We The Slowly Boiled Frogs....

Gun control (i.e. illegal government control) has been incrementally introduced to the citizenry until some of them woke up and realized, too late, that their rights were gone,

Fortunately, here in Florida, we have Tyler Sirois fighting to reinstate the rights of 18–20-year-olds to purchase firearms, after it was illegally stripped from them in 2018 with the Marjory Stoneman Douglas Act, signed by then-governor Scott, and defended by none other than Pam Bondi when she was Florida's AG.

Also, the DOJ defends the NFA,....and that should tell you all you need to know about Ms. Bondi.

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you know the other day i'm just sitting there wondering like good night look at all
the 20 ,000 -plus gun control laws that have been put on the books since we allowed
the first one in 1934. Yes, the big boy, NFA.
And by the way, G -O -A and others are suing the DOJ and they're suing to repeal
the NFA, which is something that needed to definitely happen if you cut that down
that was the foundation for the 1968 gun control act and maybe we can shelve that
one too um so you look at all the gun control laws on the state local and federal
level and my goodness uh wow like i said over 20 000 of them and it's impossible
of course, to maintain compliance, which is a word that I absolutely hate, loathe,
despise, and abominate with every one of them. It's hard enough to stay in
compliance with the National Firearms Act of 1934 and the 1968 Gun Control Act,
but you add the plethora of other ones, and I tell you what, it's a patchwork of
gun control all over the country. And many states, yeah, You don't dare drive
through with a firearm without doing intense research before you do.
Now, for me, the Second Amendment is the only law that really applies, as far as
I'm concerned, and it applies to the government. As a matter of fact, the 14th
Amendment also says that the states are not allowed to enact gun control laws. The
Second Amendment told the federal government that they may not enact any gun control
laws, and yet they did. And we allowed it to happen. We let them.
We didn't stand up back then and say, oh, no, you don't, boys, we're going to keep
these guns. We're not going to register a dad -gum thing, and we're not paying you
a $200 tax stamp. Grab yourself some hammers and head for the beach and pound all
the sand that you want. No, we didn't do that. And that gave them the Cajones to
write the next one and to pass the next one, which was the GCA. And so on and so
on and so forth until states jumped on the little infringement bandwagon and began
passing their idiotic gun control laws, New York in particular. But you know,
it's almost like we're all a bunch of frogs. And you've heard the analogy of a
boiling frog. How to boil a frog. You take a living frog and put him in a pan
full of cold water and slowly turn the heat up incrementally. And he won't even
realize what's going on until it's too late and he's already cooked. That's exactly
what's been going on with gun control in this country. Oh, by the way, I want to
let you know, going to have Rock and Rod Rowl back on the program, and that's
going to drop Tuesday. So make sure you catch the next episode after that. But back
to the subject matter. We all seem to be frogs. We're boiling in the same
government pot as they slowly bring up the heat so we don't notice how far we have
come since the days of our founding that we are where we're at with gun control.
You imagine if one of the founders could come back today and see all of the
infringements that have been heaped upon us, and we're gonna give a little talk
about that towards the end of the program.
But fortunately, there's a lot of action being taken by some constitutional people,
some constitutional elected officials, and they are setting about to repeal a lot of
egregious, and all gun control is egregious, but some really bad ones like down here
in Florida. in Florida out in 2000.
he walks into a school and shoots up a bunch of people a coward of broward that
one police officer scott peterson decided to wait outside and not go in and not go
in and take action he stood outside and did nothing much like a bunch more of them
did new valley just some while later anyway here in florida it was deemed necessary
then to infringe the rights of all 18 to 20 year olds, and somehow that was going
to stop the next shooter, which is a huge steaming pile of bull fertilizer, as we
all know. Now, I have to be friends with one of our Florida reps named Tyler
Soroy, and he has proposed and filed legislation that would reduce the minimum age
back down to 18 years of age, which only makes sense,
especially when 18 -year -olds can go and fight and die for their country. They can
do everything else. They can be tried as an adult if they commit a crime. They can
vote. They can do everything. They can exercise every right that you and I can
except one. And that is the right to purchase a firearm, which is outlined in the
word keep. If I have the right to keep arms, that means I have the right to
obtain arms by any means necessary. Oh, yeah, don't be correcting me yet.
I said any means necessary and I meant it. We'll talk about that in a minute too.
