Upholding Unconstitutional Laws Ruins Innocent Lives

1st.  A 28-year-old man in Pinellas Park in Florida was arrested for possession of an "SBR" (a, AR pistol) and is now facing 15 years in State Prison and possibly facing federal charges also.

2nd.  Robert Cekada, the new head of ATF and a man devoid of Constitutional comprehension, is the smiling fox being welcomed into the henhouse, and too many 2nd Amendment advocates are being lulled into continued acceptance of the ATF's unacceptable tyranny simply because it is being packaged as a "kinder, gentler" tyranny.

Royce is not kind to law enforcement officials who willfully violate the rights of the People while trashing their oath to uphold and defend the Supreme Law, and this fact is fully exhibited in this episode.

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This is all about firearms with a heavy emphasis on the Second Amendment and all things pertaining
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going to try to get through this the best i can but if i say some words really funny sounding uh
take it in stride and i sure will appreciate that let's dive right on in before this this thing
gets too much closer um I'm probably going to tick off a lot of you in law enforcement today.
I'm sorry. Things have to be said. Because I've just about had my fill of constitutionally dyslexic
police officers who do not have the honor and the patriotic fortitude to honor their oath to uphold
and defend the Constitution. You guys swore that oath. And an oath used to be as good as a
contract. Matter of fact, it was enforceable in a court of law. But apparently you guys take oaths,
well, not as seriously today. You swore an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution of the United
States and to defend the Bill of Rights. And the Bill of Rights Amendment 2 is very plain.
And in that Bill of Rights, I'm sorry, in that amendment, That is very plain.
The government is strictly forbidden from infringing the right of the people to keep and bear arms.
There are no provisos. There are no exceptions. There is no exception to state governments.
You know, I've had people say, well, that was the Bill of Rights only pertained to the federal
government. The 14th Amendment clarified that when it very plainly said that no state shall enact
or enforce any law that contravenes the rights of the people. Now,
I paraphrased that, but anyway, I want to know how many of you out there wearing the badge and
driving around in your patrol car have any constitutional sensibility at all? Hmm?
I want to know. Because worse than that are the... out there that absolutely ignore the supreme law
and have no compunction about ruining the lives of innocent Americans.
Too many states in this union have passed constitutionally illegal laws and their officers don't
just go along with it. Well, I've got to enforce my state laws. No, your primary oath.
is to uphold and defend the Constitution. That enjoys supremacy over the laws of your state.
The laws of your state come second. You should have the stones, the testicular fortitude,
to look at a law and say, you know what, I cannot in good conscience enforce that. That violates
the rights of the people to do A, B, or C, or D, whatever. This kind of woefully unconstitutional
trash like these laws that are adopted into various states,
and even down here in Florida where there are still laws on the books against owning short
-barreled rifles and things like that without that also vaunted special tax stamp.
And I want to know why. I want to know why primarily.
I know I'm trying to get way ahead of myself here, and I need to breathe. If you guys and gals in
blue refused to uphold and defend unconstitutional laws and instead behave in favor of the supreme
law, all of these constitutionally repugnant laws would have withered on the vine by now,
but you allowed yourselves to be the teeth in these laws.
Regardless of how many... innocent, productive lives ye might happen to ruin.
And that pisses me off no end, especially in light of an article I received from Lee Williams this
morning titled, When Florida Police Act Like They're Working in California.
And I started reading this and my blood got hot. So go ahead and brace yourselves because Royce is
going to launch on this one. And here's the article. Travis E. Smith,
aged 28, was charged with unlawful possession of a short-barreled rifle.
What made it unlawful? He didn't have a tax stamp. Ooh,
that scallywag. Why, doesn't he know not having a tax stamp is a danger to public safety?
