Defying N.R.A., Florida Lawmakers Back Raising Age Limits on Assault Rifles
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Defying N.R.A., Florida Lawmakers Back Raising Age Limits on Assault Rifles
I think you need to have individuals who are trained, well trained.”
Mr. Scott, House Speaker Richard Corcoran and Senate President Joe Negron said they would
also push to ban “bump stocks,” which enable semiautomatic rifles to fire faster.
Rick Scott and top state lawmakers proposed on Friday the most significant move toward gun control in Florida in decades, backing new limits
that defy the National Rifle Association but fall short of demands from survivors of last week’s school shooting.
“I want to make it virtually impossible for anyone who has mental issues to use a gun,” said
Mr. Scott, who is widely expected to run for a United States Senate seat this year.
“Legislative proposals that prevent law-abiding adults aged 18-20 years old from acquiring rifles
and shotguns effectively prohibits them from purchasing any firearm, thus depriving them of their constitutional right to self-protection,” Jennifer Baker, an N. R.A.
spokeswoman, said in a statement on Thursday.
member, I’m a supporter of the Second Amendment, and the First Amendment, and the entire Bill of Rights for that matter,” Mr. Scott said on Friday.
Sofie Whitney, 18, who survived last week’s shooting in Parkland, Fla.,
and traveled to Tallahassee to lobby lawmakers for stricter gun laws, watched Mr. Scott’s news conference and started texting other survivors as it ended.
I think you need to have individuals who are trained, well trained.”
Mr. Scott, House Speaker Richard Corcoran and Senate President Joe Negron said they would
also push to ban “bump stocks,” which enable semiautomatic rifles to fire faster.
Rick Scott and top state lawmakers proposed on Friday the most significant move toward gun control in Florida in decades, backing new limits
that defy the National Rifle Association but fall short of demands from survivors of last week’s school shooting.
“I want to make it virtually impossible for anyone who has mental issues to use a gun,” said
Mr. Scott, who is widely expected to run for a United States Senate seat this year.
“Legislative proposals that prevent law-abiding adults aged 18-20 years old from acquiring rifles
and shotguns effectively prohibits them from purchasing any firearm, thus depriving them of their constitutional right to self-protection,” Jennifer Baker, an N. R.A.
spokeswoman, said in a statement on Thursday.
member, I’m a supporter of the Second Amendment, and the First Amendment, and the entire Bill of Rights for that matter,” Mr. Scott said on Friday.
Sofie Whitney, 18, who survived last week’s shooting in Parkland, Fla.,
and traveled to Tallahassee to lobby lawmakers for stricter gun laws, watched Mr. Scott’s news conference and started texting other survivors as it ended.