Flores to Sunshine State News: “Throughout my personal, professional, and legislative career I have expressed concerns with the reduction of traditional gun-free zones. This is not something new nor should it be a surprise to those who follow the legislative process.”
The NRA was surprised, however, as Marion Hammer spoke for the association about their disappointment with Sen. Flores: “I thought that the Senate was an independent body. There are 40 members. I’m unaware the entire Senate has authorized her to speak for them.”
The NRA is one of the largest lobbying bodies in the United States, so it is commonly presumed in political circles that those who oppose the NRA experience the swift deaths of their political careers more often than not. Flores definitely made her opposition known in a major way, publicly bulwarking all but one of Sen. Steube’s gun bills. The one bill to pass through the Senate Judiciary Committee without Sen. Flores decimating it out of hand was Senate Bill 616, which lets holders of concealed-carry permits to carry their firearms into courthouses, provided they offload them at security checkpoints.
