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applicant. If the applicant fails the mandatory tests then the
license is denied. In order to qualify an applicant must have a
clean criminal record, attend at least 10 hours of classes with
a state-certified instructor, pass a 50-question test, pass a 50-
round shooting test and pass two background checks. One of the
tests is "shallow" and the other a "deep" background test. Both
checks are aimed at ensuring that concealed-carry licenses are
only granted to those the state feels are safe to have them.
Each license lasts four years.

The change had been campaigned for by one of the Luby’s
survivors, Suzanna Hupp. Hupp has testified at hearings and
events all over the United States in support of concealed-carry
laws and served in the Texas House of Representatives on the
Republican ticket between 1997 and 2006. She declined to seek re-
election after that period. The new law was signed by then-Texas
Governor George W. Bush prior to his seeking election as
President.

The town of Killeen (since rocked by two massacres at nearby
military base Fort Hood) constructed a memorial to those killed
and wounded. Built of simple pink granite, it bears the names of
the dead and the date of the massacre, October 16, 1991. It
stands behind the Killeen Community Center, not far from the
former Luby’s Cafeteria.

As for Luby’s itself, it has long since closed down. After the
cafeteria had been cleaned and repaired it went back to serving
customers as it had before George Hennard’s rampage. Business,
however, began to suffer. Despite a redesign and its owners
doing their best to keep it going, it closed permanently on
September 9, 2000, later re-opening as a Chinese-American buffet
under the name Yank Sing.

http://www.crimemagazine.com/lubys-cafeteria-massacre-1991
 

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