The Florida House's vote came as hundreds of students from Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School arrived in Tallahassee after traveling hundreds of miles by bus to pressure lawmakers to pass stricter gun control measures, including a ban on assault rifles. Florida students turn up heat on lawmakers for gun action

Student survivors of the Florida school shooting that saw 17 people killed in a hail of bullets last week descended on the state capital Wednesday to ramp up the pressure on lawmakers to enact tougher gun control measures.
Families and students from Parkland, Florida, begin arriving in Tallahassee, the Florida State Capitol, for advocacy meetings with lawmakers and other State officials. During Tuesday's legislative session, the Republican-controlled Florida House defeated, by a party-line vote, a motion to debate assault weapons ban legislation, 71-36.