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Gov. Greg Abbott, Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick and House Speaker Dennis Bonnen held the first meeting of the Texas Safety Commission at the Texas Capitol on Aug. 22, 2019. Marjorie Kamys Cotera for The Texas Tribune

Texas Gov. Greg Abbott tweeted Monday that the gunman in Saturday’s mass shooting in Midland and Odessa had previously failed a gun purchase background check and did not go through a background check to buy the gun used in Saturday’s incident. Abbott’s tweet did not say why the 36-year-old Odessa man didn’t ...

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