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Today, the Daily Caller added a sentence at the end of its article stating:

"UPDATE: The Center for Media and Democracy never blamed ALEC for drafting the Florida law, only promoting it after it was passed. However, they did blame the NRA for drafting the law."

As CMD has documented previously, the leader of the NRA, took credit for the NRA's Marion Hammer conceiving of the legislation in Florida (a link to that story is in our article above). We also documented how she took the law to ALEC to get it blessed as a model bill (as noted in links in the article above).

Hammer herself told people she helped draft the bill, as noted by Media Matters ( http://mediamatters.org/blog/201203270005 ) and contemporaneous news reports mentioned that fact, which was uncontested until recently (see January 2005 news report uploaded to the story).

State Senator Simmons has attempted to reconstruct history by claiming that he redrafted portions of the bill after Durrell Peaden brought the bill that the NRA conceived of and helped draft to him. Without documentary evidence of any material substantive differences between the plan initiated by the NRA/Hammer and what was enacted into law after Hammer's intensive lobbying for it, there's nothing more than Simmons' late self-serving claims to rely on in contrast to contemporaneous admissions.

The Daily Caller did not respond to our Op-Ed about Koch connections.