Texas GOP Donors Buck Party to Urge New Gun Limits After Uvalde Shooting
- Reform measures include red-flag laws, background checks
- Governor Abbott made gun access even easier last year in Texas
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The chairman of the Republican Party of Texas rejected a plea from some of the party’s high-profile donors to toughen gun laws in the aftermath of the school shooting in Uvalde that killed 19 students and two teachers.
Such restrictions would “make Americans less safe,” Texas GOP Chairman Matt Rinaldi said by email Monday. His comments came a day after a cadre of donors in the Lone Star State broke with party orthodoxy to declare their support for measures such as expanded background checks, raising the age to purchase some weapons and toughening “red-flag” laws that can be used to take guns from unstable individuals.