The legislation includes a
number of gun restrictions and also permits school personnel who are not full - time teachers to be armed.
Florida's
embrace of gun restrictions came as Congress remains mired in partisan divisions on the issue and as other states, from Illinois to Vermont, consider whether they ought to tighten the rules on gun ownership in the wake of the Parkland attack.
On Capitol Hill, support appeared to grow for a ban on the bump stock devices, either through regulation or legislation, as Republicans — who for decades have rejected any
form of gun restrictions — began increasingly to speak out.