But Tyler is a Brevard County Republican. That's my county. That's the county I live
in. And I really appreciate Tyler. He's a very staunch constitutionalist. He's got
steel cahones, and he doesn't mind letting her rip sometimes when things need to be
said. I've had the honor of sharing the platform with him when he and I and others
were speakers in Second Amendment forums and other things. And so I know his heart.
He's a good guy. But his proposal is HB133.
He filed that,
he passed the Florida House during the past three legislative sessions, but it did
not advance in the Florida Senate because of a bunch of freaking bleep -de -blank and
rhinos there. And you know the existing law exempts law enforcement officers and
correctional officers and service members younger than 21, but the rest of us lowly
peons under the age of 21 don't have that right. I find it sickening that one
group of people is singled out for some sort of legislative retribution for the
crimes of one kid. And but all the other people, the service people and the law
enforcement officers and correctional officers age 18 to 20 have no problem going and
purchasing a firearm. That stinks. That's favoritism. That is favoring one class above
another. And it is wrong. It is not American. It is unconstitutional. So the effort
to restore that legal age for purchasing firearms at age 18 from 18 to 20,
our governor here in Florida, Ron DeSantis, he definitely has thrown his weight
behind that. And It gained momentum during the spring. And I'm referencing an article
here by Mitch Perry, writing for Florida Phoenix.
And they gained momentum this spring when Florida Attorney General James Uthmeyer
announced that he would not defend the law after a federal appeals court again
upheld its constitutionality. There is no constitutionality in the Marjorie Stoneman
Douglas Act. That is a freaking farce. And he did that after it was challenged in
federal court by the NRA. So the NRA unfortunately lost that one.
That means all 18 to 20 year olds in Florida lost that also. And Mr.
Uthmeyer said back in March, not long after Governor DeSantis had appointed him to
office, he said, if the NRA decides to seek further review at SCOTUS at the Supreme
Court, I am directing my office to not defend the law. Men and women old enough to
fight and die for our country should be able to purchase firearms to defend
themselves and their families. And this bears repeating, I know I've said it before.
Take an 18 -year -old or 19 -year -old or 20 -year -old young couple who is married,
they're not allowed by this law in Florida to purchase a firearm to defend
themselves and their families and each other. But just think about that. Oh yeah,
you're old enough to, like I said, exercise all your other rights. Oh, but you
can't buy a gun. We can't trust you to own one age 18 to 20. Well, why not?
Oh, because of the of someone's a little demon spawn down in Marjorie Stoneman
Douglas High School, shooting up a bunch of people. So therefore, all of you are
collectively guilty, and all of you must have that right stripped from you. That is
assinine to the eighth degree. So the NRA has asked the Supreme Court to hear their
challenge to Florida's law, and I hope it does go somewhere. Meanwhile, in other
federal courts, federal appeals court, the Fifth Circuit, they ruled back in January
that the federal law banning FFLs from selling handguns to individuals age 18 to 20
is unconstitutional under the Second Amendment. Amen. Matter of fact,
all gun control laws are unconstitutional. There is not one that passes constitutional
muster. There's not one that can abide a Bruin challenge of text in history.
So the Florida state Republican -controlled, I might add, Senate was consistently
thwarted in 23 and 24 by then -President, Kathleen Pasadomo,
who was, for all intents and purposes, a friend to totalitarians.
And earlier this year, by then sitting president, Ben Alberton, who is a useless
waste of oxygen and should carry around a potted plant, he and Ms. Pasadomo both,
to replenish the oxygen, they are wasting with their existence. They are political
animals.
They do not uphold and defend the Constitution, and I'll just leave that right
there. Now, Uthmire did acknowledge during a press conference at the Palm Beach
County Sheriff's Office a couple of weeks later after that, that changing the law
based on the court's ruling was, quote, not the cleanest situation, and there's
likely cleanup that's going to be needed by the legislature. You Really? Well,
infringement isn't exactly a clean situation either. It costs innocent people who are
simply exercising their rights. It costs them their freedom and lots of money
defending themselves against a corrupt illegal law. That's exactly what it is.
Alberton told reporters in Tallahassee earlier this week, He said,
there are some questions about this new policy and that he was seeking advice from
Florida sheriffs, whose political organization, the Florida Sheriff's Association,
historically has opposed open carry. Let me ask you something, Mr. Alberton.
Why did you not simply seek advice from the constipity blanking tuition?
