Families of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School — where a former student allegedly killed 17 people in February — have banded together to create a political action committee (PAC) to counter the National Rifle Association (NRA) and candidates it backs.
The Families Versus Assault Rifles PAC — or FAMSVARPAC — aims to “remove the NRA from our political system, and then to amend the National Firearms Act of 1934 to include a ban on assault weapons, bump stocks and high-capacity magazines,” according to its website.
Jeff Kasky’s two children were inside the Parkland, Florida, high school the day of the shooting, WPEC-TV reported. One of his kids, Cameron, has become a March for Our Lives activist since the tragedy. But now, Kasky said, it’s the parents’ turn.
“The parents who have been supporting the activist students have been supporting them in any way we can: emotional support, driving them around, giving money for gas and traveling with them,” Kasky told Fox News. “We feel…
