AOC, Texas Rep. Crenshaw clash over background checks: ‘Why are you “lending” guns to people unsupervised?'
Rep. Dan Crenshaw, R-Texas, shared on Twitter a local news report about a woman police say shot and wounded a suspected robber who reached for her purse.
Texas law allows private gun owners to sell or lend a handgun to anyone who is over the age of 18 and not a felon. The state does not require background checks for private sales of firearms. “The people you’re giving a gun to have likely abused their spouse or have a violent criminal record, [and] you may not know it,” she added. “Why on earth would you do that?”
His tweet comes amid a push by Democrats and some Republicans to reform U.S. gun laws in the wake of a string of deadly mass shootings, including two in Crenshaw’s home state.
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