Posted on 02/29/2024 4:14:26 PM PST by Mean Daddy
DES MOINES — Iowans could soon purchase a license plate that features the yellow “don’t tread on me” Gadsden flag, with the fees collected going to fund training and education by National Rifle Association-affiliated groups.
The flag, which features a coiled rattlesnake and the slogan “Don’t tread on me,” has become a symbol of individual liberty favored by Libertarians and conservatives. It has its origins in the American Revolutionary War and was designed by Christopher Gadsden, a South Carolina delegate to the Continental Congress.
House File 2424, which would make the plates an option for drivers in Iowa, was passed out of the Ways and Means committee by majority Republicans on Wednesday, making it eligible for a vote in the full House.
The specialized plates would cost $50 to register and require a $50 annual fee. The money collected by the plate registration would be directed to the Department of Public Safety, which would distribute grants for education and training on the right to keep and bear arms under the constitutions of the U.S. and Iowa.
The bill would direct the department to give first consideration for those grants to “any official state association of the National Rifle Association or similar nonprofit organizations.” The Iowa Firearms Coalition, an influential gun rights lobbying group, is the official Iowa state association of the NRA. The coalition is the only group registered in favor of the bill.
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Personally, I won't get one. No reason to paint a target on your car.
Depends on where you live. Lol. You can fly stars and bars on your trucks here and nobody gives it a second thought.
The Plate is a good way to get the fascists to trash your vehicle.
Exactly. Such displays are rock magnets.
> Personally, I won’t get one. No reason to paint a target on your car. <
A friend of mine often went up into Canada to fish. He got pulled over and questioned by the Canadian border police every time. Every last time.
Then someone reminded my friend that he had an NRA sticker on his back bumper. So my friend removed the sticker before going into Canada. No more hassles from the Canadian police.
Quite the coincidence, eh?
My adopted home state!😀
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