Texas House panel approves bill to raise age limit for semi-automatic guns.

A Texas House committee has advanced a bill that would raise the minimum age to purchase certain semi-automatic rifles, days after the Allen mall shooting. The bill faces an uphill climb to becoming state law, but the vote marked a milestone for the proposal that relatives of Uvalde shooting victims have been pushing for months. The bill was debated before the House select committee last month during a hearing in which relatives of Uvalde victims shared emotional accounts of lives torn asunder by gun violence.