Yeah, somehow that makes sense in some idiot's mind somewhere. But he faces up to 15 years in state
prison now and a $10,000 fine. And those are not federal charges,
by the way. Those are state charges. And I assure you that the police department that arrested him,
which is Pinellas Park Police, and I'm going to make you boys famous. I guarantee you,
you scumbags turned around and called the ATF too, and I bet the ATF's now going to come on and
pile on. I bet you idiot amount of money. I believe this story is probably going to develop a
little bit worse later for Mr. Smith. But he was spending... On Sunday,
July 5th, he was at his grandmother's property. They were shooting out there. It's a rural area,
and it's about an hour north of his home in Pinellas Park. And they had targets.
They shot two of his Glocks, his 12-gauge shotgun, his Sausselmatz 9mm pistol,
a Ruger .22, and an AR-10 that he'd built himself. And what he thought, or he believed to be,
was a Springfield AR pistol. But after dropping his friend off, Mr.
Smith was coming close to his home around midnight when he was stopped by a Pinellas Park police
officer, and he pulled into a restaurant parking lot, and the officer said, well,
you had a dim tag light. So what? Could you not read his freaking tag in the glare of your
headlights? Why was this worth pulling him over in the first place?
Why not just simply say your tag light's a little dim? Well, it turns out because he's got a 40
-year-old station wagon and it uses the old bulbs instead of the modern LED lights.
But he didn't question the officer when he did that. He should have,
I think. But anyway, that's neither here nor there. My question is, officer,
why could you not read his tag in your headlights? Even though you know good and stinking well that
his tag light was only dim and not non-existent, like you later lied and charged him with.
This was not a safety issue. A tag light being out is not a safety issue.
It's not like a brake light is out, or a blinker is out, or a headlight is out.
It's a tag light, and it wasn't out. It was merely dim.
Smith's buddy happened to be a medical marijuana card holder, and he has a valid one,
but he unfortunately left an empty marijuana container in the back seat, which the officer saw.
And of course, by the process of questioning and deduction, probably figured out that Smith did not
have a card and that the container there, and as I understand it, I think those containers...
have the identification of the person who has the prescription. Some of the people I've talked to
about it said, yeah, that's the case, man. It's clearly marked. Okay. So as far as I'm concerned,
the officer should have told him, hey, call your buddy up and tell him I need to talk to him. And
maybe I'd give him a good ringing out for, hey man, you know, you just left this marijuana case in
your buddy's car. He could have been charged with that. Now, what's the matter with you? You
shouldn't do stuff like that. But no, instead, he used it as an excuse to search the vehicle.
And of course, he said he was going to do it with or without Mr. Smith's consent.
And yeah, any excuse to violate the Fourth Amendment. That's what you boys do these days.
I'm watching you. I see a lot of this stuff. I see how you just totally have nothing but disdain
for a right that was purchased with blood. We have a right to be secure in our persons and personal
effects, but apparently you guys don't think so. You think once we're on the road, we're fair game,
and any lie or trick you can use to get access to our vehicle,
you just think that's fair game. Matter of fact, There was, what is it, a Tennessee state trooper
or a Kentucky state trooper, don't remember which one, recently made famous because he basically
said, you have no rights when you're on the road. Bull fertilizer, fat boy.
And yes, I'm referring to the fat scumbag who wears the badge there that said that.
He had a very unattractive picture, by the way. Anyway.
Smith said he wasn't too worried about it, he had nothing to hide, and he began the search, and it
took three hours for that cop to go through his vehicle. Why three hours? Then the cop called for a
backup, and then it was several more hours, and nearly a dozen more officers arrived.
Why? Is there no real crime happening in Pinellas Park?
Most of the cops wore uniforms, according to Mr. Smith, but one of them showed up wearing a ball
cap and a face mask. Why?
They ran the serial numbers, not just to make sure they weren't stolen. None of them were.
Everything was cool. But everything changed when they found Mr. Smith's AR pistol.
They took out a measuring tape. They measured the barrel. They opened it up, I guess. And Smith
assumes it was to check to make sure it had not been converted to full auto. And it had not. And
after the officers had talked together for hours, according to Mr. Smith,
one of them walked over, handcuffed him, and placed him in a squad car, read him his Miranda
rights, asked him a bunch of questions about the pistol. Some of them he answered, and some of them
he just didn't know what the problem was.
