OBBB and the NFA: What Did we Get, and What Happens Now?

Now that the One Big Beautiful Bill has been passed in the House and Senate and awaits President Trump's all-but-certain signature, the questions now are "What did we actually get?" and "What happens now?"

Royce answers those question in this episode, listen and share!

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straight radio podcast. Okay, let's dive right on in. The one big beautiful bill was
received with much mixed emotion. A lot of people think that it did not go far
enough. And I'm one of those people. I think just nixing the tax on certain NFA
items is only half -hearted, but there's light at the end of that tunnel.
So just bear with me for just a couple of minutes as we talk about this. I would
have loved to have seen the NFA ripped from the law books and used to light cigars
of the entire Congress all around. It's an abomination. It always has been an
abomination. It has no constitutional reason to exist.
It did nothing but change the balance of physical power. Yes, it changed the balance of physical violence and the ability to wage it. Now,
when you the word "violence" you might think, or Royce, you're talking about being violent. Well, there is such a thing as "good violence" and such a thing as "bad violence." Bad violence is when someone assaults you to try to impose their will upon you. Good violence is when you turn around and beat the living dickens out of them in such a fashion that they'd never want to try that crap again. So there's defensive violence or defensive force, as well as felonious violence or felonious force. So keep that in mind as we go through here. But the NFA has been the bane
of our existence here since 1934. Roosevelt,
who had that passed on his watch, used all manner of lies and the usual crap
that's used today to try to pass gun control using criminal violence as the
justifiable so called reason to walk all over the rights of the people and their
justified ownership of NFA weapons, machine guns and the like. And we'll talk more
about those different categories in just a little bit. There was actually an
attempted assassination or so -called, that Mr. Roosevelt tried to use to further
drive home the necessity of passing this gun control law known as the National
Firearms Act. Yes, the mayor of Miami was shot and killed right beside him in an
open vehicle. And it was the mayor of Miami that was targeted in that,
not Roosevelt, but Roosevelt made it out that he was the target of an attempted
assassination.
that is. They pass that through on the fears that criminals use these guns and they
do terrible things with these guns. Yeah, they do it to each other mostly, let them
kill each other. Oh, but no, because these criminals did bad things with guns, you
people can't be trusted with them, was eventually and essentially what was being
stated to the American people with the passage of the NFA. The firearms that were
included in the National Firearms Act of 1934 were machine guns,
short -barreled rifles, short -barreled shotguns, suppressors, destructive devices,
and what they call AOW, which is an any other weapon, which is a lot like novelty
firearms and such. And matter of fact, Luis Valdez of GOA, who was on the program
a couple of episodes ago, talked about various instances and various examples of what
an AOW is, like a cane gun, or some sort of a hidden type gun,
hidden into another type of weapon or something, like in a billy club. There's billy
clubs that have multiple 22 caliber cylinders on them that to be fired each
individually. So that would be an AOW. So those were the weapons that were targeted
by the National Firearms Act. They had no business passing such a law.
The false claim set forth by all those who proposed it and were proponents thereof
was that the National Firearms Act, we're not trying to ban any weapons.
We're not trying to take them away from you. That was the lie. Yes, they were.
They were trying to do it through taxation. Yes, taxation can be a weapon,
as if you didn't already know that.
The proponents of the NFA claimed they only intended to just impose a little tax on
certain class of the firearms, but not all of them, of course, and we're not going
to ban them outright. Well, yes, essentially you are by putting such a heavy tax on
them that nobody could possibly freaking afford them. Yes, you are banning weapons
via taxation. Just because you called it a tax, doesn't matter. The end
of it. Of course, that was their, that was their goal the whole time. Anybody with
the brain of a boiled cabbage knows this. $200 tax stamp back in those days was
equivalent to five grand. Okay. $5 ,000 back in that day.
Who could afford $5 ,000 worth of tax stamp for a Tommy gun or for any of the
other guns that you could order literally via Sears and Roebuck and have it
delivered right to your front freaking door back in those days. So yes,
no matter what they try to tell you, no matter what they try to say, it was an
attempted ban on various types of weapons that the government did not want the
people to possess. They didn't, this had nothing to do with disarming criminals.
If they really wanted to wipe out the criminal underworld of their day, they could
have done it. Maybe they were too much in bed with some of them, but that's a
whole different story.
