Legislation to restore Second Amendment rights for Florida’s young adults ran into an unexpected roadblock last week.
State lawmakers who support the right to keep and bear arms are busy rolling back knee-jerk gun control laws passed in the aftermath of a tragic 2018 school shooting. Part of that process was to restore the ability of 18-to 20-year-olds to purchase and possess rifles and shotguns.
2A groups quickly protested the bill’s Senate demise
That overdue push is now on hold thanks to anti-gun state Senator Kathleen Passidomo (D). She chairs the Florida Senate Rules Committee and wielded her power to block House Bill 133, despite the bill sailing through the lower chamber with a supermajority vote six weeks earlier.
Gun rights organization Florida Carry informed its membership of the inexcusable holdup. The bill languished in committee since mid-January.
“It’s been stonewalled ever since,” the group declared. “Senator Passidomo is obviously unconcerned that 18-to-20-year-olds should enjoy the same fundamental enumerated right, guaranteed by the Second Amendment to the Constitution, that all other adults enjoy.”
This is hardly the first time the Senate has rejected the will of the people
Florida Gun Rights posted this announcement on social media: “Senate leadership is refusing to touch the Military Aged Purchase ban repeal. This is completely unacceptable. This has passed the House four years now. The 2nd Amendment is being treated as a second-class right here in Florida.”
Florida lawmakers passed the controversial Marjory Stoneman Douglass High School Public Safety Act in 2018 after the Parkland massacre. In a misguided reaction, some gun rights supporters bent the knee and agreed to moves they would soon regret.
Such as stripping gun rights from young adults.
This is hardly the first attempt to right this wrong. In fact, the Florida House has passed nearly identical measures for four straight years and sent them to the Senate.
Each time, the bills died in the upper chamber.
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