Reverse Florida's Relic Discriminatory Gun Ban
Gun Owners Still Fighting to Undo Anti-Gun Age Ban in Florida
Citing a circuit split, the NRA has filed a petition for certiorari with the U.S. Supreme Court. The case is National Rifle Association v. Glass, and it’s a seven-year-old battle to correct a law passed in haste by the Florida Legislature, wrongfully depriving hundreds of thousands of young adults of their civil liberties.
Just 24 days after the Parkland murders, Florida Governor (now Senator) Rick Scott signed SB 7026, the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act. The bill was introduced by Republican State Senator Kathleen Passidomo just three days after the shooting and about nine months before the Florida state commission created to investigate the shooting released its preliminary findings.
Among the provisions of the new law was, quite literally, the stripping of the Second Amendment rights of every young adult in the state. The minimum age to purchase a rifle or shotgun went from 18 to 21.
The law was already in effect by December 2018 when the commission released a 400-page report. The report put the blame on the shooter, but was very critical of all the circumstances that allowed the incident.
The Broward County School’s diversion policies, the failure of the FBI to forward multiple tips about the shooter to its Miami field office, and the failures of…