Sen. Marco Rubio (R-Fla.) remains a supporter of Second Amendment rights but is “open to measures that would keep guns out of the hands of criminals and the mentally ill,” his spokesman told the Tampa Bay Times on Monday.
Rubio, who has a B+ rating from the NRA and an A rating from the Gun Owners of America, “supports a serious and comprehensive study of our laws to find new and better ways to prevent any more mass shootings,” his spokesman said.
Florida’s other senator, Democrat Bill Nelson, has voted to ban assault weapons in the past.
Two Democratic senators with high rankings from the gun lobby said Mondayin the wake of the Sandy Hook school shooting that they would support more regulation of assault weapons.
CONTINUED at the Washington Post.
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