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Seeking To Make Schools Safer, Florida Legislators Take Up Gun Measures

State lawmakers are tackling bills that, if passed, would impose age limits on gun sales, implement a waiting period and allow authorities to confiscate weapons.

House and Senate Republican lawmakers in Florida unveiled a package of sweeping gun control proposals on Monday, which they hope to pass before a legislative recess in two weeks.

The measures are aimed at making schools safer for children but present a challenge to the National Rifle Association's grip on the state's Republican leaders,.

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