Parkland dad fights against lowering gun purchase age back to 18

After intense lobbying by Parkland families, then-governor Rick Scott signed a series of bipartisan reforms into law less than a month after the massacre at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in 2018. They included the establishment of extreme risk protection orders and the armed guardian program. The law also raised the legal age to buy a gun from 18 to 21.

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