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Even before the mass shooting in Odessa, Texas’ two highest elected officials knew about a dangerous background check loophole in stranger-to-stranger gun sales. Gun reform advocate Ed Scruggs ...

AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — Texas will now let people carry handguns without first getting a background check and training, becoming the latest and largest on a growing list of states to roll back permitting ...

Lawmakers tried in 2009 to require that the state report all court-ordered mental health hospitalizations to a federal gun background check system. Juveniles have been left out. In the spring of 2009, ...

Experts said there is no data to show what percentage of Texas gun sales is done without a background check. See the sources for this fact-check In the first hours after the nation’s 27th school ...