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The vote was 74-37, with five Republicans joining the majority of Democrats in opposing it and one Democrat (Jose Alvarez from Osceola County) supporting the measure. But for the fourth year in a row, the likelihood of the state repealing the law is doubtful, as a companion bill in the Senate has yet to be filed.

lorida’s House Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to pass for a full floor vote a bill that would lower the age to 18 to purchase firearms, including assault-style rifles.

Florida’s attorney general said he wouldn’t enforce a law –recently upheld by a U.S. appeals court – banning the sales of rifles and shotguns to anyone under 21.

A young, white gunman’s killing of three Black people over the weekend in Jacksonville, Florida, is again raising questions about so-called red flag laws

Floridians will be able to carry concealed guns without a permit starting on Saturday, July 1, 2023.

State Rep. Christine Hunschofsky, the mayor of Parkland at the time of the shooting, pleaded with her colleagues to keep the age restriction in place.

Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, R-Naples, said Wednesday she does not support a proposal to lower the minimum age from 21 to 18 to buy rifles and other long guns in Florida.

House panel supports a bill would reverse part of a 2018 law that set the minimum age to buy a gun at 21 after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

The House Judiciary Committee backed a proposal that combines allowing people to carry concealed firearms without licenses, despite Democratic arguments that easing gun restrictions would increase violence.

Agriculture Commissioner Wilton Simpson announced a proposal that takes aim at credit-card companies separately categorizing sales at gun shops. Meanwhile, proposals — inspired by a Parkland victim — that would require background checks on the sale or transfer of ammunition were filed by Democrat senators.

This year, as Nicole Ogburn prepares her classroom, her first priority is not the decorations she usually spends the summer picking out. Instead, it's buying things to make the classroom safer.

It's not a new debate — but could showing graphic evidence of mass school shootings change public opinion on gun laws?