The machine guns that were targeted by the NFA were anything that could fire
multiple rounds with the single press of the trigger. The vaunted tommy Tommy Gun or
the Thompson Submachine Gun comes to mind. That was the one that was prized by Al
Capone and his boys back in the day. And believe it or not, they didn't line up
for tax stamps after the 1934 gun control at the National Firearms Act was passed.
Somehow they still managed to get all their hands on these kind of guns, while us
lowly peons just couldn't seem to swing it. They still bought suppressors. They still
bought anything they wanted. They created the underground market. They stocked the
underground market with various thefts and other things. And their markets continued
to thrive while we the people suffered. We were not allowed to own the same guns
the government did. And that's wrong. So it targeted machine guns.
It also targeted short barreled rifles under the
intentions and therefore you are going to be nailed to the barn door and imprisoned
and fined heavily just for owning a rifle with a barrel less than 16 inches not to
mention short barreled shotguns that had to have a barrel of over 18 inches
according to the NFA those also were frowned upon by the media and by the Anti
-Second Amendment people as being nothing but a criminal weapon, the only reason
anybody would ever want to cut a shotgun barrel down was to inflict as much damage
on as many people in as short a time as possible, does this sound familiar? And
that's why they said we couldn't have short -barreled shotguns. The entire overall
length of the shotgun had to be at least 26 inches are longer. Oh, what about
suppressors? You understand that the ATF still calls suppressors silencers even though
they are nothing of the sort? Any of you out there that shoot with suppressors,
no good and well what I'm talking about, suppressors do not silence a weapon in the
least. It really doesn't and matter of fact with some silencers I still wear hearing
protection because it's still just a little bit too heavy on those decibel cracks to
my ears. Royce, you can't hear anyway. Yes, that's right, and I want to save as
much of my hearing as I have left for as long as possible, okay?
So they were called silencers, and I think they were called silencers for a reason,
and it was for propaganda's sake. So the ATF could say, well, if you have a
silencer, you only have it for one reason. You want to hide the report of your
gunshot. And that's because you want to kill somebody secretly. That was the idea
and the notion propagated by all the proponents of the NFA. And then they had
another device called destructive devices. And that category was actually added in
1968. It was part of their Crime Control and Safe Streets Act of 1968.
Matter of fact, they even attached the word omnibus to it. Every time the federal
government adds omnibus to anything, you can know it's ominous in regards to your
rights. Yeah, they added that in 1968, and that also included that restricted the
sale of any type of explosive device or any type of explosive composition or
material. And any gun with a bore of over 0 .5 inches, that's half an inch,
which is the 50 caliber. Of course, that didn't include shotguns, which were
considered to have legitimate sporting purposes. And yes, that was the language.
Does this sound familiar? Yeah, there's nothing new under the sun, is there? So then
they also added the category A -O -W, and we already talked about that, the any
other weapon category. Now, they claimed that how the NFA was supposed to work in
theory, of course, was that, well, the NFA doesn't prohibit the sale or the
manufacture or the transferring of any of the weapons in the original bill.
The requirement was that a tax stamp for $200, essentially five grand back then,
and proper paperwork had to go along with each sale or each transfer of any weapon
or weapons included on the NFA roster. And at the time of the act was written into
law, the tax was $200, And it has not changed since then. The concept here was
that the tax would be so burdensome and so onerous and so heavy that it would
prohibit the manufacturer's sale or transfer of these weapons because of their
financial impossibility. What really happened was an entirely new level of bureaucracy
was created within the federal government and of course it did nothing at all to
inhibit the underground trade, the criminal trade and firearms, the criminal trade in
any of the firearms or the suppressors covered by that NFA,
that same National Firearms Act. It did nothing again, nothing shocking that gun
control started out not being able to stop bad people, but still today it cannot
stop bad people from getting guns. I know it's shocking, isn't it? I mean, how many
more models of failure do you Democrats need before you understand that gun control,
if you're really presenting it as a way to enhance public safety and suppress
violent crime, how much more, how many more examples of failure do you need? I know
that's a rhetorical question, of course. So what actually happened
people to screw that. I'm not a Biden by that. And you know what? We need, we
need that same attitude today. Yeah. It needs to happen today also. So the
department of the treasury, of course, which was charged with enforcing the NFA,
I mean, what could possibly go wrong when the IRS is enforcing something? Yeah.
