Two Florida Democrats introduced legislation to track suspicious gun and ammunition purchases on Wednesday, the sixth anniversary of the mass shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., that left 14 students and three staff members dead.
Rep. Jared Moskowitz (D-Fla.), who represents Parkland, unveiled the legislation along with Rep. Maxwell Frost (D-Fla.), who represents Orlando, where the 2016 Pulse nightclub shooting happened. Other lawmakers joined the two at a press conference to honor the victims of the 2018 shooting.
The Identify Gun Stores Act “is simple,” Frost said. It would allow credit card companies to create new merchant category codes to better identify sellers of guns and ammunition. The measure then would allow credit card companies to detect suspicious sales and flag the activity.
Frost said such a measure could have allowed the internet searches and credit card purchases of the Parkland shooter to be flagged.
It’s unlikely to go anywhere in the GOP-controlled House.