HB759 would reduce the minimum-age requirement to buy, sell, or transfer a firearm from 21 to 18.
The House passed HB759 on March 26, 2025, by a vote of 78 to 34. We have assigned pluses to the yeas because this bill would repeal the state’s unconstitutional minimum-age requirement that denies to adult citizens younger than 21 years of age—who are both eligible to vote and enlist in the military—their right to purchase a firearm. Florida’s law is not only more intrusive than current federal law, but contradicts the Militia Act of 1792, which called for each able-bodied male citizen of “the age of 18 years” to “provide himself with a good musket,” “firelock” or “rifle.” America’s ability to “provide for the common defense” extends from the natural, individual right to self-defense, which is why the U.S. Constitution’s Second Amendment expressly declares that a “well regulated Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Arms, shall not be infringed.”
