... Is it some kind a National fingers up to the government or just that you feel its an infringement on you personaly?
I would imagine that there are standards of safty on all elctrical equipment you buy , as there are on pharacuticals, food and cars in the US . So why not guns and ammunition .
Gunman,
Yes, it's a figurative flip to the gov't and we feel an infringement. Everytime a new law is made, it takes some freedom away.
There are currently no laws preventing people in the U.S. from doing many many things that could conceiveably have dangerous consequences. Should we have laws for all of that? How about people that want to do their own work on cars? Just think, if someone did the brakes incorrectly on their car and they failed. They could kill a number of people. How about the unsuspecting buyer of a used car worked on by an owner? A law in the U.S. preventing unlicensed owners from working on their own car could completely destroy a huge aftermarket "hotrod" industry that employs numbers likely in the tens of thousands or possibly more. The 'law of unintended consequences' is repeated over and over as new laws are legislated.
Our municipal, county, state, and federal governments are all in financial trouble. Yet people want more laws. Each law costs money to create, maintain and enforce. We have full-time legislators that have a work product that costs something to us. Our human resources manager told us in our firsts manager meeting of the year that there were 760 new laws from federal, state, and local gov't. Then, when our federal legislators get bored, they create criminals by having "investigative hearings" and when someone like a baseball player doesn't tell the truth about taking steroids years ago, he is pursued by our federal gov't at the cost of millions to the public. All for what?
So, yes! It's a finger to the gov't. Why do you ask?