Smith had owned... That AR pistol for almost seven years,
he had bought it off a website and had it shipped to his local dealer. He mounted a red dot site on
it. And what he thought was an aftermarket pistol brace. Okay.
He was acting in good faith, but now he's facing 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
Cause he thought, and he was under the impression. that he was totally compliant within the law,
and I believe he was. He was totally in compliance with the Supreme Law, that's for sure.
He said that the brace that he put on there was actually smaller than the one that it came with,
and he thought it was a brace and not a buttstock. But apparently Pinellas Park Police have nothing
better to do than to ruin innocent Americans' lives over a ridiculous possession charge like this.
They took all of his guns. They took all of his ammo. They hauled him to jail. And then while he
was at the jail, he was stripped, searched, given a towel and a thin sleeping mat to go sleep on in
his cell. All over an alleged short-barreled rifle that...
not have that oh-so-gracious and magnanimous tax stamp from the Alpha Tango Foxtrot.
You wonder why I get pissed off about the NFA and the GCA. I'm even more infuriated when my state
has laws like this that ruin people's lives. It's not just the Alpha Tango Foxtrot wrecking
people's lives, it's also apparently now the Pinellas Park Police. While he was in jail,
other inmates that he was in there with said, oh yeah, we were stopped for a dim tag light too and
window tint that they claimed was too dark. You know what that is? That's police on a fishing
expedition. That's police using idiotic criteria to pull people over and gain access to their
vehicle. It seems like some of you police officers out there these days... are serial violators of
the Fourth Amendment, and you defy their protections, and you have no problem ruining the lives of
your fellow citizens. You look for the slightest reason to unconstitutionally search people's
vehicles, but the right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers,
and effects against unreasonable searches and seizures shall not be violated. Period.
And no warrants shall issue. They didn't have a warrant. They claimed they didn't need one because
of a bogus Supreme Court ruling. No warrant shall issue but upon probable cause,
supported by oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched and the
persons or things to be seized. That right, all of you law enforcement officers out there,
was purchased and defended with American blood. But you...
Spend your every waking moment trying to find new ingenious ways to circumvent that Fourth
Amendment and enter people's vehicles and then ruin their lives and make their lives a living hell
over nonsensical crap like this. Oh, I hope you Pinellas Park police are so proud of yourselves.
They gave him a public defender the next day at his court hearing. He was charged with misdemeanor
possession. of marijuana for his friend's empty container, and in possession of an unlicensed SBR,
a second-degree felony punishable by up to 15 years in prison and a $10,000 fine.
They also gave him two traffic tickets, one for not wearing a seatbelt, allegedly, and the other
for no tag light. Well, that's pretty contradictory.
The cops said that it was just dim. But now he's saying you didn't have one at all.
I tell you what, law enforcement officers, if you are like these Pinellas Park Police,
you're a scumbag. That's exactly what I'm calling you right now. You're a scumbag.
You got something to say about it? Shootingstraightradiopodcast at gmail.com. Call and make your
beef. You're a scumbag. Look what you've done out there, Pinellas Park Police.
Look what you've done to this kid. You lowlife piles of filth. He had no criminal history.
The only thing he'd ever gotten in his life was a traffic ticket. He said,
I'm a Christian. I believe in Jesus. I wasn't rude to the officers. I was yes, sir, and yes, sir,
all the time, the whole time. Penelope Park Police Chief Adam Geisenberger was not willing to be
interviewed for the story by Mr. Williams. Of course, he had nothing to say. He tried to pass...
Multiple interview requests to his public information officer, Lieutenant John Shea, but, as Mr.
Williams points out here, a lieutenant is not responsible for the overall conduct of his
department's officers, which ultimately is the responsibility of the chief of police.
