18-year-olds can buy an AR-15-style rifle in Texas. Now some Uvalde residents want the legal age raised.
A memorial for the victims of the Robb Elementary School shooting outside Uvalde's town square grows every day, with visitors bringing flowers and other gifts to honor the 21 dead.Each day is the same routine: he parks his truck in one of the spots around the square, rolls down his windows, faces the growing memorial for the victims and thinks.
Garcia said he doesn’t know what’s going to happen after this shooting. But he hopes the state changes at least one gun law.“Let’s face it, your insurance, your auto insurance, if you are less than 25 years old, it goes skyrocket because between the ages of the time you drive to the age [of 25] — they figured you are still a kid,” Garcia said. “You haven’t grown up enough.”Currently,
Garcia, who is a veteran of the U.S. Army, has a few firearms himself, including an AR-15. That’s the type of semi-automatic rifle purchased by the Uvalde shooter days before the tragedy. “It’s hard what happened — how this child, being 18, was able to get a gun when was not old enough to buy beers, cigarettes,” Martinez said.
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