GAINESVILLE – Florida’s House Judiciary Committee voted Tuesday to pass for a full floor vote a bill that would lower the age to 18 to purchase firearms, including assault-style rifles. The move would reverse a state law changed after an infamous high school mass shooting in South Florida.

The committee – the final stop before a vote by the full House – voted 13-7 largely along party lines to lower the age for gun buyers. Rep. Hillary Cassel of Hollywood, whose legislative district is only a few miles from the 2018 school shooting in Broward County and who recently changed her party registration from Democrat to Republican, voted with Democrats against the bill.

The effort’s final prospects are unclear. Even if it were to pass in the House, there is no Senate version that has been introd

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