What a week. We need this.

After 2,663 lines of law and an initial appropriation of $400 million, Amendment 234288 will become the new text of SB 7026 from its original quaint 864 lines. Pork will be spent in Florida “hardening” schools and I have this feeling in the pit of my stomach that shit won’t get fixed.

-Raising the age to 21? Stays.
-Three day waiting Period? Stays, but by-passable with CWP and Hunter Education certificate and a Hunter Safety Card.
-Bumpfire devices are prohibited and I don’t see a grandfather clause. Then again I don’t see where it says they have to be turned in or destroyed.
-Risk Protection Orders. Some expert will have to go through this.
-Written threats to kill, or do bodily injury, conduct a mass shooting or an act of terrorism. Felony.
-School Safety Awareness Program. School Pre-Crime Stoppers. And it must have an App so students can report anonymously, gee what could go wrong with that? Because there are no petty grievances and bullshit in high school that will end up with a visit by cops. This idea was recommended by students of Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School
-Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission. A 16 members to study when went wrong and ended up with the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School and make recommendations.
-Office of Safe Schools. “The office shall serve as a central repository for best practices, training standards, and compliance oversight in all matters regarding school safety and security, including prevention efforts, intervention efforts, and emergency preparedness planning.”
-School Resource Officers are now known as Safe School Officer. Again the mandate is to have them in every school. More training dealing with kids with mental problems.
-School Marshal program, but only if the school district approves it. Soo that is pretty much dead in most counties.
-APPROPRIATION: $400,000,000.00

A lot of the other amendments were withdrawn. Some were shot down and here are some of them.

-Firearm Registration.
-Moratorium on the sales and yadda-yadda of “Assault Weapons”.
-Making murder “illegaler.”
-State-Issued permit to own grandfathered Evil Black Rifles.
-State-Issued permit to own grandfathered large-capacity magazines.
-Assault weapons prohibited within 5 miles of schools, colleges, or universities.
-Elimination of State Preemption.
-Unsecure firearms prohibited with children present including your weapon while you are carrying it.
-Facilitating a long gun to somebody under 21.
-Mental Health Check to Carry Concealed (This one was a very late addition to the cauldron)
-Assault Weapons Ban (Long and short editions)
– Making a primary county administration building not located within the courthouse a Gun Free Zone.

As usual you go to the bill and read it for yourself, do not take my word as final since IANAL.

My opinion has not changed: The bill must go down in flames ASAP.  Not even the School Marshal is worth it because I have the feeling it won’t be implemented much, if at all.

OK, I am done with this till Monday. Enjoy the rest of your weekend.
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It is the Whole Foods of camping supply stores.  REI shoppers are the hipsters of the camping world.  Everything they sell is ridiculously overpriced.  REI makes Gander Mountain seem reasonable.  Of course, when you have a climbing wall in the middle of our store, you have to pay for that somehow.

REI has never sold guns.  It specializes in camping, climbing, skiing, hiking, and other outdoor sports.

That didn’t stop them from jumping on the post Parkland virtue signaling.

REI halts orders from Vista Outdoor over its response to Parkland shooting

Vista Outdoors is a big company.  Not just does it include Savage and Federal Ammo, but non gun companies like Bell Helmets, Tasco, Bushnell, Bolle, Blackhawk, Camp Chef, Camelbak, etc.

We’re talking about mountain biking, skiiing, and hiking equipment.  Very poplar brands too.

When REI drops the sale of Camelbak products, I think REI will be hurt by that a lot more then Vista Outdoors.

American Outdoor Brands owns Smith & Wesson, and Schrade, which is a brand REI carries.  CRKT has a partnership with Ruger.  Will REI be dropping those too?  How about Benchmade and their relationship with H&K.

Hell, every knife company comes to SHOT Show every year, so they are guilty by association.

The question is, after Vista Outdoors and American Outdoor brands are boycotted, will there be enough products on REI’s shelves to keep them in business?

I hope not.

But on to the bigger picture.

This idea, boycotting the non gun and ammo brands made by companies that are subsidiaries of the same holding companies that own guns (that’s how that works) is gaining traction online.

When You Buy These Bike Brands, You’re Supporting the Gun Lobby

If you bought a cute little Copilot trailer to ferry your kid around town with your bike, we’ve got some bad news: Your purchase supported the gun industry.

Same goes if you paid for a Bell or Giro brand bike helmet, or a Razkulls child helmet or Camelbak water bottle. All of those bike brands are properties of Vista Outdoor, which is also the largest ammunition manufacturer in America and the maker of the MSR15, an AR15-style assault rifle.

The company is very politically active in the gun lobby, with strong ties to the NRA and its lesser-known but powerful industry cousin, the NSSF.

Even the Sierra Club is in on this.

If this is the direction that these people want to go, I encourage them.

I just want them to understand exactly what they are getting themselves into.

American Outdoor Brands owns Smith & Wesson.  Smith & Wesson made the rifle used in the Parkland shooting.

Smith & Wesson owns SW Precision Components.  A 60 ton forge necessary to forge out AR uppers and lowers or 1911 frames is expensive.  You want to get the most used out of your equipment as possible.  So you run it 24/7.  If you don’t have the capacity to get all the use out of it yourself, you work as a subcontractor for other companies.

Same for heat treating furnaces, carburizing furnaces, plating equipment, plastic injection molding, etc.

You make things like:

Medical devices, automotive components, equipment for the oil and gas industry, etc.

Ruger owns Pine Tree Casting in New Hampshire.