Lieutenant Shea answered in his email, quote, I have passed this along to Chief Geisenberger,
and he has no statement on the incident. That's probably a wise thing,
Mr. Geisenberger, because I am ready to tear anything you say apart. Oh, I know that's not going to
make you shake in your shoes, but if you think this is going to gain you any friends in the Second
Amendment community, scumbag, you've got another thing coming. So, they were trying to figure out
whether this was a brace or a stock, and a man named Chris Brooks, who was a longtime gunsmith and
firearm expert, He had a look at it. He said he could not, oh yeah,
hope that thunder's not bleeding over onto the recording. He could not find anything really
definitive to say that it was a stock or a brace. He said it could go one way or the other.
Well, matter of fact, he said it's a very gray area.
And this guy classifies firearms and firearm parts for a major online retailer on top of that,
but even he was not 100% sure that Smith had an SBR and not a pistol with a legal brace.
He said that very plainly in his statement, and I don't have time to read it all. But he also took
issue with the state charges, and he did make a quote here I'm going to read. He says, I wasn't
even aware of the Florida SBR statute. Until after all this happened, the intent of the Florida law
was likely to canonize the federal statute into state law, but they were a good three or four
iterations behind federal law. Now, the Sarasota County, Florida Sheriff Kurt Hoffman is also an
attorney, and he served as general counsel for his department from 2005. I'm sorry,
he served as general counsel for Pinellas Park Police Department until he became sheriff in 2021.
And he believes that regardless of whether Smith has a legal AR pistol or an unlicensed SBR,
the issue is whether his encounter with Pinellas Park Police should have even ended an arrest in
the first place. And he said this, when you have a citizen with no...
history who is not using firearms in an unlawful manner, and you find what could be perhaps a
technical violation, and it takes you three hours to determine whether you have a crime or not,
perhaps the best thing to do is to take the offensive firearm part off the gun and then send the
non-criminal on his way. He also said, I'd like to think that law enforcement,
when encountering someone who is not acting in a nefarious capacity, that we should not be going to
this extreme. Certainly the other firearms there were not illegal, so I don't know what the intent
was to seize them. Sometimes we are our own worst enemy. Amen to that,
brother, and I appreciate you admitting that. Alan Gottlieb with Second Amendment Foundations had
something to say, too. He said this young man's life, as he knows it, may be over. Even if he
doesn't serve a full 15 years in prison, he'll become a convicted felon and unable to legally
possess firearms, which he very clearly enjoys shooting. I was extremely surprised when I learned
that this happened in Florida and not California, New York, or New Jersey. Law enforcement needs to
understand the harm that can come when they act so overzealously. By charging this young man with a
second-degree felony, they have ruined his life. That is the real crime here.
I certainly hope there's a judge in Florida who sees it this way. Yes,
a young man's life destroyed over a tax stamp that he didn't realize was even necessary.
Yeah, he didn't ask for the gracious magnitude. permission from an agency that literally has no
constitutional right to exist and get their special stamp of approval on it. What about the legal
doctrine of intent? What did they think he intended to do with that weapon? How is intent
established by mere ownership of an item? How many law enforcement officers caught with that same
thing would have pled ignorance in the exact same way if they were in his shoes?
Every last one of them I'm going to take a brief commercial timeout Let my blood pressure cool down
a little bit But we'll be right back with more Shooting Straight And we're going to have a look at
Mr. Robert Cicada And that is going to introduce you to next episode Where we talk about making the
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I hope you're not hearing all that rain beating on my roof right now. Wow,
it's a gully washer. But thank you, Lord, for the free water. The yard needed it. And matter of
fact, the pool could use a couple of inches, too, and it looks like it's doing the job. So thank
you, Lord. All right. I kind of launched in the first half, and I'm not sure that I'm not going to
do that again in the second half because I am infuriated and I stay pissed off. at the flagrant
ignorance of the Second Amendment.
Not just the ignorance, but the outright ignoring of it.
