It is usually Miguel who chides Florida gun owners for their inaction.

I grew up in Miami but moved away when I turned 18.  Only my most extended family lives there and I don’t regularly go back.  It’s not my home anymore, there is little to nothing I can do to affect change there.

My only specific interest in Florida gun rights is my, Florida carry permit, which I’ve had since I was 21 and my desire to continue to possess one as a non-resident because of the reciprocities it offers.

In a more general interest, I was proud of Florida being the “Gunshine” state.  It was Florida that was largely the catalyst of the concealed carry movement when it went to a shall issue process in 1987.

The anti-gun movement has wanted to take down Florida since then.  Oh, what a victory they could claim if they turned the Gunshine State into East California.  Assault weapon bans, magazine capacity bans, and an end to preemptions, an attack on stand your ground and castle doctrine, are part of that.  I believe what they want to most is to make Florida may issue like California, where only the most upstate redneck counties that border Alabama and rural Georgia will issue permits and everywhere else CCW is eliminated.

The damage it would do to concealed carry if Florida became may issue is incalculable.  How many other swing states could see reversals from shall issue to may issue?  Illinois, Wisconsin, Michigan, Missouri, Arizona, all have a few deep blue cities that hold enough of the population to swing them.

That’s why it is so important to stop the anti-gun bills before it gets to that point.  If they can’t pick the low-hanging fruit, they get anything else.

Florida gun owners must show that they won’t take this lying down.

Take a look at Virginia.  Virginia went Blue for the same reason Illinois is, two high population Blue bubbles representing the capital and state’s economic center hold a little more than half of the population of the state.

That made it possible for the state legislature and governor to pass anti-gun laws.  That activated the pro-gun people in Virginia.

https://twitter.com/SharylAttkisson/status/1214325698808209408

An hour to go before VIrginia Beach votes on its 2nd Amendment Sanctuary proposal and the line is around the block. pic.twitter.com/nmo0d9MidW

— Erik (@soderstrom) January 6, 2020

Virginia Citizens Defense League membership has doubled in the last month. 100,000 Virginians have shown up at local meetings opposing Governor Blackface’s gun ban proposals.

— Erik (@soderstrom) January 6, 2020

Did you catch that?

“100,000 Virginians have shown up at local meetings opposing Governor Blackface’s gun ban proposals.”

They showed up.

Growing up in Miami, I get it, Tallahassee is a bitch and half away.  It’s an eight hour drive.  If you want to protest the state legislature during a gun bill, you are taking two days off from work.

But show up at your state representative’s local office.

Get 5,000 gun owners to protest outside your state senator’s office on a Saturday for his staffers to see.

Make it clear that you are no happy and if you come out in droves to protest today, what message does that send about what you will do on election day?

And for God’s sake, leave your guns at home when you do.  Flags are fine, but the media is already going to treat you like assholes, don’t give them rope to hang you as “insurrectionists threatening violence.”

You have the unfortunate position of being at the vanguard of this.  I know you didn’t ask for it, but that’s the situation.  Rise to the occasion and demonstrate for your rights, the gun owners across the country need you to do it.

(UPDATE) This bill was rewritten to add background checks to private sales in Gun Shows. It was voted 7 Yeas to 0 Nays and reported favorably by the Infrastructure and Security Committee.

SPBs for Consideration by Infrastructure and Security
Public Safety: Requiring emergency medical technicians and paramedics to disclose certain confidential communications to law enforcement agencies to communicate a threat under certain circumstances; requiring specified licensees, rather than psychiatrists, to disclose certain confidential communications to law enforcement agencies to communicate a threat under certain circumstances; authorizing a person who is not a licensed importer, a licensed manufacturer, or a licensed dealer and who chooses to not use a licensed importer, a licensed manufacturer, or a licensed dealer to facilitate a private sale of his or her firearm to sell the firearm if he or she complies with specified requirements, etc.
Effective Date: Except as otherwise expressly provided in this act, this act shall take effect July 1, 2020
Last Event: 01/06/20 S On Committee agenda– Infrastructure and Security, 01/13/20, 3:30 pm, 110 Senate Building on Monday, January 6, 2020 4:13 PM

Read the Text of the Bill (UPDATED)

Yeah, I am confused too. Why mix two different things in one bill?  And no names on who created this bill either, must be something I do not know about the mechanics of the Legislature that is plenty.

So, if you go to the text of the bill, our interesting part begins in the bottom of page 5.

