Do Florida Gun Control Laws Second Ammendment

In the wake of massacres in Parkland, Orlando, Uvalde, Buffalo, Sandy Hook, and on and on, public pressure is building on Congress to enact laws to stem gun violence. Where practice our U.S. Senators and Representatives from Florida stand?

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U.S. Sen. Marco Rubio (R)

"The NBA doesn't like to talk well-nigh the billions they brand from a China that enslaves Uyghur Muslims and harvests their organs. Simply they have no problem politicizing a horrific tragedy in America," (Tweet on Miami Estrus's urging fans to call their senators for gun reform.)

U.Due south. Sen. Rick Scott (R)

"Nosotros will oppose every endeavor to deny our Second Amendment freedoms and will defend our gun rights always, at all costs."

Afterward the Parkland high school massacre, then-Gov. Scott signed laws to enhance the gun buying age limit to 18 and to authorize officials to "ruby-red flag" individuals thought to exist besides dangerous to accept guns. Will he support similar laws at the federal level? No give-and-take.

U.Southward. Rep. Gus One thousand. Bilirakis (R-New Port Richey)

"There is just no prove that encroaching on the rights of law-constant citizens would have any corresponding decrease in violent crime."

Has supported legislation to loosen restrictions on interstate gun purchases and ease conveying of concealed weapons across state borders.

Vern Buchanan (R-Longboat Primal)

Joined with Democrats and a minor grouping of Republicans to support universal groundwork check legislation in 2019.

Kat Cammack (R-Orangish Park)

"I will always uphold and defend our Second Amendment rights. Equally a concealed carry permit holder and the wife to a first responder, I am adamant almost protecting this most basic American correct." "Gun control, she adds, "empowers criminals."

Kathy Castor (D-Tampa)

Helped atomic number 82 colleagues in passing the Bipartisan Background Check Act. Supported the Enhanced Background Checks Act, to close the "Charleston loophole" afterward the South Carolina gunman in 2015 was able to purchase weapons later a three-day federal background check ran out of time to plough up a prior conviction. She is cosponsoring bills to reinstate the ban on military-style assail weapons.

Sheila Cherfilus-McCormick (D-Miramar)

"We need courage. Nosotros demand action. This must change. #EndGunViolence."

Charlie Crist (D-St. Petersburg)

(From Floridapolitics.com) "For one time and for all, require background checks for private gun sales....Nosotros need to ban the sale of assault weapons and loftier chapters magazines for attack rifles and semi-automated pistols. Is in that location any legitimate reason to take a 30-round magazine for recreational shooting or dwelling house defense? There's non."

Val Demings (D-Orlando)

(Onetime Orlando police chief and current candidate for U.S. Senate) Senate should consider groundwork check police and "ruby-red flag" laws.

Theodore "Ted" Deutch (D-Boca Raton)

"The Senate should pass the groundwork check bill. Right at present....And we should laissez passer the EAGLES Act, a bill presented by Parkland parent Tony Montalto and his group Stand with Parkland.... And we should pass the Luke and Alex Schoolhouse Safety Act, a bill presented by Parkland parent Max Schachter and his grouping Safe Schools for Alex....And Jaime'due south Law, presented by Parkland parent Fred Guttenberg in retentiveness of his daughter. It volition make it harder for dangerous people to larn ammunition to deport out these acts."

Mario Diaz Balart (R-Doral)

Supported bipartisan gun prophylactic legislation in 2021 to crave federal government to alarm country and local law enforcement within 24 hours when an ineligible individual lies on a groundwork check and tries to purchase a firearm. Has voted for some background check bills but against others and supported muffle behave legislation.

Byron Donalds (R-Naples)

"The 2d Amendment, your right to bears arms, is just equally important equally the rest of the Bill of Rights....I proudly stood confronting Republican leadership in the Florida Legislature when they infringed upon our rights as Americans and passed gun control into state law." He opposed universal background checks and legislation that would prohibit a firearm transfer between individual parties unless a licensed gun dealer, manufacturer, or importer first takes possession of the firearm to conduct a groundwork check.

Neal Dunn (R-2)

"Instead of strengthening and enforcing existing laws, Speaker Pelosi's Democrats are instead seeking to brand criminals out of police force-abiding gun owners." He says "every police force-constant American has the Ramble correct to keep and behave arms," and notes that the kickoff bill he cosponsored was to ensure Florida concealed carry permits are honored in every other state that issues concealed conduct permits.

Lois Frankel (D-Westward Palm Beach)

"Our children deserve to feel safe at school, not fearfulness for their lives. We must practice more to stop this unthinkable violence. We should also ban ghost guns. And pass blood-red flag laws. And stop the auction of high-capacity magazines."

