sunandsand
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"according to some fear mongering nitwits,"
(Off topic, but I really want to get this off my chest . . . please indulge me.)
In a past life, I was an independent mortgage broker - never did a sub-prime loan, never will. The mortgage crash of 2008 was blamed on mortgage brokers primarily because everyone else in the business (TBTF banks, Wall Street, etc.) had better lobbyists. I decided not to renew my license when the stack of papers for a mortgage got to be a foot thick with two pages on the actual mortgage and the rest of the papers were who you could get to sue the mortgage broker and for how much, and for free.
Instead, I got a third class FFL, "Curio and Relic". As it turns out, anything over 50 years old isn't considered a weapon any more (!) by BATF and falls under this third class category. What this means is that I can go and buy a fully functional 20mm Lahti anti-tank gun with live armor-piercing ammunition and tow it around behind my car in broad daylight, completely, totally, 100% legally. This is evidently less of a risk to the republic than a $10,000 second mortgage on a chicken coop. (And it does tend to keep noisy neighbors in line and discourage trespassers.)
Carried to its logical extreme, since I live on an airstrip, and since Fat Man and Little Boy are over 50 years old and not considered weapons any more, I could find myself a B-29, and could have my very own nuclear deterrent. I would have to get a multi-engine rating to be legal, though.
Personally, I am very glad we do not get all the government we are paying for.
Best Regards,
Mike/Florida
I wasn't here, this discussion never took place.
;-)
(Off topic, but I really want to get this off my chest . . . please indulge me.)
In a past life, I was an independent mortgage broker - never did a sub-prime loan, never will. The mortgage crash of 2008 was blamed on mortgage brokers primarily because everyone else in the business (TBTF banks, Wall Street, etc.) had better lobbyists. I decided not to renew my license when the stack of papers for a mortgage got to be a foot thick with two pages on the actual mortgage and the rest of the papers were who you could get to sue the mortgage broker and for how much, and for free.
Instead, I got a third class FFL, "Curio and Relic". As it turns out, anything over 50 years old isn't considered a weapon any more (!) by BATF and falls under this third class category. What this means is that I can go and buy a fully functional 20mm Lahti anti-tank gun with live armor-piercing ammunition and tow it around behind my car in broad daylight, completely, totally, 100% legally. This is evidently less of a risk to the republic than a $10,000 second mortgage on a chicken coop. (And it does tend to keep noisy neighbors in line and discourage trespassers.)
Carried to its logical extreme, since I live on an airstrip, and since Fat Man and Little Boy are over 50 years old and not considered weapons any more, I could find myself a B-29, and could have my very own nuclear deterrent. I would have to get a multi-engine rating to be legal, though.
Personally, I am very glad we do not get all the government we are paying for.
Best Regards,
Mike/Florida
I wasn't here, this discussion never took place.
;-)