Yeah. Yeah. They, uh, The Department of Treasury didn't have the manpower,
the personnel, the people that they could staff in the field as administrators or
enforcers to effectively enforce this new law. So when their enforcement did begin,
and in earnest even, the original method employed by the Treasury Department was to
simply gather enough evidence to pass on to state judicial officials who would then
prosecute the case in state courts, not federal courts. But that method was nullified
in 1968. If you know what happened in 1968, you're already nodding your head.
Yes, that was the passage of the Gun Control Act of 1968. Now the Supreme Court
squashed this practice being used by the government as being unconstitutional under
the 5th Amendment of the Constitution and their ruling made the NFA literally
unenforceable the way that they had been administering the law. So what did the
government do? Well they reacted the way the government always does whenever they
lose power, they try to seize it back. And so they reacted with Title II of the
Gun Control Act of 1968. And they passed into law what they called a series of
amendments to the National Firearms Act, a lot like ATF's rule changes.
Yeah, we're gonna make this enhanced and make sure we can really use this and and
bring it to Barragas, anybody we want. No, not criminals, anybody. Yet that includes
you, law -abiding citizens. You're all now criminals if you have these things as far
as the government was concerned. So they passed a series of amendments to the
National Firearms Act, but in reality what happened in 1968 with the Gun Control
Act, which, by the way, was modeled identically to the 1935 Nazi weapons law.
And if you never heard me talk about on this program, it's way back at the
beginning, probably several years back, where you will find this episode and I may
go through it again. But Christopher Dodd, many of you knew that fat,
disgusting, sleazeball, that sexual pervert who passed away,
I don't know, a couple of decades ago now. His dad, who was also a filthy Democrat
communist named Thomas J. Dodd, was actually a Democrat senator who was one of the
prosecutors at Nuremberg. And he brought back with him a copy of the weapons law
crafted by the Nazis in 1935. He brought it back to our country,
took it to the Library of Congress and had them translated for him and then use
that translation to craft the Gun Control Act of 1968 and propose it as legislation
for the sake of, guess what? Yeah, for what reason do you think he promoted and
proposed this? Starts with a P, it's a phrase, PS, okay? Public safety.
Public safety. Yes, it's for your good and your safety, dear public,
that we strip you of rights you were born with. Now, you tell me what Mr.
Thomas J. Dodd had in mind as he went to such great lengths to craft such a
flagrantly unconstitutional law. You tell me what he had in mind. Something tells me
he secretly was envious of the Nazis and their methods of extreme control all of
which began with gun control. The stated objective of the gun control act of 1968
was to allegedly fix the problem in the enforcement and prosecution of these gun
controls which were illegal. The single most important of this quote unquote amendment
process was to remove any way for any owner of any unregistered or untaxed NFA
weapon to legally register that firearm after the passage of this amendment.
So they cut off a wafer. In other words, they made it to where you had to turn
it in. You You had to destroy it. You had to make it inoperable or you had to
turn it in because after that point You could not register it anymore as far as
the government was concerned But somehow criminals kept getting their hands on these
now excessively taxed firearms Of course that engendered more fears being raised
against criminals getting NFA guns and once again Congress said, "Well, we need to
fix this." Yes, criminals are still getting guns in the spot of the fact we told
them they couldn't have them. Shocking. They went around to pass the Firearm Owners
Protection Act of 1986 with, that was by the way, such an ironic and laughably
hypocritical title. It was anything but Firearm Owner Protection Act. They tightened
the restriction on the ownership and the manufacture and the sale of these NFA
weapons under the National Firearms Act. It included broadening and expanding the
definitions of certain things like suppressors or silencers and they made it also
include the parts or other items that are intended for the assembly or fabrication
of a silencer or suppressor. I call them suppressors, they don't silence anything.
But just owning the baffles that are fixed inside silen - suppressors,
there, I wouldn't say it again. Just having those baffles or end caps or threading
devices was considered ownership of a suppressor. Yes,
because You owned the amines and the material to transform it into one so you were
automatically charged with a future crime for all intents and purposes and you will
be arrested and charged in possibly fine $250 ,000 a given 10 years in state and
federal penitentiary.
