Texas Moves to Eliminate Firearm Licenses Amid Heated Gun Debate
- Measure blasted as ‘very dangerous bill’ by gun-safety group
- Statehouse vote came same night as Indianapolis mass shooting
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Texas is on the verge of allowing residents to carry firearms in public without any sort of license, a rebuff to gun-control advocates alarmed by the specter of mass shootings.
A proposal to eliminate handgun permits for anyone 21 years or older received preliminary approval in the state House of Representatives late Thursday. The vote came on the same night that a gunman killed eight people, including himself, in a FedEx Corp. warehouse in Indianapolis.