Bloomberg Pays for Year Long Effort in Attempt to Discredit Marion Hammer

By Dean Weingarten

Arizona -(Ammoland.com)- Mike Spies recently spent a year investigating Marion Hammer, the legendary NRA member and Second Amendment proponent in Florida.

Spies is no novice. He is a professional writer who was on the editorial board of the New Yorker for over three years. He has a Bachelors in English from the University of Vermont, and a Masters of Fine Arts in Creative Non-Fiction from Columbia University in the City of New York. He spent nearly two years at Vocativ, leaving in June of 2015 to join The Trace, the hard-core anti-Second Amendment group financed by Michael Bloomberg.

Much of Spies investigation centered on freedom of information requests for emails from the Florida Legislature.

Mike, uncontroversially, found that Marion Hammer is an effective lobbyist for restoring Second Amendment rights.

Most bills are written by lobbyists, who keep in close contact with sympathetic legislators. Marion is no exception. Spies highlights one of Marion’s success stories. From thetrace.org:

Hammer works with a government staff lawyer to create the ‘Pop-Tart’ gun bill — months before it has a sponsor

In March 2013, an 8-year-old Maryland boy was suspended from his elementary school after he chewed a Pop-Tart into the shape of …Read the Rest

Source:: AmmoLand