On this week’s TribCast, Emily talks to Evan, Ross, Shannon and Emma about the national spotlight on the Ted Cruz/Beto O’Rourke race, the new chancellor of the University of Texas System and the Austin man selling 3D printed gun blueprints online.
guns In Texas
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Election judges can carry guns to the polls, Texas attorney general says
Election judges who work long hours in rural areas had expressed safety concerns, a Republican lawmaker told Paxton in March.
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Criminal Justice
Blocked from giving away 3D-printed gun blueprints, Texas man says he’s selling them instead
Austin “crypto-anarchist” Cody Wilson says buyers can name their price for 3D-printed gun blueprints.
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Public Education
Betsy DeVos is considering allowing federal funds to arm teachers. Texas may have given her the idea.
A Trump administration official told Education Week that Texas first raised the possibility of using federal grants for that purpose.
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Higher Education
Federal appeals court upholds Texas campus carry law
A three-judge panel of the U.S. 5th Circuit Court of Appeals upheld a prior dismissal of a lawsuit filed by three professors at the University of Texas at Austin, which aimed to block the law and allow professors to prohibit firearms in their classrooms.
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Public Education
How Texas educators train before arming themselves at school
The school marshal program allows certain school staffers to carry a firearm and neutralize active shooters on campus. Here’s how participants train.
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TribCast
TribCast: Sir Winston, Cruz’s call to arms, a new UT chancellor
On this week’s TribCast, Ross talks with Evan, Matthew and Patrick about Gov. Greg Abbott’s fake Winston Churchill quote, the U.S. Senate race, the chancellor-to-be at the University of Texas System and guns.
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Texas Senate school safety committee recommends focusing on mental health, avoids gun control
The Senate Select Committee on Violence in Schools and School Safety also wants to explore new funding to help arm certain school employees.
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Courts
Blocked from distributing plans for 3D-printed guns, “crypto-anarchist” is still in the DIY gun business
Cody Wilson’s group Defense Distributed is known for attempting to upload the digital blueprints for 3D-printed guns. But he also helps customers make unregistered, unserialized conventional firearms.
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Courts
Following lawsuits, Texas company’s plans to upload blueprints for 3D-printed guns are on hold
An Austin organization founded by a self-identified anarchist is no longer releasing information on how to use 3D printers to make guns at home in light of legal challenges from states.