Scott Franklin (R-Lakeland)

"As a gun owner and defender of the Constitution, I strongly believe in Americans' correct to own firearms. I volition fight for, and defend, your 2d Subpoena rights likewise every bit the unabridged Nib of Rights." He opposed Universal Background Checks Act and the Enhanced Groundwork Checks Deed, saying criminals would benefit from restrictions on law-abiding gun owners.

Matt Gaetz (R-Dist. 1)

"President Biden is committed to dismantling the Second Amendment like we take never seen before." —2021 op-ed in Guns & Ammo. Gaetz opposes 'scarlet flag' gun laws and was quoted by the Insider website as saying whatever Republican who supports red flag laws is a "traitor to the Constitution."

Carlos Gimenez (R-Miami)

Gimenez voted aye on Background Bank check Expansion Human activity and Bipartisan Background Checks Act, which established background check requirements for firearm transfers between individual parties (i.e., unlicensed individuals).

Specifically, it prohibits a firearm transfer between private parties unless a licensed gun dealer, manufacturer, or importer kickoff takes possession of the firearm to conduct a background bank check.

Alfred Lawson (D-5)

"My 0% voter rating with the NRA proves that I am serious about reforming gun laws to protect our families. That is why I opposed Florida's Firearm Preemption Police force and instead support assuasive local officials to tailor gun laws to the needs of their community."

Brian Mast (R-Port St. Lucie)

Opposed Bipartisan Groundwork Checks Act of 2021, saying Democrats radically altered by background legislation he had supported, to restrict access to firearms. "The far-left has attempted to undermine the 2nd Amendment and intimidate law abiding gun owners out of exercising their Constitutional rights.

Stephanie Tater (D-Winter Park)

Led effort to lift the constructive ban on federally sponsored gun violence research in 2018 and later helped secure funding.

Bill Posey (R-Rockledge)

Voted against groundwork checks in 2019 and 2021.

John Rutherford (R-iv)

"The focus should not be on the guns; the focus should exist on the individual that'south pulling the trigger. And nosotros need to observe out who those people are." Supported Curtained Deport Reciprocity Act, to easy conveying of permitted concealed weapons across country lines. Besides supported law to strengthen interstate sharing of relevant criminal record data.

Maria Elvira Salazar (R-Miami)

Voted for Background Check Expansion Human activity and Bipartisan Background Checks Act, which prohibits a firearm transfer between private parties unless a licensed gun dealer, manufacturer, or importer start takes possession of the firearm to conduct a background bank check.

Darren Soto (D-Kissimmee)

Supports universal background checks for all gun purchases, keeping guns from those who are a danger to themselves or others; banning assail weapons, high capacity magazines and bump stocks; creating a "reddish-flag" system to issue gun restraining orders; No Fly, No Buy – banning guns for those on FBI terror sentry list (with judicial review).

Greg Steube (R-Lake Placid)

Steube criticized President Joe Biden's contempo comments urging tighter gun measures. "By banning certain magazines, you are effectively banning handguns that millions of Americans use every twenty-four hours to defend themselves and protect their families," he said."Don't let them fool you lot that they're not attempting to have abroad your ability to purchase handguns. They are using the magazine ban to do it."

Michael Waltz (R-6)

(Start Green Beret to serve in Congress) From Newsmax interview:

"There are really deep societal bug that we accept to address...and there's not some magic solution in Washington, D.C.... We need communities, families, municipalities, nosotros demand people to come together and actually try to figure out what the heck is going on." He supported Florida plan to have armed, mainly retired police and military on school campuses. He voted confronting Bipartisan Background Checks Act. He says 'gun-gratuitous zones' create soft targets for shooters.

Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-Sunrise)

We should outset by closing all the background check loopholes that allow dangerous people to evade the police force and purchase deadly firearms. It requires more than than a gun to accept an innocent life; information technology likewise takes bullets. Nosotros need to do everything nosotros tin to go along both out of the wrong easily. Nosotros must also button to get weapons of war off our streets. That ways banning the sale of assault weapons and firearms with high capacity magazines. Finally, nosotros need to requite the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention the authority and funding to written report the gun violence epidemic as a public health crisis.

Daniel Webster (R-Leesburg)

"I will vigorously oppose any attempt by the Biden Assistants...to subvert the plain language of the law and further infringe on constabulary-abiding American's Constitutional right to keep and bear arms." (In response to Biden executive actions on guns in 2021.) He co-sponsored the No Backdoor Gun Control Act, to prevent curt-barreled rifles and curt-barreled shotguns from facing additional regulation under federal police.

Frederica Due south. Wilson (D-Hollywood)

Voted for the Bipartisan Background Checks Act and the Enhanced Groundwork Checks Human action, which she co-sponsored.

"These commonsense gun violence prevention measures volition require background checks on all gun sales and close the Charleston Loophole that allowed the hate crime at Mother Emanuel AME Church in 2015."

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