I keep telling you the smart guys are on our team
Gene and the guys at the Calguns Foundation are awesome. In a piece on microstamping, the Paper of making up the Record points out:
In California, legislation signed by Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger in 2007 has been held up while the attorney general’s office makes sure the technology is unencumbered by patents, as the microstamping law requires. A gun rights group, the Calguns Foundation, went so far as to pay a $555 fee to extend a lapsing patent held by the developer to further delay the law from taking effect.
“It was a lot cheaper to keep the patent in force than to litigate over the issues,” said Gene Hoffman, the chairman of the foundation, adding that he believed the law amounted to a gun ban in California.
Also, it struck me that I read these articles and I actually know and have met the people mentioned. Two, in that article.
June 14th, 2012 at 1:25 pm
You’ve met Arnie?
June 14th, 2012 at 2:15 pm
What moron comments. Stating outright that circumventing laws is what criminals do, therefore we need the laws. Tell ya what, pull the firing pin, kiss it with the MIG, file it to spec, and abrade the bolt. Ain nothin bein printed on nothin. Meanwhile, we’ve all had to pay for this shit. Oh, only $12? How can you put a cap on what something costs? The manufacturer has to pay for it? Yeah, and where do they get their money? Stupid should hurt, and I’d like to make it hurt personally for some of these schmendricks.
June 14th, 2012 at 3:51 pm
Reminds me of this joke:
A man is afraid someone is hiding under his bed every night. Rather than see a psychiatrist to battle his fear through many months of expensive visits, he instead saws off the legs to his bed. “Ain’t nobody hiding under there now!”