Rep. Carlos Curbelo Carlos Luis CurbeloGOP wants more vision, policy from Trump at convention Mucarsel-Powell, Giménez to battle for Florida swing district The Memo: GOP cringes at new Trump race controversy MORE (R-Fla.) is calling on Speaker Paul Ryan Paul Davis RyanKenosha will be a good bellwether in 2020 At indoor rally, Pence says election runs through Wisconsin Juan Williams: Breaking down the debates MORE (R-Wis.) to allow the chamber to immediately consider gun safety legislation, citing President Trump Donald John TrumpUS reimposes UN sanctions on Iran amid increasing tensions Jeff Flake: Republicans 'should hold the same position' on SCOTUS vacancy as 2016 Trump supporters chant 'Fill that seat' at North Carolina rally MORE's professed support for such measures.

Curbelo tweeted that Ryan "should immediately allow the House to consider common sense gun safety proposals" that the Florida Republican has advocated, including raising the purchasing age of long guns to 21 and banning bump stocks, among other items.

W/ @POTUS support, @SpeakerRyan should immediately allow the House to consider common sense gun safety proposals @RepCurbelo has been calling for – strengthening NICS, including mental health in background checks, raising purchasing age of long guns to 21, banning bump stocks -TC https://t.co/6fgqLg70D8 — Rep. Carlos Curbelo (@RepCurbelo) February 23, 2018

Curbelo's plea came just over a week after a deadly shooting at a high school in Parkland, Fla., left 17 people dead and more than a dozen others wounded. The attack reignited an intense national debate over gun control laws and put pressure on politicians to act.

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In an interview with ABC's "This Week" on Sunday, Curbelo called for the House to hold debates on "reasonable, common-sense gun safety laws" that "protect rights for responsible citizens, people who are responsible gun owners, but will prevent those who want to do harm to innocent people from obtaining these weapons."

Curbelo introduced a bill last fall aimed at banning "bump stocks" – devices used to modify semi-automatic firearms to shoot more rapidly. That proposal came after a gunman used such a device to carry out a deadly attack on a Las Vegas music festival.

President Trump signaled a willingness this week to back new gun measures. He announced Tuesday that he had directed the Justice Department to propose regulations banning bump stocks and said Thursday that he "will be strongly pushing Comprehensive Background Checks with an emphasis on Mental Health."

He also called to raise the age for purchasing guns to 21. Under federal law, the minimum age to purchase long guns including rifles like AR-15s and shotguns from a licensed dealer is 18, but there's no minimum age when purchasing from an unlicensed dealer.