An Alabama Personalized License Plate - LET'S GO BRANDON!

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PUNTA GORDA, Fla.—An Alabama man who personalized his license plate with “LGBFJB” on a state-issued “Don’t Tread on Me” yellow license plate that the state found “objectionable” now says he can keep it.

Nathan Kirk, Blount County resident and owner of Blount County Tactical, a store that sells firearms and ammunition, received a letter from the Alabama Department of Revenue dated March 9 stating that the license plate would “not be recalled.”

Kirk believes the amount of attention his story garnered was the reason behind the state changing its mind.

Kirk said his advice to anyone who is getting “bullied” by government officials is to “not lay down.”

Kirk said “America in general needs to start standing up.”

Kirk said that he is meeting with legal counsel soon to discuss his options and said that litigation is not off the table.

“I will listen to what they have to say,” he said. “As long as they don’t mess with me any longer—it shouldn’t have ever happened and my main thing was shutting it down, and I’ve accomplished that.”

In October Kirk received his new Ford truck that he had ordered a couple of months prior. He registered the vehicle in his wife’s name and ordered a specialty plate, sometimes called a “vanity plate,” displaying in bold black letters “LGBFJB” against a yellow background with the Gadsden coiled snake logo for his new silver Ford F-150 King Ranch pick-up truck from the Alabama Department of Revenue, Motor Vehicle Division.

“I wanted to do something ‘goofy’ with the tag,” Kirk told The Epoch Times in a telephone interview. “Being in the firearm industry and knowing how [President Joe] Biden feels about firearms, yeah, it’s derogatory against Joe Biden, I’ll admit that.”

“The paper tag that I had on the truck was expired and I called the tag office and they told me that there was an aluminum shortage at the courthouse where I ordered the tag—that was news to me because everyone was still drinking out of aluminum cans,” he continued.

On Jan. 21, Kirk said he received his tag in the mail, put it on his truck, took a picture of it, and posted it on his Facebook account.

Then on Feb. 25 he received a letter telling him that the tag was “inappropriate and “objectionable.”

He said he received a telephone call “a few days” after receiving the letter and told him the “exact reason” why they found Kirk’s tag to be “objectionable.”

“They told me they have ‘reviewers from the review department’—that’s the exact terminology they used,” he said. “The reviewer said they thought the “F” meant the explicative word.”

“In my interpretation, it doesn’t stand for that,” he said. “I can’t help what they make it stand for, but regardless, it’s up to your own interpretation.”

“I found out just a year ago, the state was issuing tags for the Freemasons, the Masonic Lodge, and you’ll never guess what the first three letters were on the tag—FJB 001, FJB 002 and the numbers go up from there,” he said. “But my “F” tapping is offensive?”

“Alabama, because it has censored political speech, has set itself up as an arbiter of political speech and therefore has violated the man’s First Amendment rights,” Florida attorney Charles Heekin told The Epoch Times during a telephone interview. “This is a breathtaking ignorance of the law regarding free speech and the First Amendment, which is the most sacred.”

First amendment rights and expressing oneself came at a price for Kirk and his family, however, as they, and even their pets, have received death threats because of his gun store and now his license plate dispute with the state.

“They called my wife and said the same things,” he said. “They even said I wasted my money on a car tag when I could’ve gotten my wife a facelift and a boob job.”

Kirk has also had an issue with Facebook canceling his page in an attempt to “silence his opinions” and “hurt his firearm business.”

Kirk said he has lost his Facebook pages due to advertising sales that he has in his store and that Facebook is violating its advertising policies on the Marketplace site located within the Facebook domain.

“They said that a brick-and-mortar firearms store can post things for sale at your store,” he said. “But they cancel it anyway—and they have moved my feed to where nobody can see it—I’m basically irrelevant.

Kirk said about his personal Facebook page “I got banned from Facebook for 30 days because I called a woman a liberal, but she wished death on me and my family—even my dogs—and she gets to keep her page,” he said.