Over the years Pine Tree has provided
investment castings for industries
including architectural hardware, sporting
goods, hand and power tools, marine
hardware, computer networks, food
service, medical and firearms. 

If you buy anything with metal injection molded (MIM) components, you support the gun industry and technology driven by Remington.

So…

Dear virtue signaling liberals,

Before you buy any processed food, medical devices, bicycle parts, car parts, cars, gasoline, or anything else that is forged, investment cast, injection molded, MIM, plated, heat treated, or has parts that were, you better check to make sure that they weren’t processed by SWPC or Pine Tree Casting, or you are supporting the gun lobby.

You had best just sit in the dark and starve, that is the only way to be sure.

This one is full on stupid but par for the Democrats.

Other are:
-Any firearms training associated with the NRA is to be verboten. Yeah, they are not targeting Concealed Carry either, right?
-Any retired LEO who wants to work as armed security in school cannot get his pension for six moths while getting paid as School Marshall.
-No possession of an Evil Black Rifle within 5 miles of a school.
-If you give your minor child a large-capacity magazine for whatever reason, you are a felon and can get 6 years in prison.
-You will need a permit to own large-capacity magazine and a background check to sell it to anybody else.
-Protection of Gun Ranges is gone.
-No concealed carry of large-capacity magazines. (Huh)
-School Sheriff candidates required to attend 12 hours of diversity training.

There is still way too much for me to read and transfer here, but as you can see, they have lost their ever-loving minds and throwing everything in the pot to see if it sticks somewhere.

Session opens in 30 minutes and I plan to watch it.

Any other post related to this will come out this afternoon and then I need a break with the missus.

PS: just in..

(13)(a)
A person younger than 25 years of age may not
6 purchase an assault weapon. The sale or transfer of an assault
7 weapon to a person younger than 25 years of age may not be made
8 or facilitated by any person

My email alert popped this amendment proposal he just filed:

It eliminates the minimum age of 21 to buy a long gun. Leaves it as it is right now.

If it gets approved or not, I have to say Steube has been the constant fighter for the Second Amendment in the Senate.

The Second Reading of SB 7026 starts at 10 am and runs till 1 pm. As of this time (7:23 am) there are 108 amendments tacked to the bill and about 95% are very anti gun and repetitive. The Democrats winning would men Florida gun rights get set back to the 1970s and without Open Carry.

Here is again a summary of the anti-gun amendments:

• Repeal State Pre-emption.
• Assault Weapons Ban light.
• Assault Weapon Ban, Feinstein-Style.*
• Safe Storage of weapons to forbid concealed carry when minors are near.
• Add Country Administration buildings as Gun Free Zones.
• Universal Background Checks.
• Repeal the Second Amendment in Florida.
• Firearm Registration.
• Moratorium on sales, transfers and delivery of AR 15 rifles for 2 years for a “study.”
• Bump Fire stock & devices ban.
• Making murders in schools “illegaler” than outside the school.
• Parent can remove a child from classroom if the teacher is carrying. That means making public what teacher carries and invalidating the principle.

Some of the very late entries deal with distracting the funds assigned for the Florida School Marshal Program into other areas the school board likes. It also wrangles away the control of the program from the Sheriff/Chief LEO to the School Board including who they want nominated or if any will be nominated.

If SB 7026 is a dumpster fire on its own, the adding of this amendments make it a tire landfill fire.

So, once again here is the list of the senators. Drop them a line. Or if you prefer a more personal touch and call them, here is a list with all the Senators and the links to their official pages. If you do not know or are not sure who is your senator after the last redistricting, here is a Legislator Finder.

baxley.dennis@flsenate.gov,
bean.aaron@flsenate.gov,
benacquisto.lizbeth@flsenate.gov,
bradley.rob@flsenate.gov,
brandes.jeff@flsenate.gov,
broxson.doug@flsenate.gov,
flores.anitere@flsenate.gov,
gainer.george@flsenate.gov,
galvano.bill@flsenate.gov,
garcia.rene@flsenate.gov,
grimsley.denise@flsenate.gov,
hukill.dorothy@flsenate.gov,
hutson.travis@flsenate.gov,
lee.tom@flsenate.gov,
mayfield.debbie@flsenate.gov,
negron.joe@flsenate.gov,
passidomo.kathleen@flsenate.gov,
perry.keith@flsenate.gov,
simmons.david@flsenate.gov,
simpson.wilton@flsenate.gov,
stargel.kelli@flsenate.gov,
steube.greg@flsenate.gov,
young.dana@flsenate.gov,

Do you remember Dallas Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway telling the NRA not to come to his fair city? It seems like any other criminal, apparently he knows NRA members frown o the criminal class in which he might be a part of.

Mayor Pro Tem Dwaine Caraway worked with a man, who is now facing federal prison time, in attempts to purchase property for a school bus agency that is now the focus of an ongoing federal corruption investigation, according to records obtained by NBC 5 Investigates.
Those records include emails that contradict what Caraway said in an interview in January, when he denied knowing of any business deals between Slater Swartwood Sr. and the beleaguered Dallas County Schools agency, which voters have elected to shut down.
In that interview, Caraway also said he knew of no business ties between Swartwood and Robert Leonard, who ran a security camera company doing business with DCS – transactions that triggered the financial collapse of the school bus agency and cost local taxpayers millions of dollars.

Emails Tie Mayor Pro Tem Caraway to Failed DCS Real Estate Deal 

Explains a lot, doesn’t it?

Hat Tip Gary E.