But he DID sign the Constitutional Carry bill for all of that.
Only because the legislature had enough votes to override the veto. He’d been trying to kill the bill in congress and almost succeeded when he had an ally use a parliamentarian maneuver to get the bill kicked. So the state congress gutted another bill and replaced it with the gun legislation and passed it again.
(That’s a fuzzy summary from memory and may not be 100% accurate - but close enough for government work)