They also amended the prohibitions on the transfer and the possession of fully
automatic weapons, except of course for government agencies, oh no,
they could still own them. And as we know, the government can be far more trusted
with fully automatic weapons than we lowly peons can, huh? Yeah,
they also amended exemptions for the NFA weapons that were possessed before May 19th,
1986. And basically, the effects of these changes and these amendments piled on to
the Gun Control Act of 1968. It virtually froze the manufacture of those NFA style
weapons, since no new NFA rostered guns could be sold or transferred except two
police agencies and government agencies. The supply pretty much all but stopped dead.
Yeah. All kinds of, all the NFA items, the manufacture of them ground to a halt
and the prices began to decline on the NFA weapons that we know of today that are
still available and those weapons that were made be those fully automatic weapons
made before 1986 are at such peak levels that it's stupidly expensive to own some
of them today. Only super rich people are able to afford them, which means only
super rich people are able to purchase them. Well I'm going to drop a bomb on you
here. Any lawful, peaceable American in the United States of America has every right
to own one of those without paying a tax for it and without registering it. But
the government doesn't think so. Now frankly, I think all the manufacturers should
have at that point right there just cut off all federal and state police agencies
from purchasing these weapons too. They should have told them flat out, "Nope, we're
not selling them to you because you are the ones enforcing this unconstitutional law
against the people. And if the people can't have these guns, then you can't have
these guns. That's what should have happened, but it didn't. So fast forward to
today. And the passing of the one big beautiful bill where most of us hoped that
the NFA would be struck down, and I was hoping for that too.
I would have loved to have seen more than just the $200 tax stamp alleviated, but
there's a bright light at the end of the tunnel for us on this. Because the issue
created for the civilian disarmament cartels and other haters of the Second Amendment
by the passing of the one big beautiful bill is that now the National Firearms Act
and the Gun Control Act, their right to exist is actually nullified because it was,
like Obamacare, a tax. You understand that the Supreme Court back in 1937,
they upheld the NFA solely as a quote unquote lawful tax because that was the only
way they were able to make it stay in place. They said it's a lawful tax.
Congress has the lawful authority to tax and they allowed it to stay in place
because it was a tax. Okay, in spite of the fact that no government is allowed to
pass a tax that would infringe our rights, they did anyway, but now that that tax
that tax has been removed.
They think about what that means now. If that tax has gone,
the registration of all of these NFA items is now unconstitutional and they violate
the Firearm Owner Protection Act, which also said the government is not allowed to
craft registries of firearms in the United States. The only ones that were exempt
from it were those under the NFA, because those were taxed,
of course. They were, the NFA was seen as a tax. It was excused as a tax,
but now that tax is gone. And now the right of the GCA and the NFA to exist has
been undermine and stricken and all of the good big gun control anti -gun control
groups, the pro -second amendment groups like GOA and others are lighting a match to
it. They are filing lawsuits against the NFA now and wait till you hear about this
and you will hear about this when we come back right after a brief time out. Don't
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first portion of the program. We were talking about the NFA and how it was passed
as a tax and it was upheld as a tax even by the Supreme Court back in 1937 or
so. Anyway, it was upheld as a tax but now that tax is gone.
It has been stricken by the passing of the one big beautiful bill and with the
president's signature, it undermines the NFA to catastrophic proportions.
And when I say catastrophic, I mean for them, not for us. And as I said,
as we were going into the break, multiple pro -second amendment groups are filing
lawsuits now on the back of this recent passing of the one big beautiful bill.
And matter of fact, if you're a member of GOA, you probably already saw this. And
if you're not a member of GOA, well, you get off your butt and get your wallet
out and join GOA. They are the no -nonsense, no -compromised bulldogs up there in
Washington, D .C. They are always up there, they are always at work, not just in
Washington, but in all 50 states. And they are kicking butt and taking names. All
their money, they don't put out a pretty magazine. They don't put out any kind of
special stuff. All they do is attack gun control laws, night and day,
day in, day out, join GOA. But at the GOA website,
gunowners .org, you will see this title. GOA to file one big,
beautiful.
or the FRAC, Silencer Shop and BNT USA are announcing that we will file a federal
lawsuit to dismantle provisions of the National Firearms Act after the one big
beautiful bill is signed into law by President Trump and goes into effect.
