Gun Free Zone

A complete AR 15 (some assembly required) for $ 289.98?
In fact, the FFL charge is going to be more expensive than the damned receiver depending on your local Merchant of Death. !

I just showed this to the wife and she confiscated my wallet. Apparently I must remember we have a very strict budget.

Idioms
catch a Tartar , to deal with someone or something that proves unexpectedly troublesome or powerful.

And, of course, the white caps are the gents belonging to the three letter club.

In my last post, I forgot to mention that in Venezuela,  gasoline is sold heavily subsidized. This bill was making the twitter rounds this afternoon and it is very illustrative of Socialism madness.

That is 36,902 liters or almost 10,000 gallons of gasoline for a grand total of 1.78 Bolivares.

The official rate at time of writing was 1 Bolivar = 0.14 Dollars which makes the price of 10,000 gallons of gasoline $ 0.249 or let’s just round it to a good old America quarter.

This is madness even for an oil producing country with all its systems working to perfection.

By my very unprofessional calculations, somebody during this weekend became the two million active Florida Concealed License Permit holder.

The official numbers will not come out for another three weeks, but I am confident we are now pass that line. We conga and party hardy then.

Cheers!

DATE:
May 17, 2019
TO:
USF & NRA Members and Friends
FROM:
Marion P. Hammer

USF Executive Director

NRA Past President
PROTECTION OF CHURCH PROPERTY BILL KILLED AGAIN!

Once again the Florida Legislature has turned a deaf ear to the pleas of ministers, church administrators and church members.  Churches have repeatedly – for over 3 years – prayed and urged the legislature to correct the provision in Florida law that usurps their right to provide safety and security on their property.  While the Florida House listened and passed legislation removing the restriction, the Florida Senate refused to allow SB-1238 by Sen. Debbie Mayfield (R) to pass.

Sen. Mayfield’s bill passed out of the first committee (Senate Judiciary Committee) by a vote of 4-2.  However, Republican Senator Anitere Flores refused to support the bill in the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, thus preventing it from coming to a vote. Senate leadership did nothing to help.  The Senate Criminal Justice Committee is made up of 3 Republicans and 2 Democrats.

The actions of Sen. Anitere Flores show that she is anti-gun and anti-church property rights.  Sen. Flores not only blocked the Church Protection bill this year, she is responsible for effectively killing it with a bad amendment in 2018, gutting it, and making it unacceptable.  She also voted to kill it in committee in 2017.

Sen. Flores’ history of opposing the private property rights of churches and other religious institutions, as well as her clear opposition to the First Amendment rights and Second Amendment rights of churches and other religious institutions, is well known. One is therefore prone to wonder if Senate President Bill Galvano deliberately referred the 2019 Church bill to the Criminal Justice Committee to allow Sen. Flores to kill it a third year in a row.

Reports filed with the Florida Division of Elections and reports in the media (Florida Politics article by Drew Wilson 11/2/2018) show that Republican President Bill Galvano took at least $500,000 from former NY Mayor Michael Bloomberg’s Everytown/Moms Demand anti-gun groups. We know Everytown’s money was for something – killing the church bill might have been part of the reason they gave the money to Sen. Galvano in the first place.

In the House, the Church bill, HB-403 by Rep. Erin Grall, passed out of all three committees of reference (House Criminal Justice Committee 12-2; House Education Committee 15-3; House Judiciary Committee 11-6), and then passed on the House Floor by a vote of 79 to 35, with 9 Democrats voting in FAVOR of the bill.

The House is to be commended for passing the bill all the way through the process even though they suspected that Senate Leadership would kill it.

NO GUN CONTROL BILLS PASS

While no gun control bills passed this session, no pro-gun bills passed either.  However, several bills that are good for gun owners and all Floridians did pass and are awaiting signature by Governor DeSantis.

SCHOOL SAFETY BILL ALLOWS TEACHERS TO CHOOSE TO CARRY

SB-7030 Implementation of Legislative Recommendations of the Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School Public Safety Commission –  Requiring sheriffs to establish a school guardian program; requiring the Office of Safe Schools to annually provide training for specified personnel; requiring district school boards and school district superintendents to partner with security agencies to establish or assign safe-school officers; revising requirements for school district zero-tolerance policies; providing standards and training for classroom teachers who choose to go through training in order to be armed at school.

