As part of a new gun safety campaign in Houston, local officials are giving out thousands of free dun safes to secure firearms.
"It's not fair to those people that they sent a foreign exchange student over here to learn and to grow, and we killed her," said Scot Rice. His wife, Flo, was also shot during that massacre but survived.This past Tuesday, they traveled to the State Capitol with other victims' families from Santa Fe and Uvalde to lobby for several gun safety reform bills including safe storage, increasing the legal purchasing age to 21, or increasing the waiting period.
"If you're going to sell guns to 18-year-olds, how about a waiting period? So, the like the Uvalde shooter went in two days in a row and bought, you know, 4,000 rifles, 900 rounds one time and 1000 rounds another time. And there should be a waiting period until you're 21. In that 30-day waiting period, you know they could have looked into him and see what was going on in his life," Rice said.
Last week, Santa Fe families won a lawsuit against an ammo retailer LuckyGunner, who apparently sold more than 100 rounds to the underaged shooter in 2018. The settlement now requires the company to verify the age of all ammo buyers, especially when it's purchased online.
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