The Texas Senate approved this Monday - with 17 votes in favor and 13 against - the bill that would
allow those over 21 years of age to carry firearms in public without permission and without a police background check
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The measure also eliminates the mandatory training course that was required to obtain a license of this type.
The governor of Texas, Greg Abbott, commented this Monday on the social network Twitter that they are "on the way to becoming a sanctuary state" of the Second Amendment of the Constitution.
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He also noted that bill HB-2622 presented by Republican Justin Holland will protect Texas "from any new federal regulation on gun control."
"Politicians at the federal level have told local politicians that 'the government will take away their weapons,' but that will not happen in Texas," said the Republican president who has received criticism from police groups because
the legislation would endanger the public. and law enforcement
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Gun control groups also oppose the measure, pointing to the recent history of mass shootings in the state, including at the El Paso Walmart store, a church in Sutherland Springs and a high school in the town of Santa Fe. outside of Houston, although in each of those attacks,
the assailants used primarily assault rifles, not handguns.
The Senate in Texas approved the bill that allows carrying firearms without permission and without checking their police records.
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The legislation would not prevent companies from banning guns on their property and would maintain federal background checks in some cases.
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Supporters of the bill say it would allow Texans to better defend themselves in public while abolishing unnecessary impediments to the constitutional right to bear arms.
Once signed into law, Texas will join nearly two dozen other states that allow some form of unregulated carrying of a firearm.
However, Texas is the most populous of them all.
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The southern state already has some of the most flexible gun laws in the country and has more than 1.6 million firearms licensees.
With information from AP
