<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">''<h3 class="m_5466051944093825078gmail-r" style="font-size: 18px; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; overflow: hidden; text-overflow: ellipsis; white-space: nowrap;"><br />''</h3></div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In the United States, state of Florida has passed a bill raising the minimum age to buy firearms to 21. The act called &quot;Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Act&quot;&nbsp; passed the legislature's lower house on Tuesday after clearing by the Senate on Monday.&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"><br />''</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">The bill raises the minimum age to purchase all firearms from 18 to 21 and bans modification devices that make a semi-automatic weapon fully automatic and increases mental health funding. It also includes a voluntary guardian programme allowing some teachers and school employees to be armed. The Bill will now be sent to Governor to sign.</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">&nbsp;</div>''<div style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;">In last two years, Florida has seen three mass shootings, in which 49 were killed in an Orlando nightclub in 2016, five at Fort Lauderdale's international airport in 2017, and 17 including 14 students in a High School in Parkland recently.&nbsp;</div>''<div class="yj6qo" style="color: #222222; font-family: arial, sans-serif; font-size: 12.8px;"></div>