Florida House targets gun age law
Florida House Republicans back a proposal that would repeal part of a law that prevents people under the age of 21 from buying rifles and shotguns.
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Florida House Republicans back a proposal that would repeal part of a law that prevents people under the age of 21 from buying rifles and shotguns.
As the new legislative session begins Tuesday, CBS News Miami is keeping an eye on a few proposals including those involving property insurance, waste management, environmental protections and more.
A newly introduced bill would lower the minimum age to purchase a gun from 21 to 18, reversing a measure passed in response to the Parkland shooting.
The NRA is challenging a Florida measure that bars people under age 21 from buying rifles and shotguns.
While many in the U.S. have lambasted the flow of migrants and drugs from Mexico, the porous border works both ways. Mexico's government says guns from the U.S. are fueling cartel violence.
In 2018, lawmakers raised the minimum age to buy rifles to 21 after the Parkland shooting.
Senate President Ben Albritton has expressed opposition to the idea.
The issue is a Florida law that bars people under age 21 from buying rifles and other long guns.
A Florida lawsuit is challenging a new federal rule that requires more gun sellers to be licensed and run background checks on buyers.
Lawyers for the state raised the gun-show issue because they said the rule is reducing tax revenue from purchases of admission tickets.
Democratic vice presidential nominee Tim Walz once had an "A" rating from the NRA. Now, he has an "F." Here's what he's said about his views on gun laws.
The federal lawsuit challenges the constitutionality of a Florida law that bars people from openly carrying firearms.
Florida officials say the new rule will lead to a "surge" in background check requests.
The ammo vending machines have been placed in grocery stores in three states as the U.S. battles what the surgeon general calls a public health crisis of gun violence.
With the guilty verdict in the federal gun trial, Hunter Biden became the first child of a president to be convicted.
The Biden administration announced last month that it had finalized the rule, which it said is designed to close "loopholes" in a system that requires licensed gun dealers to run background checks.
The Biden administration is finalizing plans to expand background check requirements in effort to close the "gun show loophole."
For the second year in a row, the Florida Senate appears poised to reject a proposal that would lower the minimum age from 21 to 18 to purchase rifles and shotguns in the state.
The comments came two days after the House Criminal Justice Subcommittee approved a bill that would reverse an age requirement included in a school safety law that passed after the 2018 massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.
Its future remains in doubt as the proposal has not been filed in the Senate.
Future of the bill is in doubt as the proposal has not been filed in the Senate.
The National Rifle Association's longtime leader will step down on the eve of a legal showdown with New York's attorney general over allegations of corruption.
If passed, it would reverse part of a law that passed in the aftermath of the 2018 mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
State lawyers pointed to longstanding prohibitions on the possession of firearms by felons do not infringe the Second Amendment
The case before the Supreme Court, United States v. Rahimi, puts a 30-year-old federal gun law designed to protect survivors of domestic violence in the spotlight.