Why did you start with the Florida Sheriff's Association? Would they pump money into
your campaigns or what? Why do you go there? Why do none of you consult the
Constitution first? Why do you immediately leap to find a precedent or something that
backs up your idiocy? Because that's what a lot of you do. Now, there's been some
questions about open carry, especially with Mr. Alberton, who's a swine. But Mr.
Alberton said, he said, there are some questions about the Capitol, specifically about
how well guns play in or would not play in. So the Attorney General has given some
guidance on this, so we're contemplating all of that and wanting to do what's right
for all Floridians. No, you don't. No, you don't, scumbag. You want to do what's
right for you in your political career. If you wanted to do something right for all
Floridians, you would have consulted the Constitution first. You would have simply
read those simple words shall not be infringed and said, you know what, I cannot
stand behind this. I don't care what the Florida Sheriff's Organization or whatever
it is, association says. So he said, so we'll just continue to think it through.
No, you won't. You'll think it through based on your political, what should I say,
value. Whatever political value it brings to you, that's what you'll consider. He
said, we're again seeking input from various folks who have the expertise to help us
understand and we'll see how it goes. Help you understand what? The Constitution?
I mean, gee, I hate to keep throwing that up there, Mr. Alberton, but it is the
final authority as far as what laws are right and what laws are wrong.
Now, our very own Mr. Luis Valdez of G -O -A, he's the Florida director of G -O -A,
and if you're not a member of G -O -A, be one. Soon, go to gunowners .org and sign
up. Mr. Valdez, He told the Phoenix that the right to open carry has come from the
judicial system, not the Republican supermajority in the legislature. How about that?
Yes, a Republican supermajority was not the people. They were not the people that
brought about this rightful change. It was an appeals court decision. He also said
last Friday, he said, G .O .A. will fight tooth and nail to see this repeal that is
the one on 18 to 20 year olds keeping and bearing arms make sure this repeal
passes he said but with the same leadership still in place the battle against the
rhinos in tallahassee continues we will continue with our simple message of no
compromise amen brother he said we will fight to make sure all Floridians,
age 18 and up, can freely exercise their Second Amendment rights. By the way, Luis
Valdez is going to be on the program again soon. I spoke with him a couple of
days ago, and we're going to be talking about a lot of the legislation that's being
proposed to once again take away open carry in Florida. You mark those people who
are doing that. They are your enemies and they are enemies of the Constitution, not
just the federal constitution, but the Florida Constitution. So,
now this issue of open carry here in Florida, of course, has been making some wild
headlines this week and before. When Publix, the largest supermarket chain in the
state of Florida, they declared that they would comply with state law, And they
said, treating, Matter of a, here's their quote, treating customers with dignity and
respect as a founding belief at Publix, in any instance where a customer creates a
threatening, erratic, or dangerous shopping experience, whether they are openly carrying
a firearm or not, we will engage local law enforcement to protect our customers and
associates. Well, good. There's nothing, excuse me, there's nothing wrong with that
statement at all. They are a private business. They really didn't have to do that.
I mean, technically, they didn't have to allow it, but they're making an open
statement, and there are a lot of people hand -wringing over this,
like Ms. Giffords, as we referenced in the last episode, and they just swear that
the aisles in publics are going to run red with blood. People are going to meet
each other out in the parking out, or better yet, on aisle seven, and they're going
to have Dude.
Why? Well, probably because it's a bunch of bull fertilizer. It's all a bunch of
fear and bluffing and loathing of the Constitution that they hate,
loathe the spies, and abominate. That's why they fight against it all the time. Now,
lately, right before the break, I want to just throw this out, the DOJ, I've told
you before, Pam Blondie is no friend of the Second Amendment. She doesn't even
understand it. She has no idea what it really says. She has no idea the intent of
the founders. And therefore, it's no wonder that they make some really
constitutionally dyslexic statements like, oh, the NFA, the National Firearms Act,
it only burdens non -essential firearms accessories. And this was in reference to a
suppressor case. And we're going to look into an article by Mr. John Crump.
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create your musical identity thank you welcome back to the program in the first
portion we were talking about this slow boil of gun control and it's amazing i tell
you what it i can't believe how many millions and millions of dollars in man -hours
have been spent trying to repeal bad law. And any gun control law is a bad law.
