texas courts will be required to share involuntary mental health hospitalization records for juveniles 16 and older with the Texas Department of Public Safety.
The suspect had recently purchased an AR-style rifle and considered the gunman who killed 22 people at Robb Elementary School in Uvalde to be an"idol" and threatened to commit a mass shooting at an Amazon delivery station where he worked,
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