They literally disregard it. They disregard the plain text of it,
and that ticks me off no end. Now, I'm getting pretty sickened by all the support from the Second
Amendment community for Robert Cicada and the ATF's new rules. So many in the Second Amendment
community are lauding him as if he's going to make things all better for us. You know,
it's kind of like watching the chickens welcome the fox into the hen house as he presents himself
as a friend of the chickens and we're going to make things better for you. Number one,
he doesn't know the Constitution and he doesn't understand the Second Amendment in the least.
He was interviewed by law enforcement today on YouTube, and I pulled this right off the transcript,
and I heard it with my own two ears, where he made this comment throughout that interview.
The states have the right to establish laws that are more restrictive than the federal laws.
What? Where did you pull that out of, sir, besides your posterior end?
That is not even remotely true. Who told you that crap? How did you come to that deduction,
sir? My word. That tells you a little bit about what we're dealing with in Robert Cicada.
Matter of fact, he's a figurehead. He's an avatar put forth by all of those who want to maintain
control over the right to keep and bear arms. He's put forth... I'm getting ahead of myself.
I'll explain that in a minute. All of his proposals... may look like he's morphing the agency into
a kinder, gentler version of the ATF, but that hand has been played before.
And I started looking at this and go, yeah, I thought I've heard stuff like this before. After 10
,000 Americans were poisoned by the ATF with poison alcohol during Prohibition,
The public got pretty outraged by that, and there were a lot of people wanting to kill a bunch of
ATF agents. They called them revenuers back then. And you know what? A lot of them revenuers did
lose their lives, and as far as I'm concerned, they had it coming. Royce, man, come on. You can't
talk like that. Yes, I can. When government agents step outside the boundaries of the law,
especially the supreme law, and begin to harm innocent citizens, they should incur the wrath of
those citizens. You can't count on those above them to hold their feet to the fire.
It just doesn't happen like that anymore. There is nobody you can talk to and say,
you can't tell on the ATF to anybody right now. They're not going to do anything about it. They'll
pretend to. Because they held hearings and they said they were going to fix it. Matter of fact,
there was the promise of reform after Prohibition was repealed. Yeah.
And then there was public outrage. And I'm only talking about notorious cases here.
There were plenty of others. But there was public outrage over Ruby Ridge. And how the ATF set
Randy Weaver up for that debacle. And hearings were held after that. Nothing was done to hold the
perpetrators responsible. And we moved on with promises from the government that they would make
sure such a thing never happened again. And then we had Waco.
Yep, public outrage again. Public outrage and raising came with the government,
and Bill Clinton started getting scared because the militias started saying, okay, we're forming.
And he started blasting the militia movement and started saying we had no right to form militias.
Yeah, public outcry over Waco, which, by the way, Cicada's version of events are woefully different
compared to the facts. And hearings were again held.
Nothing was done to hold the perpetrators responsible. And we moved on with the promises from the
government that they would make sure such a thing never happened again. And introduced us once
again to a kinder, gentler ATF. Then Fast and Furious.
More public outrage, yeah. And funny, Fast and Furious. is remembered differently in the mind of
Robert Cicada than that of Peter Forselli and other ATF whistleblowers. Yeah, he claimed,
oh, it wasn't what people think it was. Okay, Robert, we're going on what men like Pete Purcelli
and others said happened. You don't get to rewrite the history of that incident, sir.
But once again, hearings were held, nothing was done to hold the perpetrators responsible, and we
moved on with the promises from the government that they would make sure such a thing never
happened again.
Well, a lot of people have been getting outraged about the NFA and the GCA,
which, by the way, prompted... doing away with that $200 tax stamp. I don't know if you realize
that. Yeah, they started getting, oh, you know what, we better give some sort of a concession here,
because people are getting ticked off about this, and they're saying that they have a right to own
these things, and we really can't prove by the Second Amendment that they don't have the right to
own them. So, okay, you don't have to pay the $200 then, but you need the stamp. Oh,
and we'll make it easier for you to come get the stamp now and get our oh-so-gracious and
magnanimous approval.
