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Currently, Texans can obtain guns through private sales and gun shows to avoid federal background check requirements. Firearms used for mass shootings and many other gun deaths were purchased through these private sales. Seventy-eight percent of Texas voters support strengthening background checks, recognizing that we must do more to keep guns out of the hands of individuals with dangerous histories. This measure could have prevented the mobile mass shooting in Midland-Odessa.Still wrong! As stated a felon can't legally buy a gun so if one tried anyway, there would be no background check. Just shut up and sit down.
- Texas has NO state requirement for comprehensive background checks when purchasing a firearm. Therefore, persons prohibited from owning firearms due to a history of violence or severe mental illness can easily obtain a gun - on the internet, at a gun show, and from private sellers.
- In 2019, a man fatally shot seven people and wounded 25 others in Midland-Odessa. The shooter failed a criminal background check when trying to purchase a gun, yet loopholes enabled him to obtain the AR-style weapon used in his deadly attack from an unlicensed seller who wasn’t required to run a background check.
- Experts estimate that one in five guns are purchased in Texas without a background check, through private sales.