{"id":160,"date":"2009-01-07T22:53:46","date_gmt":"2009-01-08T02:53:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/2009\/01\/07\/the-%e2%80%9cblues%e2%80%9d-spread-the-blues%e2%80%a6again\/"},"modified":"2009-01-07T22:53:46","modified_gmt":"2009-01-08T02:53:46","slug":"the-blues-spread-the-bluesagain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/the-blues-spread-the-bluesagain\/","title":{"rendered":"THE \u201cBLUES\u201d SPREAD THE BLUES\u2026AGAIN"},"content":{"rendered":"

When was it, exactly, that the left became the \u201cblues\u201d and everyone else became the \u201creds\u201d? I was from that generation that grew up huddling under elementary school desks in \u201catomic bomb drills\u201d and being told by teachers that Communism was evil, and now folks like me are called \u201cReds\u201d ?!?!?<\/p>\n

A new \u201cblue\u201d scheme currently underway (yes, founder Dave Duffy has checked it out, and assures us it is true) is the already drafted Ammunition Accountability Act. You can read about it here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Let\u2019s think about that. The technology to make ammunition \u201caccountable,\u201d \u2013 cartridge by cartridge, shell by shell, casing by casing, projectile for projectile \u2013 is largely vaporware and almost entirely unproven. It will be hugely expensive. Affordable ammunition for practice, competition, hunting and home defense will become a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

Notice also the very early expiration date at which all previously owned \u201cold, low-tech\u201d ammo would become illegal to possess. One must ask, what would the law abiding citizen do with it? It could not be sold. Property lawfully purchased and responsibly owned would become contraband: there would be huge ex post facto issues here, and some serious Constitutional issues as well. And that\u2019s before we start looking at vast collective tonnage of \u201chazardous materials\u201d that some Governmental entity would be responsible for storing or destroying. Did any of the idiots who drafted this stuff even discuss the ramifications with EPA and OSHA?<\/p>\n

If, like most rural folks, you\u2019re a gun owner, you\u2019ve found an old box of ammo or maybe just a single cartridge in an unexpected, forgotten place. After a certain date, if this BS becomes law, that would make you a law-breaker. Roughly half of our population \u2013 far more than half in rural areas \u2013 owns or have owned guns and ammunition, which means that if such laws come to pass, they will unnecessarily criminalize half of our citizenry.<\/p>\n

Look this stuff up. Find out if yours is one of the states that might put you in the crosshairs of this insanity. And start writing every elected official (and appointed official, such as chiefs of police who would have to enforce this stupidity) and let them know where you stand.<\/p>\n

This drafted legislation reaches a literally mind-boggling level of ignorance and foolishness, and if it goes unchallenged, the \u201cblues\u201d will have a lot of us \u201csinging the blues.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When was it, exactly, that the left became the \u201cblues\u201d and everyone else became the \u201creds\u201d? I was from that generation that grew up huddling under elementary school desks in \u201catomic bomb drills\u201d and being told by teachers that Communism was evil, and now folks like me are called \u201cReds\u201d ?!?!? A new \u201cblue\u201d scheme […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":6428,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,6],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-160","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-ammunition","8":"category-firearm-owners-civil-rights"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=160"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/160\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6428"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=160"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=160"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.backwoodshome.com\/blogs\/MassadAyoob\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=160"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}