Guns

The law bars people under age 21 from buying rifles and other long guns. Florida lawmakers and then-Gov. Rick Scott included the restriction in a school safety measure passed shortly after the Parkland shooting.

While the specifics of the Florida and Pennsylvania laws differ, both cases involve Second Amendment challenges to gun restrictions for people ages 18 to 20. Both also focus heavily on how to interpret Supreme Court precedents and the “historical tradition” of gun regulation.

It urged a U.S. district judge to toss out the lawsuit, which challenges a new federal rule that requires more gun sellers to be licensed and run background checks on buyers, disputing state arguments about lost tax revenue from gun shows.

Six months after the Feb. 14 Kansas City parade, parents their children are deeply changed. We meet kids who survived the mass shooting only to live with long-term emotional scars.

Florida this week revamped a lawsuit that challenges a new federal rule requiring more gun sellers to be licensed and run background checks on buyers, in part pointing to lower attendance at gun shows.

A U.S. Supreme Court decision Friday upholding a ban on gun possession by people under domestic-violence restraining orders will refuel a legal battle about a Florida law that prevents people under age 21 from buying rifles and shotguns.

The social-media ruling likely will decide whether Florida can carry out a 2021 state law that placed restrictions on platforms such as Facebook and X. The gun ruling in a Texas case could help determine the fate of a 2018 Florida law that barred people under age 21 from buying rifles and shotguns.

Florida Attorney General Ashley Moody on Wednesday filed a federal lawsuit challenging a new Biden administration rule that will require more gun sellers to be licensed and run background checks on buyers.

Experts say more robust data is necessary to better determine the link between gun storage and school shootings. But a few studies have shown that around half of these incidents are carried out with firearms that were considered unsecured.

The law takes effect on July 1.

When Florida lawmakers went home after ending the 2024 legislative session Friday, they left behind hundreds of bills that did not pass.

In 2023, the Transportation Security Administration reported seizing 6,737 firearms at airport checkpoints, the most in the agency’s 23-year history.