GOA's team in Washington has been working behind the scenes with Congress since the
November, 2024 election to fully repeal the NFA, but congressional Republicans allowed
an unelected bureaucrat to block the GOA back provision. By the way, I wanna know
why. All you so -called Republicans up there, I tell you, so many of you are such
rank disappointments. You really are, you've sold us out. I'm not sure what your
price was, but you sold us out. You could have done very good things for the
Constitution and for the people. You didn't. You let one single person who is
sitting in a position that cannot be found anywhere in the Constitution of the
United States of America, and you let that silly heifer hold this thing up. You did
nothing. You let her block those GOA -backed provisions trying to undo the NFA.
I want to know why. This either speaks to your ignorance of the Second Amendment or
it speaks to your corruption and neither dad gum won is acceptable if you're an
elected official. Neither ignorance nor corruption are satisfactory excuses for using
the federal government to assault the rights of the people. So there was a trigger
here. And what triggered the challenge, GOA's challenge on,
you know, against the NFA was the passage of the bill. So they were already sitting
there waiting for this to go. They had it ready one way or the other. They said,
okay, worst case scenario, we don't get the NFA stricken, but we get the tax
knocked off. Okay, good. Because that lays the foundation and the groundwork for
really attacking the NFA because it was only upheld by the Supreme Court as a
lawful tax. Now the tax is gone. That means the NFA is now unlawful.
I love it. I love it. It got them coming or going. Got them coming in one way,
going out the other. They can't see it coming. They're about to get hit and get
hit hard. The article continues instead the House and Senate settled for reducing the
NFA's $200 excise tax to $0 on suppressors, short barreled rifles,
short barreled shotguns and any other weapons or AOWs, teeing up GOA's legal
challenge.
GOA's one big beautiful lawsuit will ask the courts to strike down the NFA's absurd
new zero tax and registration scheme for certain suppressors and firearms with short
barrels. Take it all the way to machine guns. That's my advice. Go all the way
with it. In the 1930s, the Supreme Court only narrowly upheld the NFA solely as a
taxed statute, not as a firearms regulatory law. In Sanzisky versus United States in
1937, the Supreme Court, erroneously, ruled the NFA was permissible under Congress's
taxing power. But once the tax is reduced to zero, the constitutional justification
for the law collapses. Yes, it does, you better believe it does. This is awesome.
For all of you out there, and yes, I was one of them that was fuming, everybody
to go all torches and pitchforks and build a gallows in Washington Square, they
don't give up hope just yet. All they did was walk themselves into another trap and
this one is going to be really hard to squirm out of.
GOA has also long argued that the NFA's registration mandates violate the Second
Amendment and are an unconstitutional overreach of federal power. Amen and amen.
With the tax mechanism gutted and reduced to an unworkable state by Congress,
GOA's forthcoming legal challenge will aim to strike down what remains of this
obsolete and abusive law. Yeah, I'd say good to that. Good. But make sure you
encompass all military weapons in your challenge. You know, in short, the entirety of
the NFA.
laws on the books. With the tax struck down by Congress, the rest of the NFA is
standing on air. We're ready to take this fight to the courts and finally end the
federal registry once and for all. Amen and amen. Hey, this is another reason for
you to join the NFA. I mean, I'm not the NFA, the GOA. Join GOA now as they
fight to assault the NFA and bring us out from under its dictations.
Join 'em now. Hit pause, go to gunowners .org and join GOA.
And in the note, any kind of a note you put on there, say I heard about you on
the Shooting Straight Radio podcast, Roy said to join GOA, so here I am.
Okay, make sure you mention me on that. Aidan Johnston, who is GOA's director of
federal affairs, issued a statement also. He said, "GOA and our grassroots activists
fought tooth and nail to fully gut the NFA and came closer than anyone else." By
the way, a quick throwback to the last episode where Henry and Tom's River,
New Jersey asked about one particular gun rights group that is very obscure and only
comes out of the woodwork when there's heavy legislation out there. And the only
time they come out of the woodwork, it seems, is to denigrate and denounce all the
other anti -gun control groups, like GOA and Second Amendment Foundation and Firearms
Policy Coalition. And that's how they, I guess, assume they're going to rake in
donations by decrying GOA and others as half -hearted and not ready to take the full
fight to anybody and they're not, they didn't really, they compromised and didn't
really want to do away with the NFA. Well, that's a bunch of crap. And if you
remember one of those organizations saying that, turn in your car and tell them to
go pound sand. That's a bunch of garbage. The GOA is, they are 24 /7 helping to
defend your rights. I can't say this enough." So, to finish Mr.
