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A South Florida gun owner said he wanted to lead by example in turning in his AR-57 shortly after a gunman used a similar weapon to kill 17 people at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. In a Facebook post, Ben Dickmann proclaimed that he was a responsible, highly-trained gun owner, but that no one without a law enforcement badge needs this rifle so he had surrendered [it] to the Broward Sheriff: Dickmann also expressed some dismay over Florida's current gun ownership laws, asserting that the concealed weapons permit program here in the state of Florida, as far as I'm concerned, is a joke because Literally, it's three hours of PowerPoint, and then you go down to the range with a very, very low caliber handgun, and you have to put five out of 10 rounds on a paper plate at 5 feet. Probably half the class that I had are people that had never touched a gun before in their life. The Broward Sheriff's Office tweeted their thanks for Dickmann's Facebook post and offered information to others looking to dispose of their firearms:
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