Jeff Kasky is the father of Cameron Kasky, one of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who became the face of a new youth gun-control movement after facing off with Sen. Marco Rubio. | Michael Laughlin/South Florida Sun-Sentinel via AP
The father of a Florida school shooting survivor who called out Sen. Marco Rubio[1] for receiving National Rifle Association money is launching a super PAC that plans to target NRA-backed federal candidates and wants to change the law to severely restrict the purchase and possession of many semiautomatic rifles.
“We need to get the NRA out of our politics. It has made itself a political party. And that needs to end,” said Jeff Kasky, a South Florida attorney and father of Cameron Kasky, one of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School students who became the face of a new youth gun-control movement after facing off with Rubio (R-Fla.) at a nationally televised town hall.
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“We are very single-minded. We’re very laser focused on this,” Jeff Kasky said in an interview. “The purpose of this act is one-fold: to pass one small paragraph or amendment to the National Firearms Act of 1934.” He said it would essentially ban the sale of “military-style assault weapons” and put new restrictions on their purchase.
The specific language of the proposal has yet to be drafted by Kasky’s Families vs. Assault Rifles PAC, which was just formed. The PAC’s executive director, Matt Gohd, said the proposal might have to ban the sale
