Uvalde faculty board urges Texas governor to maneuver to lift age for semi-automatic rifle purchases

The Uvalde, Texas, faculty board handed a decision urging Gov. Greg Abbott (R) to name for a particular legislative session to cross laws to lift the authorized age to purchase semi-automatic rifles from 18 to 21 years outdated.

Uvalde Consolidated Impartial College District trustees voted unanimously to approve the measure on Monday, greater than two months after an 18-year-old gunman entered Uvalde Elementary College and killed 19 college students and two lecturers with an AR-style rifle.

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Uvalde County commissioners have additionally known as for Abbott to name for such a particular session, based on the Texas Tribune.

Within the aftermath of the varsity capturing, Abbott has targeted on boosting psychological well being assets and upping security plans within the faculty system. In June, he requested the Texas legislature to kind particular committees to make suggestions.

Regulation enforcement and the varsity district have confronted heavy backlash for taking so lengthy to cease the shooter, who was inside the lecture rooms the place he unleashed his assault for greater than an hour earlier than legislation enforcement stormed in and killed him, as proven in a not too long ago launched video.

An investigative report by a Texas Home committee discovered "systemic failures and egregious poor determination making" that prolonged past police, together with a household who didn't acknowledge and act on warning indicators and a college district that didn't adhere to its security plan.