Gun Policy News, 13 January 1998
Group Says 946 Gun Licensees Arrested
13 January 1998
United Press International
AUSTIN, Texas — An anti-gun group is claiming that 946 Texans who held a concealed handgun license were arrested in the first 22 months that the state's carry law was in effect.
The Washington-based Violence Policy Center released a report in Austin today that said 263 of the arrests were for felonies, including six charges of murder or attempted murder involving at least four deaths.
Susan Glick, the VPC's health policy analyst and author of the study, said,... (GunPolicy.org)