Prior to the public hearing, the League of Women Voters of Florida will hold a press conference to demand that the CRC takes action on gun safety. According to a press release from the LWVF, the group is calling on the commissioners to propose a state ban on semiautomatic assault riffles and large-capacity magazines.
“The students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School are counting on us to get this right,” says president of the LWVF Pamela Goodman in a news release. “We urge the Constitution Review Commission to take action by bringing forward a proposal that bans all semiautomatic weapons and large-capacity feeding devices. The CRC is not beholden to any special interest or gun lobby – they should act in the interest of the people, and we demand that they take action on gun safety now.”
Per a 2017 Pew Research Center poll: 68 percent of adults are in favor of banning assault- and military-style weapons, and 65 percent support a ban on high-capacity magazines.
For additional information on the LWVF’s call for gun reform, visit their website.
Today’s CRC public hearing will take place in the Maxwell C King Center at Eastern Florida State College in Melbourne, from 1 p.m. to 7 p.m. All are open to the general public.
More information on the CRC can be found here.
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This article appears in Feb 14-20, 2018.