New court decision out of the District Court in KS! US v Tamori Morgan is a monster case with using Bruen and Rahimi, things are heating up around the NFA. Megan Hilbish of the Kansas State Rifle Association weighs in!
Five Seasons Media, Josh Scheinblum’s company, reached out to me as early as 2019 in an attempt to discuss marketing and content creation. As an all-volunteer 2A advocacy group, we get solicited daily to spend money on marketing, usually from businesses that truly don’t like or care for our mission. This should indicate how much you can expect their wizardry to help your cause. Very little in most cases, so be careful who you work with and how you spend your precious few dollars…
Oddly, Josh wasn’t so much pushy as dedicated. He was persevering and challenged me in an email exchange. It would have been easy to hit the “spam” button and never see another email from him, but I sensed that he genuinely cared about both our work and his. So, I took a few minutes to push back on him and replied with something snarky about how a marketing agency like his planned to quantify the work product. We took the conversation to a phone call next, a Zoom meeting after that, and then a sit-down meeting around the big conference room table at Brownells with the core players.
A partnership, far more powerful and impressive than I had ever possibly imagined was spawned. …And whether they realize it or not, Iowans are forever in Josh’s debt.
“Liberty” lib·er·ty (ˈli-bər-tē )
Josh approached the aspects of helping IFC in every sense of these 3 definitions of the word, “liberty.” He wanted, more than anything, to help IFC pass the Freedom Amendment and give Iowans the option to vote on arguably the very best Right to Keep and Bear Arms constitutional amendment in the United States. He came armed with a plan to hoist the Freedom Amendment into the history books. IFC had carried that water for 10 years through many trials and much tribulation and Josh was right there with us on the nature of the 1st two definitions of the word, “liberty.” Josh sought to help us get the vote over the finish line, which meant he took “liberty” in the 3rd definition to elevate the issue for all to ponder. He did so at first because we were partners and we were paying him. However, he and his team of professionals ended up doing so because we came to trust them as family. The liberties he took went above and beyond the call of duty, servicing our needs quite literally 7 days a week through thick and thin.
Several years beyond our initial meeting, we can peer back in retrospect, with a series of challenges met, competition bested, and a constitutional amendment nearly everyone didn’t think possible ratified by the largest popular vote in Iowa’s history. I often wonder about the road untraveled. What if Josh hadn’t been so resolute when contacting me? What if we’d never partnered with 5 Seasons to guide us through the maze? Would we have gotten the Freedom Amendment over the finish line with record-breaking numbers? I just don’t know the answers to all of those questions. Such is the nature of pondering… But what I don’t have to ponder is the outcome. Josh helped IFC in ways nobody can imagine and we probably don’t appreciate enough. He became a friend and a brother through those years and I’m forever thankful. I think liberty-loving Iowans should be thankful.
IFC moves forward now with a new social media partner for our social media as our volunteers take on a much-increased role in the daily work. We all wish Josh and his team the very best, and I have no doubt we’ll work together again on electioneering or projects yet to be designated. For me, this is hard… When you get used to talking with someone daily, there is a hole associated with that missing conversation. But, I know the 5 Seasons Media company is hugely successful and they’ll fill their hours with content creation, marketing strategy, and engagement tactics for their clients. They are a top performer in those categories and not slowing down.
Our collaboration together was the right choice at the right time and Liberty was offered to all. As IFC closes this chapter of the book, we thank you, Josh, and every single person at the 5 Seasons Media company for your tireless work and support. We offer a special thank you to the spouses of the company personnel… Without their support, the folks who serviced our needs, day in and day out, couldn’t do the job. That isn’t lost on the many folks at IFC, as we too do our work with tremendous support at home. We owe you a debt of gratitude, if not far more.
In Libertatem,
Michael Ware
IFC Board
This guy… THIS is the guy—–>
Travis White of FRAC on IFC Warrior Wednesday EP78.
Michael Ware of IFC interviews, Travis White of FRAC (Firearms Regulatory Accountability Coalition). FRAC’s sole mission is to aggressively advocate for and defend firearms, ammunition, and accessories manufacturers and importers from government overreach. This includes holding the government accountable for arbitrary and capricious policies and rulings and ensuring that the government’s regulation of the industry is conducted in an open and transparent manner.
FRAC will be the leading advocate of firearms manufacturers, importers, and their customers before federal regulatory agencies. fracaction.org
Mike Mihalski of Sons of Liberty Gun Works? Who is he and why is he so likable? Refresh yourselves with the spirited conversation between Michael Ware of IFC and Mike Mihalski of Sons of Liberty Gun Works. GET OUT AND VOTE, by the way. TAKE OTHERS WITH YOU, by the way. Mike builds a really great AR15 and is wired right to boot! Tune in!
Tyranny is the problem with the progressive anti-liberty mindset. Whenever possible, they employ tyranny over us with glee and enthusiasm. Why? Because they tell themselves they’re saving us from ourselves. It isn’t that the 2A or 1A are fundamental problems. Rather, the average progressive, post-modern, neo-Marxist, or run-of-the-mill left winger can’t handle a world they don’t control. It won’t matter to them that you and I, among 99% of the rest of us do well, sometimes even great, with the exercise of our civil liberties, but more that they can’t imagine doing anything of the sort themselves. And because they can’t think through what it would be like to defend oneself with a firearm, they seek to remove any choice for you to do so.
“Of all tyrannies, a tyranny sincerely exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It would be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron’s cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end for they do so with the approval of their own conscience. They may be more likely to go to Heaven yet at the same time likelier to make a Hell of earth. This very kindness stings with intolerable insult. To be “cured” against one’s will and cured of states which we may not regard as disease is to be put on a level of those who have not yet reached the age of reason or those who never will; to be classed with infants, imbeciles, and domestic animals.”
–God in the Dock: Essays on Theology (Making of Modern Theology)
Lewis does a pretty good job of outlining this fundamental problem in the quote above. If you cut to the core of these silly progressive liberal arguments, you inevitably come to one irrefutable truth. They can’t possibly grapple with the precept surrounding responsibility and consequence. They wish to place upon us restrictions that make them feel better about themselves with simultaneous safety nets to make it work.
Why safety nets you ask? Well, when the consequences are no longer bound to the choices we make, we simply don’t learn the lesson. Without lessons learned, we are apt to make more bad choices. With more bad choices, we see poor outcomes associated with everything you can chart, categorize, or easily reference. To avoid the truth associated with such endeavors, safety nets are necessary to mask the logical conclusion that ethics matter and serve as the basis for our morals in action.
This isn’t to say progs don’t care about people. Of course, they do. But they don’t love them enough to allow them to grow in ways that can often result in a bruised knee or a scraped elbow. My dad pushed me down the driveway, which had a considerable grade, without training wheels, and yelled, “Peddle son!” Guess what? I learned to ride a bike in 7 seconds. How long might it have taken me if I’d had training wheels on? I’m unsure, as it was the road not traveled. But I’m guessing longer than 7 seconds. Dad wasn’t wrestling his own mind about what was going to happen or not happen when he gave me a push. He had sized me up, knew I was probably ready to rock, and gave me a shove. Progs have a hard time with that metaphorically speaking, so they tend to avoid the possibility it won’t go well, by placing everyone on perpetual training wheels for their own good.
Unfortunately, their version of training wheels is perpetual intolerance of us while demanding 100% tolerance of them. Thus, tyranny and Hell on Earth. Pay close attention to what they say when they’re talking. They rarely skip an opportunity to talk down to you. Go read the Lewis quote above again, and let it sink in.
In Libertatem,
Michael Ware – IFC Board
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