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This isnt hard. putting your kid in the ground is hard. this is a button. >> this week, for the first time in more than two decades, florida lawmakers defied the nra. the republican-controlled house and senate passed new gun restrictions, a law signed today by floridas republican governor rick scott. a big "l" for the nras king pin in florida former president marian hammer described as the most influential gun lobbyist in the united states. hours after the bill signing hammer and the nra announc...

And a total aberration from other sessions or other opportunities to pass legislation is that the republicans are fairly united in jumping off the cliff together. i think you had some 67 republicans with a or a plus ratings combined in the house and senate who decided to support this bill. and its pretty difficult to punish all of them. its usually, when you have a couple people who are straying from the flock, you can focus on two, three, one person. but thats a really, really high number. and ...

Florida lawmakers defied the nra. the republican-controlled house and senate passed new gun restrictions, a law signed today by floridas republican governor rick scott. a big "l" for the nras king pin in florida former president marian hammer described as the most influential gun lobbyist in the united states. hours after the bill signing hammer and the nra announced they are suing florida. with me now, contributor to "new yorker" magazine michael spies, the author of the profile. politico mark ...

Jumping off the cliff together. i think you had some 67 republicans with a or a plus ratings combined in the house and senate who decided to support this bill. and its pretty difficult to punish all of them. its usually, when you have a couple people who are straying from the flock, you can focus on two, three, one person. but thats a really, really high number. and its also important to point out that the folks who were carrying those bills are in line to become the house speaker next year, the...

By the parkland students and their parents is a rare victory for advocates of gun reform and was unimaginable just three weeks ago when the legislature coward before marian hammer and the nra and refused to even take up an assault weapons ban. its a victory described by parkland survivor david hog as a small step in a huge movement and only the beginning. joining me now, mark caputo, nadine smith, former republican congressman david jolly, and brandon wolf, a survivor of the pulse nightclub shoo...

This isnt hard. putting your kid in the ground is hard. this is a button. >> this week, for the first time in more than two decades, florida lawmakers defied the nra. the republican-controlled house and senate passed new gun restrictions, a law signed today by floridas republican governor rick scott. a big "l" for the nras king pin in florida former president marian hammer described as the most influential gun lobbyist in the united states. hours after the bill signing hammer and the nra announc...

Douglas on it, that they had to pass something for the teachers like marks wife because they were getting dmanlds fremands f teachers, the students and the parents. you had house democrats bitterly divided on the bill. the democrat caucus voted 21-9 against the bill because of what they consider a poison pill about the carrying of weapons in school. how do you see this changing? youre backing the no nra money hashtag that has already signed up hundreds of people that say they wont take the nras ...

Fleeing as quickly as they can from the nra brand. people are asking questions. you see the polling overwhelmingly supporting the common sense measures that david was just talking about. we cannot continue down the path that the nra -- the answer to every problem with the nra is more guns and more guns and more guns. one of the students asks, okay, so we harden our schools and we arm our teachers. are we going to have armored school buses? in night clubs do we have armed bartenders? at veterans ...

These women who maybe before kind of voted in presidential elections but didnt know maybe what district they were in are just now hyper involved. and those are the kind of people i think that are suddenly turning, that are suddenly making it safe for democrats to take on the nra and are suddenly making it -- are suddenly kind of stigmatizing them in a way it didnt used to. in a way that people used to cower before the political power of the nra. >> i have not thought of it. youre right. that dia...

This is mark caputo down in florida is a great reporter on florida politics says slowly but not in significant numbers florida republicans moving towards an assault weapons ban. there is actual movement happening in florida even though they voted down the bill yesterday. >> right. some of that is probably just sincere. kind of sincere reaction to the horror of this shooting and is maybe not even. political calculations because i think theyre doing something kind of brave and risky and probably w...