The Florida Home Judiciary Committee on Tuesday bolstered a proposal that mixes permitting individuals to hold hid firearms with out licenses and efforts to enhance faculty security, regardless of Democratic arguments that easing gun restrictions would enhance violence.
A Senate committee on Monday handed an analogous measure.
The Home committee voted 16-7 to go HB 543, which allows the carry of hid weapons circumventing state licensure, background screening and coaching. The invoice additionally gives funding for better faculty security measures.