Just last night I was talking to a friend about Florida’s Governor Rick Scott’s chances to beat Sen. Bill Nelson and the possibility that we would have not one but two (more or less) Republican senator representing us in D.C.

Sen. Bill Nelson, D-Florida has a narrow lead over his state’s governor Rick Scott, a Republican and Nelson’s would-be challenger in the Florida Senate race, according to a new Quinnipiac University Poll. The poll found Nelson edging out Scott with 46 percent support to the governor’s 42 percent.

Poll: Sen. Bill Nelson narrowly leads Rick Scott in Florida Senate race

And then, this morning we find out we are still gonna “enjoy” Bill Nelson’s works in Washington. Why?

 TALLAHASSEE — Gov. Rick Scott added a new hurdle to the Legislature’s efforts to respond to the Parkland high school massacre, repeating Thursday that he opposes any attempt to arm teachers at schools.
“I’ve been very clear,” Scott said Thursday. “I want to make sure we have significant law enforcement presence at every school. I want to make sure we harden our schools. But I don’t support arming teachers.”

Gov. Rick Scott opposed to arming teachers

Listen, I understand that you may have some moral (albeit misguided) concerns about arming teachers. I actually believe you really don’t care one way or the other, but somebody in your Senate Campaign, probably a leftover from the Jeb Bush team, told you that you need the teachers to win the Senate, that you need to be a compassionate Republican and save the teachers from this imposition because the Teachers’ lobby said so and you need to look palatable to the Democratic voters.

But what you don’t do is piss off the hard-core voters: Gun Owners. For fuck’s sake, man! You do not ignore at least 1,874,015 certified gun owners (Feb 2018 – concealed weapons permits alone) to kiss the ass of lobbyist only representing ‎180,442 teachers! And God knows how many more that do not carry but are Gun Enthusiasts anyway and that right now are looking at the shit show in Tallahassee and reckoning of the Legislature is gonna screw them.

Dear GOP Candidates: A if a Democrat Voter is given the chance to cast a ballot between a Democrat-Acting Republican or a true Democrat, It does not take a genius to figure out which way that piece of paper is gonna be marked.

Hat Tip to KevinC.

You all know my guiding principle: Don’t trust anybody, read the source. Well, Keeping eye on the amendments being piled up by the Democrats on the “Please add more shit to the bill” I ran across this section of 7026 about Risk Protection Orders that is quite illustrative:

You are only dangerous if you pose a significant threat with a gun, that’s it. Is your son hearing voices and cooking batches of ANFO while screaming to the sky how he is  gonna go blow the local Methodist Church? Sorry, no Risk Protection Order (RPO.) Cousin Chuck stopped taking his meds and now is filling a backpack with short machetes after he posted in Facebook that he is gonna slice customers at the nearest Publix? No RPO, sorry. Brother In Law Irving is modifying his F 350 with metal spikes all around and announcing he is gonna shish-k-bob the shit out of every cyclist in the next Critical Mass ride? If it ain’t a gun, you cannot apply.

Stupidly, the Legislature trying to appease Anti Gunners have left a door wide open to pass at least two Broward Sheriff patrols car side by side. Instead of making it a real safety bill (misguided and invasive to rights or not) into a narrow-tailored gun control bill.

Thus, on principle alone, it must die.

Rick is part of the blog family so he asked me to pass the info along and I am more than happy to do so.

Hey All.

Welcome to our first email blast. Unless you live under a rock, you are aware of the new push our “friends” in the legislature and on CNN are making towards trying to ban the AR-15. Well, if you are like me, you are thinking perhaps you should acquire one (or another one) before you can’t anymore. The problem is that they are next to impossible to actually find in stock right now, at least at a reasonable price. Our regular distributors do not have any and I cannot even back order/reserve any that might come in.

Well, I recently signed up with a manufacturer to be an authorized reseller of theirs. The company is Aero Precision and they are actually the OEM manufacturer for many of the budget AR brands, apparently including Palmetto State and Ruger (per some discussion boards I have read online).

Aero Precision has a wide range of parts and firearms and while not the lowest cost of all the ones out there, they are very high quality and thus we can get a better rifle for the cost an entry level one. More importantly, the key thing here is that we can actually get inventory from them. Yes, there is a 4-week lead time at the moment due to a lack of lowers, but we can “get in line” to get what we want.

We have put together a very nice base AR-16 556 with some upgrades including a Bushmaster 30-round magazine and a red-dot reflex sight from Sunmark.  The cost of the rifle is $599, plus $25 to cover shipping and background check/transfer fee (credit cards are 3% extra to cover those fees).  They go for $735 on the Aero Precision website with just regular sights. For $599 plus $25 fee, you get a very nice AERO AC-15 Complete Rifle. See it at https://aeroprecisionusa.com/aero-ac15-complete-rifle.html (same rifle but with upgraded optics and Bushmaster magazine)

Upper Features:
Upper: Standard M4 Upper Receiver
Barrel: 16″ 5.56 NATO, Carbine Length, 1:7 Twist, 4150 Chrome Moly Vanadium, QPQ corrosion resistant finish, M4 Profile
Sights: Sightmark Mini Shot Reflex Sight – 1-23x16mm Single 3 MOA Dot Red Matte
Handguard: Standard M4 Carbine Handguard with double heat shield
Gas System: Carbine Length Gas System and A2 Pinned Front Sight Block
Bolt Carrier Group: M16 Cut, 8620 Steel, Phosphate Finish, Properly Staked, Carpenter 158 Bolt, HP and MPI Tested
Muzzle Device: Standard A2 Flash Hider

