Paxton seeks to block closing gun show loophole [View all]
KERA | By Caroline Love
Published May 1, 2024 at 10:57 AM CDT
Just days before the first anniversary of a mass shooting in Allen, Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton has weighed in on a gun control issue — opposing efforts by the Biden Administration to close what’s known as the “gun show loophole.”
Paxton and Kansas Attorney General Kris Kobach announced on Wednesday that they are suing the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives at a press conference at the Frisco Gun Club ...
The facility is less than a half an hour from the Allen Premium Outlets, where a gunman killed eight people before he was fatally shot last year ...
Mauricio Garcia, the Allen gunman, reportedly purchased most of the guns he used to kill his victims legally through private sales that didn’t require a background check. Under the new rule – which was not in force at the time he made the purchases — he would have had to have undergone a background check ...
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