Tag: National Rifle Association
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As Florida adds firearm ‘open carry’ to ‘stand your ground,’ grocery shopping can be hazardous
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
Publix shoppers may want to keep track of more than BOGOs now that customers can stroll grocery aisles flashing guns and knives like they’re roaming the range in the wild, wild West. -
Longtime NRA lobbyist Marion Hammer, 86, opens fire on NRA, claims it abandoned her, breached $220K-a-year contract
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
At 86, lobbyist and grandma Marion Hammer remains ready to rumble – this time against her once steadfast ally, the National Rifle Association. -
NRA dumps longtime Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer, halts hundreds of thousands in payments flowing to her
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
No one seems to agree on the actual origin of the idiom, “The bigger they are, the harder they fall.” But it’s nonetheless useful to describe what just happened to longtime National Rifle Association Florida lobbyist Marion Hammer. -
Lobbyist Marion Hammer’s NRA sugar daddy LaPierre is gone, but she’s still riding high on NRA cash
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
National Rifle Association honcho Wayne LaPierre’s ticket to ride the NRA’s gravy train was canceled last week with a New York jury’s widely reported corruption findings, but his longtime Florida collaborator Marion Hammer continues riding high on NRA millions he funneled to her. -
Florida’s red flag gun law enforced haphazardly five years after Parkland massacre inspired legislation, research shows
By Noreen Marcus
FloridaBulldog.org
In 2018 Florida legislators—even the NRA posse—bowed to the urgent need for gun control after a mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School: They passed minimal reforms including a red flag law. -
NRA’s Marion Hammer isn’t really retiring, just dodging lobbyist disclosure requirements
By Dan Christensen
FloridaBulldog.org
Last week, the National Rifle Association announced that its longtime Tallahassee-based lobbyist Marion Hammer will “step down” but “continue to serve as an advisor to the NRA.” That’s a curious turn of a phrase. But it has a simple, unstated meaning: Hammer, 83, will soon be able to dodge once again regularly disclosing to Floridians the splendid sums the NRA slips regularly into her purse, currently more than $50,000 every three months.
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