Deaths from firearms keep climbing in Texas, decades after lawmakers began weakening gun regulations

The Uvalde gun store where a gunman who killed 19 children and two teachers at Robb Elementary School last year legally purchased his weapons. The rate of gun-related deaths have been rising steadily in Texas in recent years. (Credit: REUTERS/Lisa Krantz)

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Deaths from firearms in Texas — the vast majority of them suicides or homicides — have continued rising in Texas, reaching levels not seen in almost three decades.