(14)(a) A person who is not a licensed importer, a licensed manufacturer, or a licensed dealer and who chooses not to use a licensed importer, a licensed manufacturer, or a licensed dealer to facilitate a private sale may sell his or her firearm to  another person if all of the following requirements are met:

The requirements? Basically that the transaction is recorded in a notarized bill of sales which must include all details of the gun, the seller and the buyer.  The form must include a detailed questionnaire for the buyer which goes deeper than the questions you will find in your ATF 4473 form. Asking if the buyers is under indictment for domestic violence or any felony go way beyond the usual scope and any cautious seller would kill the transaction rather than have the possibility of  coming back to bit them in the posterior. Remember, you can be charged with anything by a prosecutor, but that does not mean you will be found guilty of anything. You lose your gun rights only after a court judgment, not an accusation.  

Then the buyer must present valid government-issue ID sign the affidavit he is not a prohibited person and have the bill notarized.

The regular Waiting Period regulations and exceptions apply. Yes, if you have a CWL, you do not need to do the waiting.

Failure to do a private sale with this paperwork is a misdemeanor of the second degree, punishable with 60 days in jail and a $500 fine.

Why I don’t like this bill even though I defend the use of a Bill of Sale for private transactions? The first reason I explained above. Asking if the person is under indictment is a scare tactic and a prohibition a priori by scaring the seller into rethinking the transaction and “playing it safe” by ending it.

Second, I hate being told what to do with my private property, specially without any consideration or thought.  I find it insulting that I have to force a well known family member of a close friend to sign an affidavit when I know they are upstanding citizens. A stranger or casual acquaintance? Yes, but otherwise it is a big fat no. This Bill of Sale becomes a tool to try and get somebody guilty of something after a shooting and if it is the Seller who realized the transaction in good faith, a bad prosecutor won’t mind as long as he can get another win in the scoreboard.

So dear Government: You don’t trust me? I trust you even less.

Florida Gun Rights 2020 – SPB 7028 – Mandatory Bill of Sale for Private Sales of Firearms – No UBC – BAD BILL

I am sure more than one has been getting the Internal Server Error 500 whatever message. I have been dealing with the Webhost and I learned a few things, most important is that the “Live Chat” people cannot fix crap and are probably working from home with a script.  Sumbitch could find a problem with my site and swore it was all right.

I then placed a call to the Host’s Support and I managed to at least get somebody to find I was having issues and had no problem admitting he had to go one level up for checking. It seems the site has been drawing an excessive number of resources via robots and that triggers an automatic block/choke on the site which is why you sometimes can load (slow) and sometimes you get the error message.

I added the robot.txt file fix and I am on hold so I can report back to the host and have the clock/choke removed.  I asked if this felt like an attack and the tech did say it could be very well that.  I know I have pissed a lot of people through the years and I would not be surprised if I am being targeted, specially with all the crap we have coming for Florida against Gun Rights and Self Defense.

My apologies and I am trying to get this fixed ASAP.

Anthony Clark is a socialist, veteran (what do I keep saying), teacher who is running for Congress in Illinois, to be Chicago’s version of AOC.

On Saturday he attended an ANSWER anti-war rally in Chicago, which rapidly turned into an anti-American, anti-Capitalism, anti-Israel rally.

He Tweeted this:

When you attend an anti-war protest, calling out a capitalist, racist, & imperialist system that sends our working class sons, daughters, & they to die in war

& run into students of yours! We radicalize in our classrooms! ✊?#NoWarOnIran pic.twitter.com/DzPmuYgY8N

— Anthony V. Clark (@anthonyvclark20) January 4, 2020

So he fully admits that his role as a teacher in the Chicago public school system is to radicalize his students into anti-American, anti-Capitalist, socialists who support Islamist terrorism.

If there ever was a politician who made a clearer argument as to why the public school system should be burned to the ground and the ashes salted, I can’t think of it.

While the Democrats and media are eulogizing Suleimani, I thought I would share a little bit more of why that pile of pig shit in an Iranian uniform needed to be sent to hell courtesy of the United States Military and the Lockheed Martin Corporation.

First, some physics.

Explosions are powerful, but that power diminishes quickly.

The power of a shockwave diminishes as a function of the inverse of the cube of the distance from the explosion.  Doubling the distance between the explosive and the target decreases the force on the target by a factor of 8.

This is why lots of smaller explosions are more effective than one big one at destroying an area, and why going from a kiloton to a megaton doesn’t increase the blast radius of your bomb by 1,000 times.

There are two phenomena in explosive science, the Misznay-Schardin effect and the Munroe effect, that say roughly the same thing.  The force of an explosive occurs perpendicular to the surface of the explosive.

A flat sheet of explosive will drive most of the force perpendicular to the large flat surfaces (Misznay-Schardin effect).  This is the principle behind the M18A1 Claymore mine.

A cavity in an explosive directed towards a surface will form a jet of gas that has increased armor-penetrating capability (Munroe effect).  This is just a bunch of vector addition.  The explosion occurs perpendicular to the surfaces of the inside of the cone, which add up and the resultant vector is very large, coming out of the center of the cone.

