docwill wrote:
It's primarily aimed at the firearms industry (tobacco is too well-connected, too rich, too big, too diversified and too international for the Feds to get much leverage plus the states need all that tax and lawsuit money). The gov't is "choking" the industry by scaring the banks (FDIC audits, "RICO," should a customer run afoul and simple bureaucratic harassment) which then refuse to service the industry with credit sales, commercial loans and even just basic banking services. The Fed's have served warrants for customer lists and, ignoring a prior restraining-order, performed a fully-armored SWAT-raid taking not just mailing lists but computers and (apparently) inventory (sorry, can't multitask this handheld).
Closing that lead-smelter and buying 1.5B rounds are likely a part of it as well. This, unfortunately, is not tinfoil-hat conspiracy talk. Increasing financial burdens on producers, distributors and customers plus complicating ownership and t***sactions (yearly licensing plus fees) can be effected 'administratively' and beneath the radar and achieves, "through other means," close enough to an outright ban.
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All you say is so true that most left leaners won't be able to lean on any of it so they just won't try, I am sure.