Anne GeggisJune 29, 2022
7min0
The former state lawmaker will be looking to tighten gun laws beyond the measure Congress recently passed, he says.
Tag: assault rifles
Anne GeggisJune 29, 2022
Noah PranskyAugust 11, 2019
6min254
It may take many more massacres for Congress to change gun laws.
Scott PowersFebruary 23, 2018
4min292
Democratic U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson said the guns and schools proposal announced Friday by Republican Gov. Rick Scott has some things he supports but called Scott’s plan inadequate and said that the governor was not listening to what Floridians really want following the latest mass shooting: universal background checks and a ban on assault weapons. […]
Scott PowersFebruary 22, 2018
9min364
If the crowd at Wednesday night’s gun discussion at the BB&T Center in Sunrise was indicative of more than just a normally Democratic community now suffering from one of the most horrific school massacres in history, then Republicans such as U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio and staunch 2nd Amendment advocates can find little place there. In […]
Scott PowersJuly 20, 2016
4min580
Democrat Bob Poe is releasing his first television commercial in the Orlando-based Florida’s 10th Congressional District with a declaration of outrage over assault rifles and a promise to seek to ban them and to require universal background checks for gun purchases. Poe, an Orlando businessman and former chairman of the Florida Democratic Party, is pushing the […]
Larry GriffinJuly 8, 2016
6min191
It may have been a small group rallying outside City Hall Thursday to ban assault weapons, an event hosted by new local activist group Ban Them. But they were not silent. And they’re not going away. Rather, their voices filled the plaza, chanting “Ban Them!” to passing traffic. Theirs was a bold statement: they won’t […]
Brendan FarringtonJune 14, 2016
5min632
As in mass shootings elsewhere, the massacre of 49 people at an Orlando nightclub is raising questions about access to guns — assault rifles, in particular. In Florida, buying one is no problem as long as you’re 18, a legal resident of the United States, aren’t a felon or a domestic abuser and have no documented […]
Jim RosicaJune 13, 2016
2min210
Hillary Clinton on Monday said the Orlando nightclub massacre called for “statesmanship, not partisanship.” The presumptive Democratic presidential nominee spoke on MSNBC’s “Morning Joe” program. “This is a moment for Republicans, Democrats and Independents to work together as one team,” she said, according to a rush transcript. “The American team.” “I think that our fellow American […]