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Bill to raise age on AR-style gun purchases advances through committee days after Allen shooting

By Allie Morris, The Dallas Morning News (TNS)
Posted 5/9/23

Facing pressure from parents whose children died in the Uvalde school massacre, a Texas House committee voted Monday to raise the minimum age to buy AR-style rifles from 18 to 21. Two …

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