Aidan Johnson's quote there, he said, "GOA and our grassroots activists fought tooth
and nail to fully gut the NFA and came closer than anyone else. In the 91 years,
this infringement has been on the books to getting it repealed. Congress should never
have shifted responsibility to the courts to strike down the Archaic NFA Act of
1934. Now, GOA will do what Republicans would not do and that has continued to
fight to repeal the NFA. Amen and amen to that. Sam Paradis on behalf of the Board
for Gun Owners Foundation issued the following statement. The Supreme Court has made
clear that the NFA survives only as a tax law. Once the president signs this bill,
and the tax disappears, the registry becomes an unconstitutional relic.
GOF is prepared to go to court and challenge every remaining provision that violates
the Second Amendment. And, Royce contends, every provision violates the Second
Amendment.
Jameen Column, owner and CEO of Palmetto State Armory, issued the following statement.
"Palmetto State Armory remains unwavering in our dedication to ensuring freedom is
within reach for every American. The Hearing Protection Act, or the HPEA, and the
Stop Harassing Owners of Rifles today, short act, are essential steps in our ongoing
mission. This commitment drives us to continue to fight to lift the heavy
restrictions placed on American gun owners by the NFA. We at Palmetto State Armory
together with our affiliates proudly aligned with GOA, FRAC, and our partners in this
endeavor. Our mission may have, I'm sorry, our mission has always been and will
always be to champion freedom and uphold our constitutional rights.
Travis White, president and CEO of Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition, or
FRAC, also issued a statement. He said for almost a century, the NFA has imposed
unconstitutional burdens on the American people under the pretextual guise of tax
collection. Congress's recent decision to reduce the corresponding tax for most
articles covered under that act to zero dollars leaves no further doubt as to the
indefensible character of that act. FRAC commands Congress for reducing the tax to
zero dollars for those numerous articles as we hope that this will be a major step
towards regulating this egregious law to its rightful place in the waste bin of
history.
done. Also, the CEO of B &T USA, Juan John Scott,
issued the following statement. He said for nearly a century,
"American gun owners have been compelled to navigate the restrictive boundaries set by
the NFA. B &T USA is delighted to join forces with GOA and its industry partners in
a unified effort to finally abolish this unconstitutional infringement on our rights.
Together, we are committed to restoring and protecting the freedoms that are
rightfully ours. Well, I like that. I like the GOA is fighting this lawsuit,
but what the federal government needs to contend with now is also a plethora of
other lawsuits coming from Second Amendment Foundation, Firearms Policy Coalition,
the National Rifle Association, and the American Suppressor Association,
they release a statement that they are also bringing lawsuit against the NFA.
They want the, of course not just the taxes eliminated on them,
they want the NFA gone? Well, by striking the tax, they have laid the foundation
for the demise of the NFA. And even if fully automatic weapons are not part of the
next challenge, and they're not part of the rostered guns that are given back to
the American people as rightful to own without a tax stamp, it still lays the
foundation to take those down eventually. I bet you that probably there's a lot of
people that in their lifetime thought that the NFA would never ever be challenged to
the level that it's at now, but yet here we are. So, there is light at the end
of the tunnel. There is the foundation being laid for the demise of the NFA. So,
I don't think it's time to load up and don Don Takvest and talk, I can't even
trip over my tongue here. Don Takvest and other such things and go all torches and
pitchforks just yet. Thank God for groups like GOA, FPC and the Second Amendment
Foundation and others who are out there fighting the fight and you need to be part
of that fight. Join them now. Quit sitting on your butt, get up off your but get
your wallet out, get your credit card out, go to gunowners .org and you sign up.
And you tell them I heard about it, GOA on the Shooting Straight Radio podcast. You
be part of the fight, get into it. If you want the NFA repealed, you be part of
it. You can be part of it, you be part of it. And you be part of the change by
contacting your reps, Stay in constant contact with them, let them know how you
feel, and remind them of their constitutional duties to uphold and defend the
Constitution. And you do so also by being a regular keeper and bearer.
Once you leave your home, make sure you have at least one, well, make it three,
good firearms on your person, at least, and make sure you have extra magazines, and
make sure you never forget that incoming rounds always have the right -of -way. Roy
Sound.