Three weeks after 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz shot and killed 17 people at his Parkland high school, then-Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill designed to make sure a similar shooting would never happen again.
After the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, in 2018, Florida’s very conservative lawmakers and then-Gov. Rick Scott passed gun safety laws that raised the age to buy firearms, instituted red flag laws and background checks.
Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis signaled that he wants to repeal the state's red flag law, which was approved after the Feb. 2018 mass shooting in Parkland.
In Gov. Ron DeSantis’ State of the State address on Tuesday, he made it clear that he wants to do away with Florida’s red flag law.
After 17 students and teachers were massacred in one of the nation’s deadliest school shootings, their families begged Florida lawmakers for change. Legislators, some of whom had walked through bloody halls at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland,
Gov. Ron DeSantis is calling for a “ repeal ” of “ red flag ” laws that stop people from buying guns if a court says they’re too dangerous to own them.
Three weeks after a 19-year-old shot and killed 17 people at his Parkland high school, then-Gov. Rick Scott signed a bill designed to make sure a similar shooting would never happen again. Now, Gov. Ron DeSantis wants to repeal some provisions in the legislation, he said during his State of the State speech Tuesday.
Gov. Ron DeSantis indicated this week he wants lawmakers to review the state's red flag law and possibly repeal it, saying it can infringe on the rights of gun owners.
DeSantis said he wants the state’s new DOGE task force to find 70 state boards and commissions to abolish and about 900 positions to delete.
Donalds is making public overtures toward Gov. Ron DeSantis, with whom he acknowledged he has had a falling out.
Gov. Ron DeSantis is pushing to roll back key provisions of Florida’s gun laws, including reversing red flag laws and lowering the minimum age to purchase a long gun from 21 to 18.