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NRA Sues State of Florida Over New Gun Law

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The National Rifle Association sued in federal court to block a new Florida law, just signed by Gov. Rick Scott, that prohibits gun sales to anyone under 21.

“We filed a lawsuit against the state for violating the constitutional rights of 18- to 21-year-olds,” said Marion Hammer, lobbyist for the NRA in Florida. NRA lawyers in Tallahassee and Washington, D.C., were working on the complaint Friday afternoon, and filed the complaint moments before the court’s deadline.

Hammer had previously called the legislation “political eye-wash.”

The suit was filed just over an hour after Scott signed the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act into law. He expected opposition from the gun lobby.