Hawkeye
The Leatherstocking
- Jan 29, 2009
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Your argument is not with me. It is with whom ever published the list on the MDSP Website.
Absolutely. Like I said above, I have a huge issue with the MSP overstepping with their "helpful" website list. Their exact words, however, when Nate challenged them on it, were "ask the FFL or the manufacturer if it is banned." Therefore, if the FFL determines it is not banned, they can sell it if they want to.
I understand that you were trying to be helpful to both the FFL and the customer as well as the community, but as long as disinformation keeps getting spread, the situation is not going to get better. Perhaps a helpful way to approach it would have been to explain to the FFL that although the gun is listed on the MSP website, it is not in fact banned, and they can sell it if they want to. (Like many IPs here do, and no one has been arrested.)
I get the argument that you're making, and we all remember what happened with the two guys who got arrested there a while back over the magazine capacity issue. But look at the other side of that coin, because the news story could be "MSP illegally arrests a gun buyer who did nothing wrong," and some light could get shined on the whole issue.
If we, as gun owners, buyers, sellers, etc, are doing nothing wrong, we shouldn't have to slink around in the dark.