Despite strong support from Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis (R) and fellow Second Amendment advocates, the push to return the state’s minimum age to purchase rifles and other long guns to 21 appears to be dead.
The state Senate is poised to block the proposal, and Rules Chairwoman Kathleen Passidomo (R) denied this week that the tragic mass shooting at Florida State University had anything to do with her decision.
The recent attack killed two and injured six others. The alleged gunman was also shot in the massive law enforcement response.
The stumbling block for reinstituting these rights is the Florida Senate. Apparently, for the third year in a row, the upper chamber will stymie attempts to lower the minimum age.
On March 26, the House voted overwhelmingly, 78-34, to repeal the controversial law that established the new minimum age requirement. That marked three consecutive years in which the body approved of this action, only for it to fall short.
Passidomo announced last week that her committee will not take up HB 759 to return gun rights to law-abiding young adults.
The federal minimum age for purchasing a handgun is 21, but before the 2018 mass shooting at Parkland’s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, Floridians 18 and over could buy a rifle or other long gun.
Critics charge that state lawmakers, including then-Gov. Rick Scott (R), issued an emotional response to the massacre. Several new gun control measures were passed in a rush, including denying full Second Amendment rights to young adults.
Passidomo, a former Senate president, said her stance has remained unchanged since the Parkland shooting. “I haven’t changed my position in how many years? I’ve been clear from day one that I’m not going to replace Parkland. I was there.”
Gun rights advocates charged that denying this demographic their full constitutional freedoms was nonsensical, as they can carry a weapon in war and perform virtually any other adult function.
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