The National Rifle Association (NRA) is suing Florida after it passed a gun control law in the wake of a school shooting that left 17 people dead.
Governor Rick Scott, a staunch ally of the gun lobby, enacted the bill, which the NRA says violates the constitution.
The law raises the legal age for buying rifles in Florida, but also allows the training and arming of school staff.
It does not ban semi-automatic rifles like the one used in the 14 February massacre in Parkland.
But it does introduce a three-day waiting period on all gun sales and a ban on bump stocks, a device that enables semi-automatic rifles to fire hundreds of rounds a minute.
The NRA filed its lawsuit on Friday just an hour after the bill was signed by the governor.
One of its arguments is that the legislation violates the rights of young women as they are unlikely to commit violent crime.
Oh yeah, it's all about protecting young women. THAT sounds like something the NRA is well known for giving a shit about.
By the way, whatever happened to all that "state's rights" rhetoric that the conservatives are famous for?
Not when it interferes with gun sales dammit!
It's not going to make a difference however.
As the great Joy Reid pointed out in her recent Daily Beast article, the NRA is losing.
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