It cannot be squared with the Constitution. It cannot be squared with the text and
history standard. And there is no proof that any gun control law does anything to
keep anybody safe. And I challenge anybody out there to prove me wrong. Now,
I said before that I don't trust Pam Blondie. I don't trust her at all. She's
constitutionally dyslexic. She has no grasp of the true intent and meaning of the
Second Amendment. And therefore, her words when she came out claiming that President
Donald Trump was forming a Second Amendment Preservation Task Force, it rang hollow
with me because she used to be Florida's Attorney General, and she defended the
Marjorie Stoneman -Douglas Act that we referenced in the first part of the program.
She defended it as if it was constitutional. So that's why when President Trump
picked her and tapped her to be the head of the DOJ and the nation's attorney
general, I said, Oh, boy, I'll tell you what, the consternation was thick,
and it's getting even worse now. Now, here's an article by John Crump. It says,
DOJ claims the NFA only burdens, quote, non -essential firearms accessories,
end quote, in this suppressor case. And in the case,
United States v. Peterson, and I'm reading the article here. It involves George
Peterson, a Louisiana man, who was arrested for having an uncerialized suppressor.
Oh my, George, you are the worst of criminals.
You didn't have a magic set of numbers on your suppressor that would help you stay
within the confines of the law. You know, that's what Those numbers are four, right,
George? Yeah, I like George, he's my friend. Suppressors in the United States have
to be serialized and registered with the BATFE under the NFA of 1934.
And why? What role exactly does serializing any firearm or suppressor or anything?
What role does that play play in actual public safety. You think bad guy comes up
to you and he pulls out a homemade gun? You go, well, you can't use that. There's
no serial number on that. And bad guy goes, oh, man, well,
that sucks. Now, how am I going to rob you now? Oh, and of course, I'll be nice
and go here. Use mine.
What good do serial numbers do besides help grant control to the federal government?
The article says the process requires submitting fingerprints, photographs, undergoing
multiple background checks, and paying a $200 tax stamp fee, which, by the way, is
nullified come January. Okay, but you still have to get all the registration crap
done. And Who does that benefit, by the way? Yep, only the ATF.
Who has been caught using that very info to create an illegal facial recognition
database of everybody who's ever registered their NFA firearms. That's exactly what
they've done, and they're doing it still. Oh, people are saying, I'm getting my
suppressor stamps back quick now because they're building a base,
a registry, a facial recognition registry, and they love that little photograph you
sent into them to get that tax stamp. Mr. Peterson was found guilty of NFA
violations. In other words, he was breaking an illegal law, which should nullify the
verdict right off the bat, at the district court level, but appealed the charges to
the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals. The case was heard in front of a three -judge
panel. The three -judge panel rejected the defendant's claim that the NFA restrictions
on suppressors violated the Second Amendment of the U .S. Constitution. Well,
that's probably because it does. The three -judge panel concluded that suppressors are
only firearms accessories and do not enjoy Second Amendment protections,
which puts it at odds with the federal statute and the DOJ's official stance. Well,
how about that? You think the DOJ cares enough about that to do something about
that? Nope. By the way, sites are accessories.
Mm -hmm. Yeah, even flashlights and red dots and things like that.
Those are accessories. You're trying to tell me that those should be forbidden under
the NFA? And just because the NFA or just because the Second Amendment doesn't say
anything about accessories, who are you to say that it's not covered then? It's an
accessory. That means we're free to freaking own it. I mean, if they're the only
accessories, then there should be no law against them at all, you know, at all. If
that's all they are, they're just accessories, then why is there a law against them?
They don't make the gun that they're attached to any more lethal. They don't create
any danger to the general public. What other firearms accessories could then be
restricted based on this ruling? Oh, well, if they follow California's lead, oh, red
dots, lights, offset sites, and things like that, slings, what else could they ban?
Huh? Besides, The very NFA and the filthy godless ATF both declare suppressors to be
firearms, so how is it that the Fifth Circuit can say, well, it's not a firearm,
it's an accessory. Hey, stick to one definition. Don't use multiple definitions for
the same item and bounce back and forth between whichever one's convenient for your
ruling at the moment. Yeah, but that definition of firearm,
of course, was conveniently set aside to facilitate this excruciatingly stupid ruling.
It says after the loss, the FPC or Firearms Policy Coalition stepped in to help out
Mr. Peterson. The group assisted with filing a request for an en banc hearing,
and an en banc hearing is when the full Fifth Circuit bench would hear the case.
