Bill Text: TX SCR11 | 2023-2024 | 88th Legislature | Introduced
Bill Title: Memorializing Congress to repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA).
Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 6-0)
Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2023-02-17 - Referred to State Affairs [SCR11 Detail]
Download: Texas-2023-SCR11-Introduced.html
By: Gutierrez, et al. | S.C.R. No. 11 | |
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WHEREAS, Federal law protects firearms manufacturers and | ||
dealers from being held liable when crimes have been committed with | ||
their products; and | ||
WHEREAS, The foundational premise of American law is that | ||
victims of harm may seek redress in court against wrongdoers, and, | ||
in every state, a business or an individual can be sued for | ||
negligence when their conduct lacks reasonable care that | ||
foreseeably results in harm to others; and | ||
WHEREAS, There were more than 4,000 gun-related deaths in | ||
Texas in 2020 and gun violence in Texas costs $16.6 billion dollars | ||
per year; and | ||
WHEREAS, More guns are purchased in Texas than in any other | ||
state, and Texans purchased more than 1.6 million guns in 2021, | ||
about one gun for every 14 adults in the state; and | ||
WHEREAS, Texas also leads the United States in the number of | ||
firearm mortalities, from 1999-2020, 4,090 Texas children died from | ||
gun-related injuries; and | ||
WHEREAS, Texas also leads the Nation in mass shootings; and | ||
WHEREAS, On May 24, 2022, 19 school children and two teachers | ||
were murdered during the attack on Robb Elementary in Uvalde Texas | ||
using a weapon manufactured by Daniel Defense; and | ||
WHEREAS, Gun manufacturers like Daniel's Defense advertise | ||
their product to children and young men using incendiary marketing | ||
that appeal to consumers based on hyper-masculinity, sexuality, and | ||
militarism; and | ||
WHEREAS, Like many other firearms companies, Daniel Defense | ||
also sought placement of its products in movies and video games, and | ||
Daniel Defense took special pride in alerting its followers to the | ||
appearance of one of its DDM4 V7 rifles in the new Call of Duty: | ||
Modern Warfare game, and this is the same weapon used by the | ||
attacker on Robb Elementary; and | ||
WHEREAS, In 2022 gun industry trade show in Las Vegas Wee1 | ||
Tactical used cartoons to market JR-15s (Junior AR-15s) to kids and | ||
customers flocked to its booth, and the company was named on some | ||
"best of" show lists; and | ||
WHEREAS, Six of the nine deadliest mass shootings in the | ||
United States since 2018 were by people who were 21 or younger, and | ||
these perpetrators fit in a critical age range - roughly 15 to 25 - | ||
that law enforcement officials, researchers and policy experts | ||
consider a hazardous crossroads for young men, a period when they | ||
are in the throes of developmental changes and societal pressures | ||
that can turn them toward violence in general, and, in the rarest | ||
cases, mass shootings; and | ||
WHEREAS, Horrible gun-violence tragedies will continue as | ||
long as gun manufacturers and gun dealers are not held accountable | ||
for their irresponsible marketing and dangerous advertisements | ||
that, in part, lead to some of the worst gun-related tragedies that | ||
this State has endured since its inception; now, therefore, be it | ||
RESOLVED, That the 88th Legislature of the State of Texas, | ||
hereby respectfully urge the Congress of the United States to | ||
repeal the Protection of Lawful Commerce in Arms Act (PLCAA); 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. |