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The Texas Tribune
The Texas Tribune
National
Alejandro Serrano

Uvalde’s state lawmakers face an uphill battle raising the age limit for semi-automatic guns. They’re trying anyway.

The truck and weapons of Salvador Rolando Ramos remains crashed in a ditch near Robb Elementary School in Uvalde, where he entered and killed 19 students and two teachers on May 24, 2022.
The truck and one of the two AR-15-style weapons purchased by the shooter in a ditch near Robb Elementary School in Uvalde. The shooter, a teenager, killed 19 students and two teachers on May 24, 2022. (Credit: Courtesy of Pete Luna/Uvalde Leader-News)

UVALDE — Tracy King was getting ready to head to lunch from his office in this town straddling the Hill Country and South Texas on May 24 when he heard the sirens heading toward Robb Elementary.

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