TALLAHASSEE, Fla. — In a signal that a top-priority bill of the National Rifle Association faces long odds this year, Senate President Kathleen Passidomo said Wednesday there is little support in the Senate for a House bill that would lower the minimum age to buy rifles and other long guns from 21 to 18.
The bill, which the House started moving this week, would reverse part of a 2018 law that changed age requirements after the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland. The gunman, then 19, used a semi-automatic rifle to carry out the attack.
Passidomo, R-Naples, told reporters that she doesn’t support the proposal — and that many other senators don’t, either.