This is a shaped charge, and many people are familiar with it.  The problem with a standard shaped charge is that the jet of high-velocity gas that burns through armor dissipates quickly.  Just like a lens, there is a focal length that the “beam” of gas converges on, and much beyond that, it spreads out and loses its effectiveness.

Lastly, some metallurgy.  There is a phenomenon called adiabatic shear.  This is when metal is plastically deformed so quickly the heat can’t dissipate in the metal.  If you are familiar with machining, this is why cutting chips are so hot they will turn blue and burn you.  It’s not friction, it’s adiabatic shear.  Enough adiabatic shear and you can actually melt metal.

This has some awesome weapons applications, like depleted uranium rounds which are self-sharpening instead of mushrooming to penetrate armor.

So, you are an arms designer and you want to make a small warhead that is very effective against armor at extended distances.

You create a warhead with a concave depression, lined with a highly ductile, high-density metal, like a contact lens.  The explosion starts in the center of the depression and radiates outward.  This flips this contact lens inside out, imposing enough adiabatic shear to turn the metal into a semi-molten mass, and the resultant vector gives a higher velocity than the explosive velocity of the explosive and what you get is a molten metal slug traveling at upwards of 6,000 fps.  The higher the density metal you chose, the further the range and deeper the penetration your slug has.

This is the science of the explosively formed penetrator.

The good news is, this is not an easy thing to make effectively.  The shape of the concave disk, the explosive, the detonator, not something you cobble together in a cave if you want it to work well.

This is where Suleimani comes in.  The Iranians had the ability to make EFPs, and were providing them to insurgents in Iraq as well as other Shiite militias.

The first generation of M1116 up-armored HMMWV that were used in Iraq were capable of defeating the smaller homemade IEDs that were being used against our troops.  Sure the vehicle was blown to shit, but our soldiers survived and that was what was important.

Then came Iranian made EFPs turned into IEDs, which became known as “Superbombs” and what The New York Times called “The Most Lethal Weapon Americans Faced in Iraq.”

According to Stripes:

EFPs killed at least 196 U.S. troops and wounded nearly 900 between 2005 and 2011, defense officials revealed in 2015, and Castner said a high number of amputations throughout the war were the direct result of the weapons. In the 2006 attack, slugs took the legs off a soldier and a gunner, he wrote in his memoir, “The Long Walk.”

These weapons were made and smuggled into Iraq by Iran.

Soleimani’s Quds Force provided training and logistics to militants in Iraq, along with far-reaching EFP supply routes and factories inside the country, the history said, where knowledge and tips on their construction filled CD-ROMs circulated among bombmakers.

Not just that, Iran made technological improvements to enhance the destructive power of these weapons against our troops.

Many were concealed in foam blocks made to look like curbs and rocks, with a telltale indicator of a passive infrared lens peeking through that earned the nickname the “Eye of Allah” from U.S. troops.

Iranian-backed bombmakers were also creative in their defeat of U.S. countermeasures, Castner said.

The infrared laser, operating in a manner similar to the safety beam used for garage doors, is used to trigger the explosion. So-called “rhino” horns were attached to vehicles to set them off prematurely, but bombmakers would revise their design to account for the horns and revamp the geometry of the array to make sure the slugs passed through drivers, passenger compartments and engines, he said.

This is how a bunch of barely literate Iraqi insurgents were so effective.  They had the Iranian military-industrial complex backing them up, doing their R&D.

And what did this look like for our troops on the ground?

(Graphic Warning)

All that gore on the steering wheel and dashboard is what is left of an American soldier who got hit by an EFP made in Iran and smuggled into Iraq by Soleimani’s Quds Force.

Pools and blood and torn off limbs.  That is the legacy of Soleimani.

Even the Washington Post admits it.

When members of Congress, Hollywood elites, assholes on Twitter, and gigantic pieces of shit like Michel Moore defend Iran or criticize Trump for taking out Soleimani, what they are doing is covering for a man who has the blood on his hands for every single one of our military who was wounded or killed by an EFP.

These fetid masses of human garbage, posting their feculent emesis all over Twitter deserve nothing but the contempt of traitors.

George Lopez should be added to your list of names that you are taking.

Apparently $80 Million is more than enough motivation for George to contemplate assassinating Trump.  He’s willing to do it for half.

This is a foghorn of a virtue signal about just how much he hates Trump, and also I think based on the fact that he is worth an estimated $45 Million, and must be pretty content with his lifestyle.

The abandoned son of migrant farm workers, raised in the United States has the opportunity to become a multimillionaire celebrity (D-list is still fame) with his own TV show, and he wants to repay this country for that by assassinating the President who bombed an enemy general who supplies armor-piercing weapons that blew the arms and legs off our soldiers by defeating their up-armored Humvees.

That is the sickness we are dealing with here.

So you do not look like a idiot trying to be the Ultimate #NeverTrumper.

Missed it by this much: Over 1,600 miles and two countries.