And if an on Bonk hearing was granted, the panel's decision would be vacated.
Good, it should be. Now listen, the government has now responded to the request,
arguing that an en banc hearing should not be granted, calling the NFA,
quote, modest restrictions on possessing firearm suppressors as parts of it shall
issue licensing scheme did not violate George Peterson's Second Amendment right.
You show me in text in history of the Second Amendment where the founders ever
claimed that modest restrictions were acceptable. Hmm?
Yeah. You know what modest means? Relatively moderate, limited, or small.
And they're saying this is just a small thing. Really? $200 is a small thing?
Then send me a check for $200. Matter of fact, send everybody in the country a
check for $200. If it's just a small thing? No, yeah.
Mr. Peterson contends that the panel misapplied the Bruin standard. Well, probably
because they did. And they talk about the Bruin analysis consists of two steps. The
first step is whether the conduct is covered under the original text of the Second
Amendment. Yeah, and not just the conduct of the citizen, but also,
much more, much more applicably, the conduct of the legislature and the courts and
law enforcement in enforcing the dead -gum thing. And Mr.
Peterson is among people and other, I'm sorry, among the people and under federal
statute, suppressors are classified as firearms. However, if suppressors are considered
only firearms accessories, the defendant would fail step one. Step two is a
historical analysis of the law through the use of analogs from the founding era.
This burden falls to the state. The DOJ argues that the NFA is consistent with the
Second Amendment. No, it's not. Because Peterson failed to demonstrate a conflict with
the Supreme Court precedent. Screw the Supreme Court precedent.
What about conflict with the text and history of the Second Amendment?
Supreme Court precedents are unreliable. There once was a Supreme Court precedent that
said runaway slaves must be returned to their owner. You want to go by that? Yeah,
precedents don't mean crap. That's why the founders wrote down in plain blipity
-blanking English, the Second Amendment. It's not hard to understand unless,
of course, you've been to college or law school and been educated right on out of
it. Yeah. Now, the brief reads, And by the way, there's so much to unpack in this
corrupt statement. Listen, the questions the panel resolved, however, are narrower than
Peterson claims. The NFA regulations at issue do not target ordinary firearms.
Well, they were ordinary when the law was passed. How come they're not ordinary now?
And by the way, I could prove they're ordinary. Most law enforcement in the country
use fully automatic weapons.
nuclear missile silos in our backyard. I'm not taking it to that idiotic nth degree.
But I have every right to have anti -aircraft cannon in my backyard if I so dead
gum well desire. So they say, it does not target ordinary handguns such a,
I mean ordinary firearms such as handguns. By the way,
you're not allowed to target any firearms, but only non -essential firearm accessories.
Well, who declared them to be non -essential? And if they're non -essential, then the
ATF doesn't get to use them on their weapons, and neither does any law enforcement
agency. And it says that these suppressors are, quote, uniquely adaptable to criminal
misuse. I don't care if it is uniquely adaptable and it's not.
You don't get to say that that's a caveat to give you the authority and somehow
the right to say that they're not covered under the Second Amendment.
They're all, by the way, they're very uniquely adaptable to law enforcement also. And
they're used as hearing protection for common citizens. And matter of fact, the very
ATF that illegally governs and prosecutes the NFA uses them routinely.
As a matter of fact, that criminal agent that murdered Brian Malinowski in his own
home, as I understand it, he was shooting a suppressed weapon. The brief continues,
law -abiding citizens remain free to possess suppressors so long as they register
them. Show me registration in the Second Amendment. Show me that.
You have the right to keep it bare arms as long as you register them with the
federal government or the state government or any other government that wants you to
register them. Huh? He says also recent legislative changes mitigate Peterson's
taxation concerns. of January 1st, 26th, there will be no taxation on making and
transferring suppressors. Okay, then there should be no registration of those items
either because the Supreme Court only upheld the NFA based on Congress's authority to
tax, even though they have no authority to tax a right and the free exercise
thereof. In a statement to Ammo Land, Knox Williams,
President and Executive Director of the American Suppressor Association, criticized the
DOJ's position. It says the AUSA Simpson,
Mr. Simpson has once again demonstrated that he has no understanding of suppressors
or the Second Amendment. To claim that a Federal gun registry is a modest
restriction that does not violate the constitutional rights of law -abiding citizens is
gaslighting at best. To make that claim amid a government shutdown during which NFA
applications are not being processed, if you didn't know that by the way, it is an
irony that cannot be overlooked. The fact of the matter is simple.