Lower Features
Lower: Gen 2 Lower Receiver with flared magwell and upper tension screw
Lower Parts Kit: Standard AR15 Lower Parts Kit
Buffer Kit: Standard Mil-Spec AR15/M4 Buffer Kit
Stock: Standard M4 Collapsable Stock
Grip: Standard A2 Pistol Grip
Magazine: Bushmaster 93306 AR-15 Magazine 30RD

When you compare it to the cheapest Palmetto State Arms rifle ($599 but on sale at the moment for $499), you are only about $100 more expensive, and the reflex sight itself is over $60 on Amazon. So you get a far better rifle for less than $50 more than the cheapo PSA rifle. Also, if we purchase 6 or more them, we can pass along the price break and do them for just $599 with no shipping/background check fee. I did some looking around and found nothing but good things written about them. This is a good overview review of them from what appears to be an unbiased source: https://www.tactical-life.com/firearms/test-aero-precision-ac-15-rifle/

To the extent you want to play Barbie dress up we can customize your rifle, but this represents a pretty nice starter rifle that one can build on, or really enjoy as is. If you are interested in purchasing one, please let me know ASAP. I would like to place the order next Friday, March 9th so we can get in line ASAP. We can also order any parts or other items you see on their website, likely at prices considerably better than what you see there.

Feel free to forward this to any friends/family that might be interested. Interested parties should contact me via email at rick@305guns.com and we can move forward from there. Again – we plan to order after next Friday.

Thanks!
Rick

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When I started this blog, one of the firs post was We Are The New Negroes.

 So when I see a sign like the one above I am insulted. Why am I being treated like a second class citizen? I have demonstrated my desire of independence by not relying on the government for my safety. I have jumped through the legal hoops to demonstrate I am a Good Guy. I spent money on a quality weapon and gear to protect myself and my loved ones. and yet, I am treated like a pariah because some idiots fail to see the difference between reality and their own impotent fears and in the process they put innocent people at risk by allowing the true sick and the criminals a target rich environment for their misdeeds and mayhem..
Gun Free Zones are nothing more than a modern-day Jim Crow. This has to stop. Now.

But it has not stopped. And now we are again going through another round of Modern Jim Crow posturing by the weak and the lame.

Companies do not want to do business with the NRA.

If we carry, we can’t be around others because we are a danger to women and children and they place signs that say “No gun here!” as if saying “Come, enjoy our business, thee Ugly People With Guns are not allowed here.”

Media does not want us around nor allows us an even chance in their domains. So we create our own and now they are upset about that and they want NRA TV removed from existence.

And we must prove and pay to exercise our God Given Rights: Permits, background checks, fingerprints. We are considered unworthy, Second Class.

Their “artists” cannot help themselves and have to ridicule us, to caricaturize us as less than human, no better than trash:

And if we get uppity and demand respect, we are threatened with government deeds, violence and death.

Ours is a righteous cause. We will win because the other option is unthinkable. We will take lumps, that is for sure. But we are ornery and keep moving forward till we push our Opposition over the cliff of Oblivion.

And I almost forgot: We have the guns.

I will tell you up front all these Legislative rules and motions and stuff are weird and will not assume to know them.

I have been keeping up with the Senate all day and watching them on their streaming service. SB 7026 was placed in Special Order Calendar and I figured was because of the sixty (60) amendments added to the bill. After the regular session, I saw an announcement that the Special Session would begin 15 minutes after closing of the regular. I waited, the streaming service came up again and I decide to do a pit stop and a coffee run. When I came back, no streaming and only this announcement.

I do hope it is over for today. So far the bill is not scheduled for tomorrow and that means we don’t deal with it till Monday, or at east I hope so.

Anyway, I’ll be looking around coming 6:15 pm. It is not like I don’t trust them, but it is that I just do not trust them.

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I got this via email as I was writing:

TRACKED BILLS
CS/SB 7026 (2018) Public Safety
http://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2018/07026

SENATE – Retained on Special Order Calendar

I am gonna keep staring at the frigging screen till I get an update on the calendars and pray we run the clock out and the bill does not get a vote.

And the gun apparently may have jammed.

 Nikolas Cruz’s semiautomatic rifle may have jammed during the massacre at a high school in Parkland earlier this month, according to Miami Herald news partner CBS4.
Cruz then dropped the AR-15 and fled with other students, CBS4 reporter Jim DeFede tweeted Tuesday afternoon, citing three sources familiar with the investigation. Cruz still had 150 rounds of ammunition — meaning many more people could have died had he been able to keep firing…

So all those earlier reports that he had gotten training were BS. If he could not go through a simple malfunction drill, he was not trained.

Several state legislators who visited the school with crime-scene investigators said they learned from police that Cruz’s rifle was not top-of-the-line, perhaps explaining the malfunction.
The “weapon and bullets were not high quality and were breaking apart,” one of the legislators, state Sen. Lauren Book, D-Plantation, told the Herald.
Cruz went in with only 10-round magazines because larger clips would not fit in his duffel bag, Book said.

If this is true then: 1) The investigators lied like shot to the State Senators.  150 rounds in 10 round mags is 15 magazines rattling around inside a duffle bag and normal 30 rounders do not occupy that much space. 2) So much for the ban of High Capacity Assault Magazine Clips.

PS: Who is investigating? Broward Sheriff’s Office? That is gonna be a trustworthy report, right.

By Senator Rouson (D)

“The sale or transfer of a firearm to a person younger than 21 years of age may not be made or facilitated by any individual or entity.

The way I read it, you won’t even be able to gift any gun to your children under 21.

“Daddy, I am being stalked by my crazy ex-boyfriend. I need to borrow one of your guns.”
“Sorry Honey, it is against the law.”