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Pretty interesting read on Marion Hammer, an NRA lobbyist in Florida, who over the last 30 years has written and helped pass most of the nutty gun laws that have been copied by other states, i.e. concealed carry, stand your ground etc
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/03/05/the-nra-lobbyist-behind-floridas-pro-gun-policies
"As recently as 1988, Cole notes, a federal court maintained that “for at least 100 years [courts] have analyzed the second amendment purely in terms of protecting state militias, rather than individual rights.” The subsequent shift toward individual rights can be traced back to Hammer.