Federal gun registries violate the Second Amendment. Not to mention they violate the
protection of law. I'm sorry, that's the wrong one. I'm blanking on it here.
I'm trying to figure out which one it was called. It was in the Hughes Amendment.
The Firearm Owner Protection Act, yes, F -O -P -A. It said, as a -USA Simpson has
acknowledged in previous briefs, suppressors are protected by the Second Amendment.
They are not non -essential accessories. They are a protected device in common use
that millions of law -abiding Americans use to safeguard their hearing, not to mention
safeguard their homes. I use a suppressed carbine in my home because it's better to
use than a 12 -gauge shotgun, especially during a home invasion. He said They are
uniquely, suppressors are not uniquely adaptable to criminal misuse. They are uniquely
essential to preserving one of our five senses while exercising our Second Amendment
rights. To argue otherwise is to spread blatant misinformation. And might I add,
that blatant misinformation, the intellectual dishonesty and the flagrant violations of
common sense. They've all been weaponized against the right of the people to keep in
bare arms, and the DOJ once again proves that it is not the protector of those
rights. I'm going to close by bringing you a blurb from an article by Dan Wass,
who has been on this program before. You should catch his program on YouTube, the
loaded mic, if they haven't kicked them off again. And I'm just going to read a
little blurb from the last portion of the article where he says,
So how did it come to this? In other words, all the gun control. Simple. We got
complacent. We let the anti -gun crowd twist tragedies into opportunities to strip
rights from law -abiding citizens. We let them write the script while we stayed
quiet, hoping it wouldn't get worse. Well, it has. And it will continue until we
wake up and fight back. We don't have the luxury of silence anymore. I won't leave
my grandchildren a country where freedom is a memory and tyranny is the norm. I
don't want to be the generation that stood by while the Constitution was gutted and
the government grabbed all the power. The good news, we still have a chance. Right
now, today, we can push back. We must push back. Every gun law on the books must
be taken down. Every single one is an infringement. It's time to stop compromising.
The truth is, the Second Amendment means exactly what it says. No fine print, no
exceptions, no permission needed, and no infringements.
By the way, he also adds, ask yourself, what would our founding fathers say,
especially if we're, let's say Thomas Jefferson and John Adams and those others,
what if they could be teleported back in time or forward in time to now and see
us stand there at a gun counter, filling out a 4473 form,
waiting, God knows how long for a background check, and going through all of the
nonsense we have to jump through just to purchase a firearm and just to free the
exercise a right we were born with. What do you think they would say to that?
Well, I think a lot of you have said it very succinctly, and I might add this
also. The founders would be stacking bodies by now. Yeah,
well, I don't know if they really would have been doing that, but certainly there
would have been major consternation on their part, and they'd be wondering, how in
the heck did y 'all let this get this far? We left you a constitution with plain
English, and it very plainly says the right of the people to keep in bare arms
shall not be infringed, and you've allowed your government to do Exactly that.
I can only imagine what they would have to say to us, and it probably would not
be too kind. And you know what? I can't say I blame them. If you want a modern
day equivalent, what about all those brothers and sisters laying in national
cemeteries who sacrificed life and limb ostensibly to keep us free and to uphold and
defend the Constitution? What would they be saying right now? Maybe,
hey, how about not let any more these politicians walk through our cemetery and piss
on our graves by infringing the rights we die to protect? That's what I'd be saying
if I was laying in one of those graves, that's for sure. So people, we have a
duty before us. We have a country to save, as you'll hear the closing music come
on here in a minute from Mr. Norm Maynor, our producer. We have a country to save.
I thank God for men like Tyler Soroy and others who we referenced in the first
part of the program who are doing their best to repeal and do it the right way,
of course, because it is the right way, go through the proper channels to try to
repeal it before we have to take up arms and say, okay, we're done, nope, you're
done, nope, don't even try to enforce it, you will spark a war. Yeah, it is the
right way to do it, and we are doing that now. You need to be part of it, and
you can be part of it by joining GOA and others, but GAA primarily because they
are the no -compromise gun advocates and Second Amendment advocates fighting for you
not only in Washington, D .C., but on every state level throughout the union.
Join them day. Keep in contact with your reps. Stay trained up, stay armed up,
and never forget. Incoming rounds always have the right of way. Royce out.