Racist killings in Florida stoke outrage at state’s loose gun laws

White gunman who shot three Black victims legally acquired weapons after Ron DeSantis recently allowed permitless carry

The murder of three African Americans in a racist killing in Jacksonville, Florida, has devastated the community and stoked renewed outrage over the state's increasingly loose gun regulations.

The white gunman who perpetrated the Jacksonville shooting appears to have legally acquired the weapons used in the attack, a Glock handgun and an AR-15-style rifle emblazoned with swastikas. The US attorney general, Merrick Garland, announced on Sunday that the justice department would investigate the attack as a hate crime and an act of racially motivated violent extremism".