The NRA and its allies believe, however, that allowing a child’s doctor to inquire whether there are any guns at home and counsel a family on gun safety crosses into areas that impinge on a patient’s second amendment rights. It is “a sneaky backdoor attempt at gun control,” one commentator wrote. “A doctor’s job is to treat sick children and tell parents how to take care of sick children. They are not home monitors,” Marion Hammer, the NRA’s former president and Florida gun lobbyist, said in support of the Florida law.