
The GOP-led state Legislature enacted Florida’s first gun-control legislation in two decades after the Parkland massacre that claimed the lives of 17 students and staff. Those changes included raising the age to buy a rifle from 18 to 21, making it easier for law enforcement to seize guns from dangerous people, imposing a statewide three-day waiting period for long-gun sales, boosting mental health and school security funding and banning bump stocks, which enable enable semiautomatic weapons to fire more rapidly.