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BREAKING: Florida House passes gun control bill
Orlando Sentinel ^ | 7 March 2018 | Gray Rohrer

Posted on 03/07/2018 3:46:43 PM PST by Yo-Yo

TALLAHASSEE — The Florida House on Wednesday gave final approval to a bill that restricts gun sales and sets up a program to arm some teachers and other school employees. The bill is a response to the Feb. 14 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School that left 17 students and faculty dead. The final vote was 67-50. It came after an all-day debate on the measure. Democrats favored the gun control provisions in the bill – a ban on bump stocks, an increase in the minimum age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21 and a three-day waiting period for all gun sales – but object to the “guardian” program that would arm some teachers and other school staff.

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TOPICS: Breaking News; Crime/Corruption; Government; US: Florida
KEYWORDS: banglist; guncontrol; secondamendment
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Appalling.
1 posted on 03/07/2018 3:46:43 PM PST by Yo-Yo
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2 posted on 03/07/2018 3:49:10 PM PST by KC_Lion (If you want on First Lady Melania's, Ivanka Trump's or Sarah Palin's Ping Lists, just let me know.)
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Effin bullshiite. My reps heard from me all week. Didn’t seem to do any good.


3 posted on 03/07/2018 3:49:45 PM PST by Basket_of_Deplorables (SEDITION! Obama DOJ colluded to try overthrow the President!)
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To: Yo-Yo

I hope this makes it to the Supreme Court. Tell a 20 year old who just got back from a year in Afghanistan that they are too young to own a gun is sickening.


4 posted on 03/07/2018 3:49:52 PM PST by TonyM (UPS)
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To: Yo-Yo

Will get blocked or in the Senate who already rejected something like it.


5 posted on 03/07/2018 3:50:06 PM PST by DarthVader ("The biggeest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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Stripping 2nd amendment rights from 18 to 20 year olds and forcing a waiting period to take possession of property that you own after having paid the merchant and filled out the forms.
6 posted on 03/07/2018 3:50:33 PM PST by Myrddin
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SHOULD be unconstitutional.l


7 posted on 03/07/2018 3:51:41 PM PST by ZULU (Success is not final, failure is not fatal: it is the courage to continue that counts. - WC)
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To: Myrddin

Heck, they didn’t lower the voting age to 18 from 21 until the 26th Amendment in 1971. Before then a guy couldn’t vote but could be drafted.


8 posted on 03/07/2018 3:53:16 PM PST by CodeToad (Dr. Spock was an idiot!)
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To: Yo-Yo

And if with every shooting we whittle it down further, how long before there are no gun rights at all?


9 posted on 03/07/2018 3:54:09 PM PST by Cubs Fan (Trump is all that stands between America and left wing totalitarianism)
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And yet there are those on this board that support this statist shit.


10 posted on 03/07/2018 3:54:29 PM PST by mrmeyer (You can't conquer a free man; the most you can do is kill him. Robert Heinlein)
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Now it falls to Gov. Scott to stop this nonsense.


11 posted on 03/07/2018 3:54:39 PM PST by MeganC (There is nothing feminine about feminism.)
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Liberals are idiots. You only get one chance to fight your government. Floriduh just lost unless the Governor stops this.


12 posted on 03/07/2018 3:55:55 PM PST by Delta 21 (Build The Wall !! Jail The Cankle !!)
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No rights under the constitution then no military service. Do males still have to register for the draft? If I can’t own a gun then I can’t register.


13 posted on 03/07/2018 3:56:09 PM PST by wgmalabama (The government murdered Robert LaVoy Finicum - what makes you think you are not next?)
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When did testicles become optional for male members of the FL House?


14 posted on 03/07/2018 3:56:11 PM PST by bigbob (Trust Trump. Trust Sessions. The Great Awakening is at hand...MAGA!)
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Has to go to the Senate next who rescinded their own bill.


15 posted on 03/07/2018 3:56:19 PM PST by DarthVader ("The biggeest misconception on Free Republic is that the Deep State is invulnerable")
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The Democrats sent in armored vehicles at Waco and burned children to death to make a political point.

No gun control.

Never.


16 posted on 03/07/2018 3:56:19 PM PST by blueunicorn6 ("A crack shot and a good dancer")
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So...details. What language did they use to outlaw bump-stocks?


17 posted on 03/07/2018 3:56:24 PM PST by lepton ("It is useless to attempt to reason a man out of a thing he was never reasoned into"--Jonathan Swift)
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There may be an exception to the law for 18-20 years olds who are currently serving in the Armed Forces, active or reserve/national guard, to continue to be able to purchase rifles and some other exceptions.

It may have been put in the bill but NOT included in this story. The Florida Governor has said he would support that exception to any new law banning those under 21 from buying a rifle.


18 posted on 03/07/2018 3:56:35 PM PST by dsm69 (Boycott News Media/Hollywood Advertiwsers)
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You know, in a way I kind of like this..

PUNISHING YOUNG PEOPLE by denying them firearms until they're long out of high school.

Kinda funny, actually, but this is indeed a SLIPPERY SLOPE to all-out gun confiscation. THAT is the progressives' goal.

19 posted on 03/07/2018 3:57:23 PM PST by CivilWarBrewing (Get off my back for my usage of CAPS, especially you snowflake males! MAN UP!)
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Psycho who local law enforcement knew would kill, kills, and legislature restricts the rights of the population in response. Disgraceful.


20 posted on 03/07/2018 3:57:59 PM PST by Trumpisourlastchance
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