Deputy commissioner for consumer affairs Mary Barzee Flores. Courtesy photo.
Florida’s most influential gun-rights lobbyist says don’t move — at least for now — the state’s concealed-weapons licensing program from the Department of Agriculture and Consumer Services.
But in a thin olive branch to Agriculture Commissioner Nikki Fried, National Rifle Association lobbyist Marion Hammer in a letter posted online Tuesday also made clear she and the other concealed-carry permit holders in the state — there were 1.95 million as of Jan. 15 — will be watching how Fried handles the high-profile program.
