What, if any, federal gun laws do you think will be passed during the current "we must do something" hysterics?
It may seem as if I waited to the last minute to answer this month's question, but actually I started very early. In fact I had several "laws" right off the top of my head that I wrote down and I kept concocting nastier and nastier restrictions and requirements and prohibitions as if I
really wanted to stifle gun ownership and use.
I will not share any of those with you. I regard them as potentially toxic and I would not want to think that my list prompted somebody into thinking my weird ideas would make good policy.
What scares me most is that some of the worst actions I can imagine don't even have to be passed as federal gun laws.
Here is a list of some of the alphabet organizations which at various times have gone rogue and implemented policies that work against people in most dangerous manners.
Note, I have written the names out so my friend
@Daryll from England can play along.
BLM --- Bureau of Land Management
BATFE --- Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives; sometimes just ATF [F-Troop]
FBI --- Federal Bureau of Investigation
EPA --- Environmental Protection Agency
OSHA --- Occupational Safety and Health Administration
CDC --- Centers for Disease Control
CIA --- Central Intelligence Agency
CPSC --- Consumer Product Safety Commission
--- Counsel on Environmental Quality
GAB --- Grammar Acceptance Bureau
HHS ---Health and Human Services Department [Cabinet Level]
DHS --- Department of Homeland Security
DOJ ---Department of Justice
FDIC --- Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
All of these organizations [and more] have policy making abilities that tempt them to "go rogue" and skirt any legislative requirements.
A sad example is the DOJ's use of the FDIC to enforce
Operation Choke Point [during Obama administration] to deny banking services to targeted business, including firearms businesses.
Not only is your business at risk, these guys will flat kill you. Look at the ATF and FBI participation at Ruby Ridge, Idaho, where FBI agent Lon Horiuchi fatally shot Randy Weaver's wife and 10-month old daughter.
So I don't fear "Federal Gun Laws" so much... I can see those coming. The rogue rules and programs of the agencies, bureaus and departments are a more insidious basket of threats.