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Allie Morris

Texas safety officials stop enforcing handgun age limits for young adults

AUSTIN, Texas – The Texas Department of Public Safety is no longer enforcing a state law that bars adults under 21 from carrying handguns in public.

The change was announced in a Jan. 10 memo sent to DPS officers.

It comes after a federal judge declared the age limits unconstitutional, and the state gave up defending the handgun law without any explanation.

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