Republican state lawmakers in Florida have filed two bills that would roll back gun control measures passed in the wake of the 2018 shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The proposals would repeal the state’s red flag law and another preventing people under the age of 21 from buying a rifle.
Student survivors from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and faculty were killed in a mass shooting, walk past the house legislative committee room to talk to legislators at the state Capitol regarding gun control legislation in Tallahassee, Fla., Feb. 21, 2018. TALLAHASSEE, Fla.
Even with a conservative supermajority in the Legislature, the measures are expected to face some resistance in the state Senate, where the chamber’s new president has expressed opposition to certain gun rights proposals. After a gunman killed 17 people and injured 17 others at the suburban Broward County high school in 2018, survivors of the Parkland massacre and family members of the victimsin an extraordinary feat of advocacy, demanding action from the Republican-led legislature that had previously shunned gun control measures but nonetheless passed, which allows courts to take away guns from people who pose a danger to themselves or others, and a measure raising the age for buying a rifle from 18 to 21.
Republican Sen. Randy Fine filed a measure that would roll back the law preventing people under the age of 21 from buying rifles.While the Florida House has advanced gun rights bills in the years since Parkland, leaders in the state Senate have blocked. Last month, newly-sworn in Senate President Ben Albritton told reporters that he doesn’t support open carry and is skeptical of rolling back other measures passed in the wake of the 2018 shooting.
“I’ve supported law enforcement my entire life And I stand with them today in opposition,” Albritton said of open carry.Payne writes about state government and education and is based in Tallahassee, FL. She is a Report for America corps member.
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