{"id":107227,"date":"2026-01-06T04:45:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107227\/"},"modified":"2026-01-06T04:45:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-06T04:45:11","slug":"florida-gop-lawmaker-moves-to-repeal-bump-stock-ban-enacted-after-parkland-shooting","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/107227\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida GOP lawmaker moves to repeal bump stock ban enacted after Parkland shooting"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A House Republican on Monday proposed repealing a ban on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/bump-stocks\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">&#8220;bump stocks&#8221;<\/a> that passed after the 2018 massacre at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cbsnews.com\/miami\/tag\/parkland-school-shooting\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" data-invalid-url-rewritten-http=\"\">Parkland&#8217;s Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School.\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Rep. Toby Overdorf, R-Palm City, filed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.flsenate.gov\/Session\/Bill\/2026\/6021\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">proposal (HB 6021)<\/a> for consideration during the legislative session that will start Jan. 13. Bump stocks are devices that make semiautomatic guns mimic fully automatic firearms.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>      <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/cbsn-fusion-florida-gun-advocates-push-to-repeal-law-passed-after-parkland-school-shooting-thumbnail.jpeg\" alt=\"cbsn-fusion-florida-gun-advocates-push-to-repeal-law-passed-after-parkland-school-shooting-thumbnail.jpg \" height=\"349\" width=\"620\" class=\" lazyload\"  loading=\"lazy\"\/><\/p>\n<p>                  A House Republican on Monday proposed repealing a ban on\u00a0&#8220;bump stocks&#8221; that passed after the Parkland shooting.<\/p>\n<p>                CBS News Miami<\/p>\n<p>Similar repeal bills were proposed in 2022 and 2025, but did not pass. The ban was approved in 2018 as part of a law that also raised the minimum age to purchase rifles and other long guns from 18 to 21.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>A bump stock wasn&#8217;t involved in the Parkland shooting, where 19-year-old Nikolas Cruz used a semiautomatic rifle to kill 17 people.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>But rifles outfitted with bump stocks were involved in other mass shootings, most notably a 2017 shooting in Las Vegas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In 2024, the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a U.S. Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives rule enacted after the Las Vegas shooting that defined a semiautomatic rifle equipped with a bump stock attachment as a machine gun.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The court found the rule exceeded the bureau&#8217;s authority.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A House Republican on Monday proposed repealing a ban on &#8220;bump stocks&#8221; that passed after the 2018 massacre&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[55002,28,30,29,20385,1766],"class_list":["post-107227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-bump-stocks","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-gun-control","tag-parkland-school-shooting"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107227","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}