Ten new pro-gun laws will take effect in Texas in four weeks, less than a month after 22 people died in a mass shooting at a Walmart in El Paso.
"We experienced one of the worst disasters in Texas history during Harvey," Acevedo said when the bill was passed in May, adding:". This will embolden 20,000+ gang members and will not help law enforcement."
The NRA did suffer one defeat when Abbott signed the state budget bill, to which lawmakers had quietly added $1 million toA separate bill to fund the program had earlier been defeated under lobbying by the NRA, which argued that gun rights groups and gun manufacturers already organize similar initiatives and that state-run campaigns could be"corrupted" by anti-gun rhetoric.
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