A thought

I read that the Department of Homeland Security will begin to start protecting us from glow bull warmering.

Just taking it on themselves to start regulating without a law to enforce.

I see this a great deal with government agencies.

It's called mission creep in some circles.

What we have is Congress not doing their jobs and pawning it off on the agency tasked with enforcing the laws.  They make regulations that are supposed to have the effect of enforcing the law.

My favorite example is BATFE and there are oh so many examples.

Let's start with the form 4473.  Where is the law that says you have to fill this thing out?  There isn't one.  What it is for is to keep prohibited people from buying guns.  The law about that says who cannot own a gun, and you answer Y-E-S or N-O to each of the disqualifying  things.

Not that a felon would lie or anything.  Thanks to the Brady Act, we have NICS.  NICS checks to see if you were being honest with your answers.  Why do we still have the form?

If we are going to have such a thing as a NICS, we should just call them up, give them our name  and address and it should give a GO/NO-GO for the sale.  No need for a paper record at all to satisfy the law.

Next is anything having to do with the National Firearms Act (NFA).  The law says I have to pay a tax to buy or make something regulated by the NFA.  But there's no law requiring the extensive background check.  It should be send in the $200, pass NICS and collect my gun.

There's lots more.

The real solution is to end regulatory agencies altogether.