SCHOOL SAFETY LAW

Florida Governor Rick Scott has signed into law a sweeping school safety package. One provision in the law raises the age from 18 to 21 to purchase rifles and other long guns and imposes a three-day waiting period. The age and waiting-period requirements already apply to buying handguns, but the NRA immediately filed a lawsuit against the law contending the new restrictions on rifles are unconstitutional. The new law also bans the sale or possession of “bump stocks,” which allow semi-automatic rifles to mimic fully automatic weapons and gives law enforcement officials the ability to seek court orders to seize weapons from people who pose a danger to themselves or others.