Florida House Passes Bill Lowering Age To Purchase Firearm

Here’s something you don’t see everyday.

While liberals are trying to create more gun laws, screaming “gun control”, we have Republicans who are helping citizens embrace their 2nd Amendment right.

The Florida House of Representatives passed a bill that lowered the age to purchase a firearm from 21 to 18, which would reverse  part of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act from 2018.

Democrats sure love throwing that word ‘safety’ around when they’re trying to take our guns away, don’t they?

If this legislation is passed, it would go into effect July

Bill to lower gun buying age passes in Florida House https://t.co/L9rXv53JPI

— FOX 13 Tampa Bay (@FOX13News) March 2, 2024

The Washington Examiner reports:

The Florida House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that would lower the minimum age to purchase a firearm from 21 to 18.

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The bill, which was introduced by Republican state Reps. Bobby Payne and Tyler Sirois, passed by a 76-35 margin and will move to the Florida Senate, in which the GOP occupies 28 of the 40 seats.

In addition to lowering the minimum age to buy firearms, the bill would overturn part of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, which was passed in the wake of the 2018 shooting that left 17 people dead and 17 more injured.

“The prohibitions of this subsection,” being the sale or transfer of firearms to minors, “do not apply to the purchase of a rifle or shotgun by a law enforcement officer or correctional officer … or servicemember,” was stricken from the 2018 legislation in the bill the House passed Friday.

So, naturally, Democrats are furious about this.

‘Only police should have guns to protect you!’ they believe.

Remember they also wanted to defund the police.  So much logic from this group.

Unbelievable!!! The Florida House of Representatives just voted to gut the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Act – bipartisan common sense gun sense legislation. Shame! Broken promises! #brokenpromises #commonsensegunlegislation @MomsDemand @GIFFORDS_org pic.twitter.com/ea4kFpr0NC

— Robin Bartleman (@Robin_Bartleman) March 1, 2024

MSN adds:

The Republican-controlled Florida House of Representatives passed a bill Friday that would lower the minimum age to buy a firearm from 21 to 18.

HB 1223, titled “Minimum Age for Firearm Purchase or Transfer,” was passed in a 76-35 vote. The legislation, which was initially sponsored by Republican Representatives Bobby Payne and Tyler Sirois, will now move to the state Senate for further consideration.

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“An act relating to minimum age for firearm purchase or transfer; amending s. 790.065, F.S.; reducing the minimum age at which a person may purchase a firearm and the age of purchasers to which specified licensees are prohibited from selling or transferring a firearm; 6 repealing an exception; providing an effective date,” the bill text reads.

If the legislation is passed, it would go into effect on July 1.

The bill would also overturn part of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act, passed in 2018 following the deadly school shooting in Parkland, Florida, that left 17 dead and another 17 injured. Former student Nikolas Cruz stalked three floors of the classroom building with an assault rifle in one of the deadliest school shootings in U.S. history.

It was only last year that the State of Florida also relaxed their carry laws, by allowing a permitless carry law.

Florida is sounding better by the day.

Here’s a clip to refresh your memory about that law.

(Also, like how they use an image of someone pointing the gun at us, the viewer, to instill subconscious fear or uneasiness? Everything the media does is to manipulate us.)