Bill Text: TX HCR88 | 2019-2020 | 86th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Urging Congress to pass stricter gun laws, including a ban on the sale of assault weapons.
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 1-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2019-03-12 - Referred to Homeland Security & Public Safety [HCR88 Detail]
Download: Texas-2019-HCR88-Introduced.html
86R13433 CLE-D | ||
By: Reynolds | H.C.R. No. 88 |
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WHEREAS, Polls show that a majority of Americans support | ||
stricter gun laws, including universal background checks, | ||
mandatory waiting periods for gun purchases, and a ban on the sale | ||
of assault weapons and high-capacity magazines; and | ||
WHEREAS, A 2018 national poll found that 67 percent of | ||
Americans support a nationwide ban on the sale of assault weapons, | ||
which are weapons with military features that enable shooters to | ||
spray large amounts of ammunition quickly; semiautomatic rifles | ||
with a detachable magazine and a pistol grip are among the assault | ||
weapons that two-thirds of Americans believe should be banned from | ||
sale; and | ||
WHEREAS, National polling also indicates that 53 percent of | ||
Americans support a ban on the sale of high-capacity magazines; a | ||
majority of Americans are aware that when high-capacity magazines | ||
are used to give a mass shooter more rounds of ammunition, deaths | ||
and injuries rise sharply; an investigation into mass shootings in | ||
the United States found that high-capacity magazines were used in | ||
half of the shootings between 1982 and 2012; and | ||
WHEREAS, The high level of support for universal background | ||
checks reflects concern about the "gun show loophole" that allows | ||
as many as 40 percent of all gun sales to be completed without a | ||
background check of the gun buyer; polls show that 97 percent of | ||
Americans and 97 percent of gun owners support universal background | ||
checks; and | ||
WHEREAS, National polls also show a high level of support for | ||
mandatory waiting periods for gun purchases; 83 percent of | ||
Americans believe that a "cooling off" period between purchasing | ||
and obtaining a gun would save lives; and | ||
WHEREAS, Americans support an assault weapons ban and other | ||
stricter gun laws because such laws would make us all safer; now, | ||
therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 86th Legislature of the State of Texas | ||
hereby respectfully urge the United States Congress to pass | ||
stricter gun laws, including a ban on the sale of assault weapons; | ||
and, be it further | ||
RESOLVED, That the Texas secretary of state forward official | ||
copies of this resolution to the president of the United States, to | ||
the president of the Senate and the speaker of the House of | ||
Representatives of the United States Congress, and to all the | ||
members of the Texas delegation to Congress with the request that | ||
this resolution be entered in the Congressional Record as a | ||
memorial to the Congress of the United States of America. |