Marion Hammer

Hammer is the National Rifle Association’s Florida lobbyist. At seventy-eight years old, she is nearing four decades as the most influential gun lobbyist in the United States. Hammer works in Tallahassee, on a quiet downtown strip a few blocks from the capitol. . In the eighties, she crafted a statute that allows anyone who can legally purchase a firearm to carry a concealed handgun in public, as long as that person pays a small fee for a state-issued permit and completes a rudimentary training course. In the early two-thousands, Hammer created the country’s first Stand Your Ground self-defense law,