After visits to Parkland left them horrified at the ease with which a gunman could kill 17 people in six minutes, Florida legislators in both the House and Senate are doing something they have resisted for years: drafting legislation to limit access to semi-automatic rifles. “We owe it to victims of families on what I now consider the absolute most important issue of the session,” said Sen. Bill Galvano, the Bradenton Republican who will become the next Senate president and who has taken the lead in putting together a wide-ranging Senate proposal.
