The Trump Slump Is Back, Gun Makers Say [More]
Don’t worry. Democrats will fix that.
[Via Jess]
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…
This is CNN
CNN Goes All in to Shame Fathers Out of Buying Hunting Rifles for Sons [More]
And they wonder why this is happening.
[Via bondmen]
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]
How Many?
Pure Michigan
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.
Comrades in Arms
Women and LGBTQ+ people take up guns after Trump’s win: ‘We need to protect ourselves’ [More]
That’s why I don’t buy into “gunfluencers” gushing over stats about gun sales to new buyers as if that somehow benefits us.
[Via Andy M]
It’s On
The Artlessness of the Deal
A Reverse ‘Buyback’
Gender Benders
Gun Ownership by Gender in 2024: Closing the Gender Gap [More]
Just don’t conflate gun ownership with political sanity.
This is the forehead slapper for me:
Male support for gun control has increased by 30% since 2001
Indoctrination outpaces education.
A Higher Ordnung
Children of an Amish farmer who sold thousands of guns despite not having the required federal firearms dealer license dropped their ownership claims to several dozen guns seized by the government. [More]
I see my questions still haven’t been answered.
[Via Jess]
The Avoid the Real Issue Act of 2024
Leftists Buying Guns Nothing for 2A Advocates to Crow About
There are no Second Amendment-supporting Democrats. [More]
Why would we celebrate hypocrites who vote against our rights? Besides, if owning guns was all it took, we’d have no better pal than Lon Horiuchi.
