Borepatch zeros in on a bit of government hypocrisy and backs his case with a link to a Barack (I DO TOO create jobs!) Obama pledge to dump stupid federal regulations.
Mr. President, you missed one or two.
Still grumpy over that stupid gun show experience yesterday, I went to the BATFE site and doodled around in the half-cured Bondo describing the process of getting a C and R license. I learned:
Only Elmer Fudd rates a federal firearms license. PDF alert. It is the application form which demands to know if you hold a valid hunting license. You check a yes box or no box. Be careful:
1. If you answered "NO," you likely cannot lawfully possess a firearm and therefore cannot be a federal firearms licensee.
The godawful free-range idiocy of that doesn't need elaboration for anyone who ever devoted three neuron-seconds to firearms issues. All I can figure is that the feds are in a tizzy to keep broom-handle Mausers out of the hands of PETA activists.
The form also requires you to list your race. And here I sit all embarrassed for believing all these years that my betters in Washington were sweating blood to create a color-blind America.
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3 comments:
Since the first gun control laws were all about race, it makes sense to me.
The ATF supports your right to hunt because the 2nd Amendment is only about hunting, or the National Guard, or states' something or other.
A thought: if an applicant has a hunting license, they probably already have guns (in their eyes) so the application would be rejected because no one needs more than one gun, right? Unless one plans on making money, which they would be forced to get the FFL instead of the C&R. Then a subsequent fine and confiscation of your collection because you "lied" on your C&R application.
Then conviction and jail time, felon. No more guns for you, and I think that's the point.
Sorry for the rabbit trail, I usually have off the wall thoughts...
The hunting license rule has got to be another arbitrary regulation they pulled out of their hind-end just to aggravate honest citizens.
Nothing wrong with rabbit trails. They even recall to mind another dead-brain law around here.
Des Moines thinks shooting at deer with a rifle, any rifle, is too dangerous -- all those big bullets whizzing around the countryside. So if you fire at Bambi with Gramp's old Model 94, you're a criminal.
On the other hand, our masters don't mind a bit if we load .338WM rounds to elephant-gun capability and bang away at two-pound cottontails.
Even better, when you shoot at a squirrel in a tree with a 7mm STW, the bullet turns to pixie dust rather than hitting a school bus full of nuns and blind orphans three counties away, which it surely would have done had you launched that same bullet at Bambi.
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