Article snippet: Florida Rep. Brian Mast was enjoying a peaceful day at the pool with his kids last week, legally carrying his concealed pistol, when a scary thought struck him. "I'm looking at all the balconies and thinking of [the massacre] in Las Vegas. I was sitting there with my conceal carry 9mm Glock, and thinking that I would be a sitting duck, and my children would be sitting ducks, for anybody that was sitting up on one of those balconies, and had barricaded themselves in a room, and were ready to go out there, and induce that kind of carnage," he told ABC News' "Powerhouse Politics" podcast. That vulnerable moment triggered him to ask President Donald Trump to push the pause button on certain gun sales, Mast said. "Let’s pause on selling these weapons that have been used in these incidents, just like the travel ban," he said. "We’re going to pause 30, 60, 90 days and let’s see who has access. Let’s present some solutions." Mast explained to hosts Jonathan Karl and Rick Klein, he wants to take Trump's model of a travel ban and layer it on a policy of pausing sales of assault rifles until a fail-safe system is put in place to prevent a mass shooter from striking again. Seventeen people were killed on Valentine's Day when suspect Nikolas Cruz opened fire at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida. Already, Mast, who has only been in Congress for a year, is feeling the heat from his proposed pause, but said that surprisingly, he's no... Link to the full article to read more