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AUSTIN — Young adults may soon be allowed to carry handguns in public, after the state on Tuesday gave up defending the age-based restrictions in court. A federal judge earlier this year declared the state firearm law unconstitutional. While the Department of Public Safety initially planned to fight the ruling, the state agency reversed course and on Tuesday withdrew its …

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