Campaign against guns on campus adds lobbyist

The Campaign to Keep Guns off Campus has added Jacob Elpern, the former chief of its Florida State University chapter, to its lobbying team in Tallahassee.

Elpern, who graduated this year, joins the organization’s staff full time, state affairs director Kathryn Grant said.

His registration took effect on Dec. 14. Grant also lobbies for the group, which belongs to the Florida Coalition to Prevent Gun Violence.

Targets this year, Grant said, include SB 140, which would allow people to openly carry guns on college campuses, local government meetings, the Legislature, airport passenger terminals outside security screening areas, and elsewhere.

HB 6005, meanwhile, would allow concealed weapons on campus but not in the other places envisioned in the Senate bill.