PBS story about Marion Hammer, NRA Lobbiest:
Mike Spies:
Well, she’s been around for nearly four decades in the Florida legislator — or in Tallahassee, rather.

And she has accomplished some truly amazing things, things that have actually transformed not just Florida, but also the country. Beginning in the 1980s, she helped pass — she was responsible for pushing through, rather, the country’s first concealed carry law, which effectively allows people to carry concealed handguns in public if they can satisfy a very basic criteria to get a permit.

And that law has been replicated virtually in every state in some form. So, before that, it was more or less — it was very rare for someone to be able to carry a concealed weapon in public. And now it’s essentially been normalized.

There are 1.8 million of those concealed carry permit holders in Florida alone, by far the most in the country. And going forward, her other major accomplishments include the creation and then of course enactment of stand your ground, which was in 2005.

[pbs.org]