Sen. Doug Broxson targeted by the NRA as 'linchpin' of school safety bill vote

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Jim Little, This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. Published 4:58 p.m. CT April 19, 2018 | Updated 5:03 p.m. CT April 19, 2018

Buy PhotoFlorida senator Doug Broxson speaks during the Trump rally at the Bay Center in Pensacola, Florida, on Friday, December 8, 2017.(Photo: Gregg Pachkowski, Gregg Pachkowski/This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.)Buy PhotoNational Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer has put Sen. Doug Broxson, R-Gulf Breeze, in her crosshairs.Hammer sent a letter to NRA supporters this week saying Broxson was the "linchpin" vote for the Marjory Stoneman Douglas School Safety Act that, among other things, raised the age to buy a gun in Florida to 21 in the wake of the shooting that killed 17 people at the Parkland high school in February.In the letter, which was posted publicly on Ammoland ^[1], Hammer said Broxson was one of seven Republicans who had committed to vote no on the bill. "If Doug Broxson had kept his word, the bill would have been killed in the Senate and Senate leadership would have had to start over and bring back a true school safety bill without the gun control provisions," Hammer wrote. "But at the last minute, Broxson caved to threats and promises from Senate leadership and switched his vote and sold you out."More: Florida Governor Rick Scott signs school safety bill to arm some teachers, fund mental health ^[2]Hammer has been described in national outlets at the most influential gun lobbyist in the country, including in a New Yorker profile of her in March ^[3].The school bill passed the Senate with a 20-18 vote, and the House passed it 67-50. Gov. Rick Scott signed the bill on March 9 ^[4].The same day Scott signed the bill into law, the NRA sued Florida,

Sen. Doug Broxson targeted by the NRA as 'linchpin' of school safety bill vote

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