The National Rifle Association may have met an immovable object in Florida: Big Business. The Florida Chamber of Commerce is fighting an N.R.A.-backed bill that guarantees the right to take guns to work (or at least to the office parking lot; guns would have to be kept locked up in a car). The bill would hit uncooperative employers with felony charges. "This time they crossed the line," says the Florida Chamber's Mark Wilson of aggressive N.R.A. lobbyists. With a similar Oklahoma bill stalled in the courts, Florida G.O.P. lawmakers are torn between two of their best friends. Take the bill's sponsor,...
Caught In A Gunfight
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