Florida Senate President Kathleen Passidomo opposes lowering the age to buy guns

TALLAHASSEE, Florida. Senate President Kathleen Passidomo, D-Naples, said Wednesday she does not support lowering the age limit for buying rifles and other long guns in Florida.

“We don’t have him in the Senate,” Passidomo said. told reporters. “No one submitted.”

A bill introduced in the House of Representatives earlier this month aims to lower the minimum age a person can purchase a gun from 21 to 18.

Federal law already sets the age limit of 21 for handguns.

HB 1543 repeal part of a 2018 law that raised the minimum age after a gunman killed 17 people at Marjorie Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.

The Republican-controlled House Criminal Justice Subcommittee voted 12 to 5 on Monday to move the bill forward.

But Passidomo made it clear that there was “no bill to support” in the Senate.

“No one told me about it,” she said. “No one told me about it in the Senate.”