The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has affirmed a lower court’s ruling that banning the purchase of handguns by people younger than 21 does not infringe on those individuals’ constitutional privileges.
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Richards Sets a Politically Fateful Course on Guns
In this excerpt from Jan Reid’s Let the People In: The Life and Times of Ann Richards, the author looks at events that sharpened Texans’ desire for more liberal gun laws and put them at odds with their governor.
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Gun-Printing Project Catches Eye of Law Enforcement
A group of civil libertarians led by a University of Texas law student wants to teach people how to use 3-D printing technologies to make their own guns at home. But the buzzed-about project has drawn the attention of federal law enforcement.
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Shootings Don’t Spark Calls for Gun Restrictions
Despite recent high-profile shootings in Texas and other states, advocates on all sides of the gun-control debate say there is little chance for change to gun laws.
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Video: Ted Nugent Unplugged
Ted Nugent unplugged: The rocker and Second Amendment defender weighs in on everything from Mitt Romney and the Trayvon Martin case to his theory that President Obama was raised by Communists. Viewer discretion advised.
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Rocker Ted Nugent is Bearing Arms and Cranking Up Controversy
If you thought a little Secret Service investigation or a $10,000 bear hunting fine would tame the “Motor City Madman,” well, you probably have never sat down for a chat with Ted Nugent.
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Weekend Insider: Ted Nugent Talks
This week in The New York Times and at texastribune.org, Jay Root talks with rock-and-roll star and Second Amendment advocate Ted Nugent.
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ATF: Two-Thirds of Guns Recovered in Mexico Come From the U.S.
An estimated 68,000 of the more than 99,000 guns submitted to U.S. authorities by Mexican law enforcement for tracing had origins here, according to the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives.
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ALEC Will End Work on Gun Laws, Plano Legislator Says
The American Legislative Exchange Council is eliminating its committee that developed policies on crime and elections. State Rep. Jerry Madden, chairman of the committee, said the group will no longer focus on gun laws.
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TribWeek: In Case You Missed It
The first two parts of M. Smith’s series on failing school districts (plus Murphy and Seger’s interactive on how districts’ characteristics relate to ratings), Root on lagging GOP candidates for president trying to shore things up in Texas, Ramshaw on a “fiscal switcheroo” to get federal money for women’s health programs, Galbraith talks to a West Texas farmer about crop insurance and climate change and Aguilar on the money behind a lawsuit on long rifle sales: The best of our best content from April 2 to 6, 2012.
