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Texas has seen a significant rise in firearm-related fatalities over the past two decades. According to the U.S. Centers for disease control and prevention, the firearm death rate in Texas has reached 15 per 100,000 people in 2021, marking a 50% increase since 1999. [12]
[7] [8] In 2011, he founded Central Texas Gun Works in Austin. [6] [9] In 2014, Cargill ran for the Texas House of Representatives to represent the 50th district in a special election held in January, but he was unsuccessful. [10] In the same year, his store was named America's first Bitcoin gun store. [11]
Tensions over where and how gun owners can carry firearms in public are frequent in Texas, but the standoff with one of the state's most b ... But that decision by fair organizers — which comes ...
A 2021 Texas law designed to protect the energy and firearms industries is costing the state hundreds of millions of dollars in business-related activity while increasing costs for state and local ...
Pedro Pascal eating a sandwich . 2023 was the year the internet fell even more in love with actor Pedro Pascal. Pascal, in one of many memes he inspired this year, eats a sandwich peacefully.
The year with the most gun homicides was 1991 with 1,835 and has steadily been declining since then and now total firearms homicides account for less than 1,000 per year. [6] The rate of firearms homicides per 100,000 people in Texas had declined to around 4 in the year 2000, but has risen since, to nearly 6 in 2005 (see chart).
A federal report released in February 2023 showed that 54% of guns that police recovered at crime scenes in 2021 had been purchased within three years, a double-digit increase since 2019. The ...
[5] [6] On the other end of the spectrum, some states, such as Utah, only impose criminal liability when a minor is directly provided a gun by an adult. [5] In Massachusetts, all firearms are required to be stored using a locking device, [5] and allowing a child unsupervised access to a handgun can result in a $5,000 fine and/or 2.5 years in ...