You know what pisses me off?

[centrarchidae]

On your #2...

Why do "feel bad?" You have a natural right that has been violated. You aren't a criminal in any way.

Because none of my friends who own the same guns can (legally - taking a vacation to Cheyenne and finding stuff in that they forgot buying a year ago in the couch cushions aside) get magazines for them until we un-fuck this mess. There are places in the law where it may be appropriate to treat LE a little differently from everyone else (which is not a rabbit hole I want to go down in this thread) but "who can have which guns and which gun parts" is not IMHO one of them.

And it occurs to me that I left out my sincere desire that BATFE finds that Former Brewmaster Hickenloser filled out an alcohol licensing form with a blue ballpoint instead of the mandated black gel pen, and sends Elite Dog-Shooting Task Force 12 to raid the Boettcher Mansion. I'd give up bacon for a month to see that.

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Because none of my friends who own the same guns can (legally - taking a vacation to Cheyenne and finding stuff in that they forgot buying a year ago in the couch cushions aside) get magazines for them until we un-fuck this mess. There are places in the law where it may be appropriate to treat LE a little differently from everyone else (which is not a rabbit hole I want to go down in this thread) but "who can have which guns and which gun parts" is not IMHO one of them.

And it occurs to me that I left out my sincere desire that BATFE finds that Former Brewmaster Hickenloser filled out an alcohol licensing form with a blue ballpoint instead of the mandated black gel pen, and sends Elite Dog-Shooting Task Force 12 to raid the Boettcher Mansion. I'd give up bacon for a month to see that.

So set the example for your friends, or better yet, share.

You seem to be buying the legitimacy of this whole thing. Rhonda Fields and Bloomberg are pretty happy about that.

There's going to come a time when a line must be drawn. They will claim it is all legal, they will claim they won the elections (Democracy trumps black-letter law). Well, they've corrupted Democracy (fraud, TP/IRS scandal) and the Judicial--now we find out that they've even been spying on Congress (the Legislative). They even went after the Fourth Branch by threatening prison time for whistle blowers. Can they claim any legitimacy when we have been denied all the checks-and-balances?

These are serious offenses and no one has spent a minute in jail. Meanwhile you feel bad about a piece of plastic or metal that goes into a gun that hasn't killed anyone.

Food for thought.

Hick got Donnie Young killed and nothing happened to him; both through sanctuary and giving the PoS a paycheck so he could buy that gun. DPD still has his back. No one is riding in on a white horse to save us.