Families of the 21 victims killed in a Texas elementary school shooting last May gathered to renew their calls for tighter assault weapon restrictions, just days after three separate shootings in California left 24 people dead.
No Republican lawmakers joined Democrats who stood with victims' families and gun control advocates in a news conference outside the Senate floor. Some Republican senators walked past on their way out of the chamber.
Slain Uvalde teacher Irma Garcia was shot 11 times from her head to her legs with an AR-15-style rife, her sister, Marisol Lozano, said. She recalled seeing her sister's face and hands reconstructed for the funeral to hide the bullet wounds.
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