Guns In Texas

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.

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Election judges who work long hours in rural areas had expressed safety concerns, a Republican lawmaker told Paxton in March.

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Austin "crypto-anarchist" Cody Wilson says buyers can name their price for 3D-printed gun blueprints.

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A Trump administration official told Education Week that Texas first raised the possibility of using federal grants for that purpose.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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After a Senate hearing on the laws, which can remove guns from people deemed dangerous, Patrick indicated any legislation would die in his chamber.

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In their third scheduled meeting, the Senate Select Committee on Violence in Schools and School Security discussed the role of mental health in school shootings and ways to address it. But questions of funding kept popping up.

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Students have been referred to law enforcement in dramatically higher numbers after the school shootings in Parkland and Santa Fe. A study suggests the arrests show a return to zero-tolerance policies that can harm students.

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The announcement aligns neatly with Texas leadership's goal of "hardening" schools as targets.

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In a steady rain of bad news — shootings, immigrant family separations, harsh political differences — one thing stands out. We're tenacious.

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West Texas A&M opened a simulated emergency operations center on campus to train student teachers on how to respond to crises, including active shooters and natural disasters.

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Gun laws should be stricter, according to a majority of the voters surveyed in a new University of Texas/Texas Tribune Poll, but that's only one of several things they blame for recent school shootings.

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Gun rights advocates and student protesters at the Capitol on Monday argued over possible legislation to remove guns from people deemed dangerous and to mandate safe storage of firearms. The hearing was held after Gov. Greg Abbott requested legislators look at gun and school safety after the fatal Santa Fe school shooting.

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As part of his school and gun safety plan, Gov. Greg Abbott wants to explore a law that would allow local officials to take guns away from people if a judge declares them a danger — while also protecting Second Amendment rights. It's an issue that has previously gone nowhere in the Texas Legislature.

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Following Gov. Greg Abbott's recommendations on school gun safety, members of a Senate committee on school violence debated the efficacy of expanding programs that already arm faculty and school staff.

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