The House vote was 65 – 47 with five (5) Republicans voting AGAINST the bill.  They are all newly elected freshmen. They are:  Vance Aloupis (R-Miami), Mike Beltran (R-Valrico), Mike Caruso (R-Boca Raton), Chip LaMarca (R-Lighthouse Point) and David Smith (R-Winter Springs). The Senate vote was 22-17 with Sen. Anitere Flores voting against it (along with the Democrats).  SIGNED BY GOVERNORMAY 8, 2019

PRIVACY RIGHTS OF CONCEALED CARRY LICENSE HOLDERS

HB-7059 Concealed Carry License –  Keeps in place the exemption from public records requirements for certain personal identifying information of concealed weapons and firearms license holders and individual applicants for a license to carry a concealed weapon or firearm.  There were no votes against this bill.   SIGNED BY GOVERNORMAY 14, 2019

LOCALS MUST PAY ATTORNEY FEES FOR PREEMPTION VIOLATIONS

HB-829 Attorney Fees by Rep. Anthony Sabatini (R) Imposes an award of attorney fees and costs and damages in civil actions against local governments when organizations and individuals have to bring lawsuits against municipalities and counties for violating preemption laws. Effective Date: 7/1/2019.  The vote on House Passage was 77-31 and in the Senate,  25-14.  AWAITING GOVERNOR’S SIGNATURE.

PROTECTING THE CONSTITUTION FROM OUTSIDERS

HB-5 – Contains an amendment by Rep. James Grant (R) to restore the right of Floridians to control the Florida citizen’s initiative petition process.  The amendment is intended to stop out-of-state millionaires and billionaires from sending paid, out-of-state petition gatherers into Florida to collect petition signatures to change Florida’s Constitution for the benefit of out-of-state special interests. The House voted 105-0 to pass the Grant amendment  with 15 House members not voting. The Senate concurred in the Grant amendment and passed the bill 22-17.  AWAITING GOVERNOR’S SIGNATURE.

I saw the tweets earlier this morning, but lacked a good photo image to bring the news here. Now we have not only that front page image from a local paper, but citizen journalism sharing the information.

Why no gasoline in a country where the oil literally comes out from underground like the Beverly Hillbillies? Socialism.

Socialism removed the many engineers within PDVSA that knew about the oil industry and substituted them with loyal political hacks who were owed favors.  Money that was supposed to go to maintenance, was diverted to private pockets and eventually the equipment began to fail.

Refineries have not been refining up to deigned levels for a long time and so much so that Venezuela was forced to import gas to  cover the demand. But now, with a government refusing to pay bills and accounts frozen through the world, the citizens are now facing the probability they will need to walk, use public transportation or buy a burro.

Once PDVSA was only second to US companies in oil extraction, refining and distributing. Today, thanks to Socialism, we are about  week away from Mad Max 2.

Go Bernie! Go AOC!

En #Yaracuy se registran largas colas para colocar gasolina a los vehículos, en las pocas estaciones de servicio que tienen combustible en la capital del Estado. El régimen destruyó a Pdvsa y hoy el pueblo paga las consecuencias. #VzlaSinGasolina pic.twitter.com/faSJdunObq

— PJ Yaracuy (@PJYaracuy) May 16, 2019

En Lagunillas Edo Zulia, cuatro días haciendo cola #VzlaSinGasolina pic.twitter.com/WzOfL318Mj

— Venezuela (@nayisalazar) May 16, 2019

Así está Venezuela…
¡Caos por surtir gasolina!#VzlaSinGasolina#17May@LucioQuincioC @LuisOlavarrieta pic.twitter.com/TrzQmCAuap

— (E) (@SoyEdgar77) May 17, 2019

Even in the worst economic times

A buddy sent me this:

I think there is an added layer of irony that there is a huge overlap in the demographic of pro-abortion and pro-gun control.

This was part of the point I tried to make yesterday.

I am pro-choice because I am pro-gun.   The Supreme Court declared a right to the people as interpreted from the Constitution, and I am not going to undermine that.

I’m not going to yank out the abortion block from my Jenga tower of rights because it could bring my gun block crashing down.