Florida legislators, spurred by last month's deadly high school shooting, have passed a raft of new laws to raise the legal age for buying rifles, impose a three-day waiting period on all gun sales and allow the arming of some school employees.
Swift action in the Republican-controlled statehouse, where the National Rifle Association (NRA) has long held sway, was propelled in large part by the extraordinary lobbying efforts of young survivors from the massacre three weeks ago at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland.
It governor Rick Scott signs it, it will be the first successful gun control measure in Florida in more than 20 years.
But the legislation, while containing a number of provisions student activists and their parents from Parkland had embraced, left out one of their chief demands - a ban on assault-style weapons like the one used in the February 14 rampage.
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