Defying N.R.A., Florida Lawmakers Back Raising Age Limits on Assault Rifles<br />I think you need to have individuals who are trained, well trained.”<br />Mr. Scott, House Speaker Richard Corcoran and Senate President Joe Negron said they would<br />also push to ban “bump stocks,” which enable semiautomatic rifles to fire faster.<br />Rick Scott and top state lawmakers proposed on Friday the most significant move toward gun control in Florida in decades, backing new limits<br />that defy the National Rifle Association but fall short of demands from survivors of last week’s school shooting.<br />“I want to make it virtually impossible for anyone who has mental issues to use a gun,” said<br />Mr. Scott, who is widely expected to run for a United States Senate seat this year.<br />“Legislative proposals that prevent law-abiding adults aged 18-20 years old from acquiring rifles<br />and shotguns effectively prohibits them from purchasing any firearm, thus depriving them of their constitutional right to self-protection,” Jennifer Baker, an N. R.A.<br />spokeswoman, said in a statement on Thursday.<br />member, I’m a supporter of the Second Amendment, and the First Amendment, and the entire Bill of Rights for that matter,” Mr. Scott said on Friday.<br />Sofie Whitney, 18, who survived last week’s shooting in Parkland, Fla.,<br />and traveled to Tallahassee to lobby lawmakers for stricter gun laws, watched Mr. Scott’s news conference and started texting other survivors as it ended.
