Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan rules out raising the minimum age to buy a firearm

Dade Phelan, speaker of the Texas House, talks with Evan Smith on Friday at The Texas Tribune Festival in Austin. (Credit: Eddie Gaspar/The Texas Tribune)

Texas House Speaker Dade Phelan said the state Legislature will not pass meaningful gun safety legislation during its next session but signaled members of his caucus may be open to creating limited exceptions to the state’s abortion ban.

Families of the Uvalde school shooting victims, along with House and Senate Democrats, have repeatedly called for a special session to raise the minimum age to buy a firearm from 18 to 21.