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A new poll finds that sizable majorities of Texas voters — including Republicans — support raising the minimum age to buy all guns from 18 to 21 as a state House committee faces pressure to advance a similar proposal. Released Wednesday, the survey from the University of Texas at Austin found 76% of voters support “raising the legal age to purchase any firearm from 18 years of age to 21 years of age.” Twenty percent of voters oppose the idea. Republicans back the proposal 64% to 31%. The finding comes as families of victims of the Uvalde school shooting press the House Select Committee on Community Safety to approve a bill that would increase the age to purchase a semi-automatic rifle from 18 to 21. The committee held a hearing on the legislation about two weeks ago but has not taken a vote to send it to the full House yet. The deadline to do so is Monday. The proposal has always faced long odds, as Gov. Greg Abbott and other Texas GOP leaders have opposed it, calling it … [Read more...] about Poll finds solid majority of Texans, even Republicans, favor raising age for gun purchases

This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate 5 NEW YORK (AP) — After most mass shootings that capture the public's attention, national news organizations will send reporters for a few days, a week maybe, before moving on. There's always another community, another tragedy. ABC News tried something different after 19 elementary school students and two teachers were shot and killed in Uvalde, Texas, last May. The journalists stayed. For a year, ABC News kept a team in Uvalde. The result is a nuanced portrait of what happens over time to a suffering community, as seen in the two-hour documentary, “It Happened Here — A Year in Uvalde,” that airs Friday on ABC and Saturday on Hulu. “What we discovered has been profoundly moving and inspiring and, we hope, useful,” said ABC News President Kim Godwin. The story's richness is in the details: There are the children's rooms left undisturbed since May 24, 2022, the brush … [Read more...] about ABC News crew spends year in Uvalde, documents journey of survivors, families of shooting victims