Uh-huh.
The outrage about the NFA and the GCA, both of which empower the most vile criminal agency in the
United States today, that outrage has now reached even more massive proportions.
And yes, I'm part of that outrage. You know, if it wasn't for those two laws, Florida would never
have crafted identical laws, and Travis Smith, whom we mentioned in the first half of the program,
would never have been arrested for owning what the Pinellas Park Police erroneously claimed was an
SBR. Many Americans and elected officials are waking up to what the true meaning of the Second
Amendment really is, and they've begun demanding answers as well as calling for the complete
abolition of the agency. And just like that, they trot out Mr.
Nice Guy, Bob Cicada, as if he's the savior of the Second Amendment, and he's the one who's
magically going to build a bridge between tyranny and the rights of the people. Bull fertilizer.
So in my opinion, right now, The fact that they're trotting Bobby Cicada out here is the ATF and
those who don't want to abolish them are doing damage control and the ATF is literally fighting for
survival. Now, it's funny that Cicada has been mentioning the abolition and the defunding of his
agency several times lately. and making light of it. Like,
no, are you kidding me? If you do away with us, well, you're just going to suffer. Yeah,
crime's going to go up. The streets will not be as safe if we are not around to protect you.
Well, I think we're kind of tired of the ATF protecting and serving the living crap out of us and
wrecking our lives. And here's an article by Sean Michael Newhouse from April 29th after Bobby
Cicada was confirmed. And I may have touched on this article several episodes back when I was
talking about Cicada. And he was confirmed to lead the ATF in spite of the GOP's push for the
agency's elimination. And here's the article. The Senate on Wednesday, April 29th confirmed 59 to
39 Robert Cicada, a career federal law enforcement officer as director of the BATFE,
an agency that has historically attracted the GOP's ire. No,
Mr. Author, they've attracted the ire of the entire American populace.
Cicada has been serving as the ATF's deputy director for about a year. He joined the agency in 2005
as a special agent and has been promoted several times. Senator Chuck Grassley from Iowa said,
and he's a Republican allegedly, he knows how to lead the Bureau because he's tirelessly worked
throughout the chain of command. Well, Mr. Grassley, we constitutionally sensible Americans,
apparently you're not part of our number, We see that as a negative, sir, and not a positive.
You see, this bureau should not even exist, sir, much less be led by anybody.
The new director's nomination was supported by all present Republicans, that tells you who your
enemies are, as well as seven Senate Democrats. We already knew they were the enemy. During his
confirmation hearing, however, Cicada said that abolishing or defunding ATF would have,
quote, a negative impact on America's communities. Oh,
you're not going to be safe without us. I beg to differ, sir.
I beg to differ. You see, a lot of the gun trafficking cases you're pursuing would not even exist.
If you did not exist as an agency, sir, there would be no such thing as gun trafficking.
It wouldn't be a crime. Because, well, Royce, you want criminals to traffic guns?
They're doing it already! The only people getting arrested for it, it seems,
are Americans, innocent Americans, who buy a gun here or there and then sell some of their own
stuff, because that was what the zero tolerance policy was under Biden.
My friend Rod Rowe, whom I ran into at the gun show over the weekend, and he and I were talking
about it, they made his life a living hell. At first, they took his license,
and then they said, you can't sell any of your guns. He said, what are you talking about? It's
totally legal. They said, yeah, we'll go ahead and do it. We'll arrest you. We'll arrest you for
gun trafficking. So he had to hold his entire inventory and not sell it for the money he had into
it and take a loss because he was threatened repeatedly by unscrupulous scumbag agents who told
him, we're going to arrest you if you try to sell off your stock. He said, well, it's mine now. I
signed it over to myself. We don't care. We're going to arrest you. We're going to,
we're just going to go ahead and TT in your cornflakes.
He said, Cicada said that pursuant to a Trump executive order, the agency is reviewing its
regulations to address any encroachments on the Second Amendment.
