Category: gun sales

So It’s Not About Principle

HB 1386 creates an additional 11% excise tax on the sale of all ammunition in the state. Firearms and ammunition are already subject to an 11% federal excise tax through the Pittman-Robertson Act, along with a variety of other state and local taxes and fees. The NRA has current litigation against California’s similar 11% excise tax, and will be present at the hearing to oppose this bill. [More]

So 11% taxes are praiseworthy when they benefit Fudds but bad when they benefit gun-grabbers…?

[Via Jess]

Buy Like a Dealer?

[Y]ou are not buying products from FDC, we are simply giving you exclusive access to the wholesale vendor network while providing the customer service of a retail site. [More]

Presented here fyi. I know nothing about these folks, have no experience with them, and who.is shows site registration by proxy.

If you’ve dealt with them, feel free to add a comment. In the mean time, I’ll try to contact them and see if anyone wants to introduce themselves…

UPDATES

I see they’re associated with Brandon Herrera.

I began a dialog on FB messaging and got this returned:

I’m Taylor Spears, COO of FDC.
My business partner Chris Smith and I started FDC out of Pensacola, FL. Home of naval aviation.
I have a background in development and CIS and 12 years of operations management experience, the last 4 of which being in the firearms game.
My partner Chris has almost 20 years of retail firearms experience, and owns the largest firearm retailer on the Florida panhandle.
We brought in Brandon Herrera as part owner in our company to provide the business with a recognizable and relatable face in the 2A community (you know, the guy has been publicly recommended by the people to be the next director of the ATF).
Chris and Brandon met at an ATF hearing in Fort Walton Beach, FL when they were both testifying against ATF overreach (the retail store Chris owns was subject to a significant amount of said overreach)
We’re obscenely pro-2A, and lean very limited government and constitutionalist in our core business values.
FDC is somewhat of a Costco of the firearms world. We provide access to wholesalers in the firearm industry in exchange for a small monthly fee, and charge exactly what the vendors charge us. We make zero money off transactions on FDC and rely on customer service and our membership fees to operate off of.
Think of us as BDU without the sketch factor. We respond to our chats, fulfill the product as ordered, take care of the customer, and provide an above and beyond approach to our members.

Oh. And we pay our affiliates. That last part is rather important. We’re a small community, and everybody talks if you don’t properly treat those who represent your brand to their viewers and readers.

[Via WiscoDave]

Speaking of Missing the Barn…

AN ACT Relating to protecting the public from gun violence by establishing additional requirements for the business operations of licensed firearms dealers [More]

Go after the people whose livlihoods already depend on proving — on demand — that they comply with the law… really?

[Via Jess]

We’ll Tell You What Your Rights Are

In 2025, several new gun laws will go into effect in California. [More]

More attacks on RKBA, due process, self-incrimination protections, and privacy rights, while dragooning dealers into spreading the state’s terms of surrender…

You’ve got to scroll down to find them. The “real reporter” figured we needed to hear Kamala and Joe prove they’re cluelsss how the election went and demand more infringements on everybody first because of Madison.

Question about Sec. 34210: Do you see anything in there prohibiting dealers from putting a stamp on the pamphlet warning customers it’s state-mandated bull$h!+? I guess if they wanna stay open, because the vindictive bastards don’t neeed laws to persecute…

[Via Jess]

Pure Michigan

That idiot Polehanki again…

Once more high population areas full of Democrat government addicts prove how stupid and self-entitled they are and **** everything up for the rest of us by voting in communist hags.

[Via WiscoDave]

The X Factor

X prides itself on being the bastion of free speech—a sanctuary for open discourse in a landscape increasingly dominated by cancel culture. Yet, its own advertising policy remains shackled by hypocrisy: gun ads are outright banned. [More]

Elon Musk still has a ways to go…

Case in point: It’s easy not to like Sen. Fetterman when you realize he wants enforcers to use up to lethal force on us to strip us of our right to keep and bear arms.

The Avoid the Real Issue Act of 2024

Today, Congressman Andrew Clyde (GA-09) introduced the No Guns for Illegal Aliens Act to prohibit illegal aliens from using government-issued IDs to purchase firearms. [More]

Better lock that barn door. Don’t want the escaped horses to get back in.

Prognosis 0% chance of being enacted

[Via Antigone]

Rights Free Zones

Pursuant to Rule 29 of the Federal Rules of Appellate Procedure, the States of New York, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, Hawai‘i, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nevada, New Jersey, North Carolina, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Vermont, Washington, and Wisconsin, and the District of Columbia submit this brief as amici curiae in support of the appellee, the United States of America, and ask this Court to reaffirm the constitutionality of 18 U.S.C. § 922(a)(3), which makes it unlawful to transfer or receive a firearm from out of state, except through a federally licensed firearms dealer, importer, or manufacturer. [More]

What “infringemwent”? This is “commnonsense safety.”

So, just the Second Amendment or does the rest of the Bill of Rights threaten “exercis[ing] their police power,” too…?

[Via Antigone]

Operation Choke Point Redux

Section 13 states the prohibited uses, where users would agree not to request, send, or receive money for several things. “Obviously, some I get,” she said. “The illegal drugs and controlled substances make sense, but firearms, ammunition, and other weapons, or materials that promote intolerance, violence or hate, in whose definition and what does that mean, a Ponzi scheme or pyramid scheme? Again, I don’t know what that means.” [More]

What about porn stars…? Asking for a friend…

A ratioing is born…

[Via Black Rifle]

A Singular Argument

The text of the Second Amendment plainly does not guarantee a right to purchase an unlimited number of firearms within a 30-day period. [More]

I’m pretty sure “arms” is plural.

Of course, the miserable traitor Rob Bonta knows that.

Subversive Democrats pull this in-your-face $h!+ because they’re confident they can without repercussions.

[Via Jess]

Sign of the Times

NY legislature passes bill requiring posted warning in gun stores [More]

Variations on a theme:

“We need to revolutionize the way we look at guns, like what we did with cigarettes … It used to be that smoking was a glamour symbol—cool, sexy, macho. Now it is dirty, deadly—and banned.”

Is there anything in the law that prohibits posting this right next to it?

[Via bondmen]

By Fair Means or Foul

California law prohibiting gun shows at county fairs upheld by federal appeals court in unanimous decision [More]

I trust no one is surprised.

Years ago, before the Great Western Gun Show was forced out of California, I recall being especially bitter over how it could attract tens of thousands of gun owners–yet a counter-protest against the Million Moms preceded by announcements and appeals throughout the “activist” network, only drew a few hundred. And out of all Los Angeles, we’d be lucky to get 50 to show up at an NRA Members’ Council meeting, and of those, maybe half a dozen– of the same people all the time– actually did any work.

Add the engineered demographic shift our “gun rights leaders” say doesn’t qualify for “single issue” consideration, and the traditional uselessness of California Republicans, and no other outcome was possible.

Appealing to the full Ninth Circuit won’t reverse things. That’s just a requisite step to denial, and then hoping the Supreme Court will hear it and that it still has a favorable majority.

[Via Jess]

A Tall Order

Injunction granted against ATF’s ‘firearms dealer’ rule for 4 states, 4 groups … The injunction applies to residents of Texas, Louisiana, Mississippi and Utah along with members of Gun Owners of America, Gun Owners Foundation, Tennessee Firearms Association and Virginia Citizens Defense League. [More]

Yo, Texas gun owners: The new infringements were brought to you in part by Tony Gonzales, and a number of you couldn’t be bothered to do anything about that.

[Via Jess]

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