Nathan Kirk, the owner of Blount County Tactical, a gun store in Oneonta, Alabama, bought a new Ford pickup in October and signed up for the state’s “Don’t Tread on Me” tag.

Alabama Man May Keep His Personalized License Plate That Contains A Message For Joe Biden

An Alabama man who personalized his license plate with the equivalent of the one-fingered salute to President Joe Biden can keep his tag, after state officials relented in a threat to take it away, an Alabama news website reported on Monday.

Nathan Kirk, the owner of Blount County Tactical, a gun store in Oneonta, Alabama, bought a new Ford pickup in October and signed up for the state’s “Don’t Tread on Me” tag.

He personalized the plate with a message: “LGBF JB.”

Those letters stand for “Let’s Go Brandon” – the conservative rallying cry that related to NASCAR driver Brandon Brown – and “F–k Joe Biden.”

The “Let’s Go Brandon” chant became a G-rated way to say the other phrase after an NBC Sports reporter claimed that fans who were supporting Brown after he won his first race in Talladega, Alabama, last fall were cheering him instead of jeering the president – even though what they were yelling could be plainly heard.

Last month, the Alabama Department of Revenue sent Kirk a letter, asserting his tag “contains objectionable language which is considered by the Department to be offensive to the peace and dignity of the State of Alabama. Registration for this personalized license plate message will not be issued/renewed,” according to the Trussville Tribune.

The department demanded that Kirk return the license plate in 10 days or face having his vehicle registration revoked. He also would face a $500 fine for a first offense and fined $1,000 for each subsequent offense.

Kirk claimed that if his vehicle registration was invalid, his truck could be impounded.

He also maintained that the state was “stepping on his freedom.”

“I didn’t have an appeal process or something like that, I never did that, I didn’t have an attorney reach out,” he told the Tribune. But he said he got help after his plight was circulated by conservative media.

Eventually, Kirk’s supporters on social media urged Republican Gov. Kay Ivey to help him. That, Kirk said, “lit a fire under whoever was making a decision.”

“The whole state probably wasn’t behind this,” he added. “I think it was just a couple people got their feelings hurt at the state, and then maybe more influential people there got involved.”

On March 9, Kirk received a letter saying he could keep the tag. 

While some people threatened his family, Kirk maintained that the response was overwhelmingly positive.

“We’ve had crazies that have threatened us and stuff like that, and left bad reviews for my wife’s hair salon [on the internet], and all kinds of other things, from places like New Hampshire and stuff like that,” Kirk said.

“The motive is they don’t agree with me, just like everybody else, leaving bad reviews when they’ve never been in my store,” Kirk added.

“They want to punish somebody for thinking differently than them. It’s been really difficult with Facebook since this, they’ve blocked every one of my profiles, I’ve had to make different profiles because they keep doing this.”

In a separate interview with the Epoch Times, Kirk said he’s willing to let bygones be bygones, as long as the state doesn’t tread on him, so to speak.

“As long as it’s not something bad or obscene in expressing your opinion, nobody has the right to say you can’t do something,” he said. “America generally needs to stand up.”

“I’ll hear what they have to say,” he said of a possible meeting with a lawyer.

“As long as they don’t mess with me anymore – this should never have happened and my main thing was pulling it off, and I’ve done it.”

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2 Replies to “Alabama Man May Keep His Personalized License Plate That Contains A Message For Joe Biden”

  1. I’m a HUGE Van Halen fan. So much so that friends gave me the nickname Fair Warning (also the band’s best album) I wanted FWRNING for my plate in California and described what it represented. It was denied as offensive or objectionable. I settled for FAIRWNG

  2. Carry a black permanent marker with you every where you go and write FJB on everything.

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