You want some help with that, Bob? You want me to help you ascertain the encroachments on the
Second Amendment that your agency literally exists to fulfill? How about we start by defining the
word arms? in light of a dictionary from back in colonial times, sir.
He said, the ATS mission is not to burden lawful gun owners or undermine the Second Amendment.
Well, first of all, a lawful gun owner to you is somebody who owns only the guns that you say we
can. All guns, all arms are lawful to all peaceable citizens within the continental United States.
He said, The right to keep and bear arms is a constitutional guarantee, and I'm committed to
protecting and preserving it. Really?
Tell us you know nothing about the Second Amendment, Bob, without telling us you know nothing about
the Second Amendment. You have to do a review on whether or not the NFA or the GCA violates the
supreme law? Your mission, sir, is nothing but...
an undermining of and a burden to the free exercise of the Second Amendment.
He says, I am equally committed to supporting the men and women of the ATF.
Well, you can't do both, Bob. Your loyalty is either to the Second Amendment or it's to your
agency, and I already know which one you're loyal to, and the dadgum sure is not the Second
Amendment. He said they, those agents, deserve clear mission focus,
strong leadership, modern tools, and accountability at every level. You can go ahead and scratch
off the accountability part. That will never happen. But no, Bob, what we the people deserve, no,
not your agents, we the people deserve to be free from government intrusion and suppression of our
God-given rights. And your filthy agents actually deserve imprisonment at hard labor right along
with you. As far as I'm concerned, I want to remind everybody, Bobby Cicada was working at the ATF
when... Fast and Furious happened. Okay? He was there when Fast and Furious happened.
Apparently, his recollection is not quite the same as others, as I said before. He added that he
has worked with practically every ATF agent that's actually out there making cases,
and we all know each other. I'm sorry, Bob, we don't see that as a positive thing. And making cases
against whom? People with gun barrels below the so-called legal limit?
Or people with questionable pistol braces or with force reset triggers? This is an agency that has
no constitutional right to exist and conversely is actually prohibited from fulfilling its primary
mission of overseeing the enforcement of the constitutionally prohibited National Firearms Act and
Gun Control Act of 1968.
Cicada is going to undoubtedly point to Congress and say, hey, it's their fault. They passed it.
I'm just doing my job. Sir, if your job is putting the teeth in unconstitutional laws,
you, sir, are culpable right along with them. Just as culpable as the Pinellas Park Police
Department, sir. Well, Congress passed it. Yeah,
they did. You're the ones that are willingly acting as the teeth in those laws with no hesitation
or reservation whatsoever. My point in all this, Bobby Cicada is no hero,
and neither are any of his fellow agent criminals. Yes, I said criminals. They routinely and
willfully, as part of their mission, violate the supreme law in the Second Amendment,
not to mention the Fourteenth Amendment. And in the next episode, we're going to make the case for
abolishing the ATF. I'll be posting a link where you can vote, actually, to do exactly that.
You can actually click on it. It's really easy to do. There's already a pre-written statement. You
simply click on it. You add your email. You add your address, your phone number, whatever else you
have to add there. And they make it easy, just like GOA does. And I hope you will do that.
Let your voice be heard. Because unfortunately, during the comment periods recently,
so many anti-gunners made their voices heard and literally changed the course of the ATF's
decision, which at the same time tells me the ATF is nothing but a political animal and has nothing
to do with the Constitution at all. So... Keep that in mind. And yes,
do stay in contact with your reps, as I have told you to do repeatedly. You can do that best by
joining Gun Owners of America. Go to gunowners.org, sign up for a year,
and you will see just how easy they make it for you to have your voice heard up there in
Washington, D.C., not just there, but in your home state also when there are issues concerning you
there, Second Amendment issues, that is. So, stay in contact with your reps,
stay stocked up, stay armed up, stay strapped or get clapped, and never forget,
Incoming rounds always have the right of way. Royce out.