A bill seeking to repeal portions of post-Parkland legislation and lower the minimum age to buy a gun from 21 to 18 is heading to the House floor.

The House Judiciary Committee voted 13-7 to advance HB 133 , which would change the 2018 law raising the minimum wage to 21. The Legislature passed the measure after the Parkland school shooting, when a 19-year-old former student killed 17 students and staff with an AR-15 semiautomatic weapon on Valentine’s Day 2018.

But as Florida has shifted even further rightward and Republicans who backed the 2018 law have hit term limits and exited the Legislature, there has been movement from some current GOP lawmakers to revisit those 2018 restrictions.

“I wasn’t a member of the Legislature when that tragedy occurred. My view is this is the cor

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