{"id":1996,"date":"2008-11-04T09:56:56","date_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:56:56","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hogonice.com\/?p=1996"},"modified":"2008-11-04T09:56:56","modified_gmt":"2008-11-04T13:56:56","slug":"you-forgot-your-jackboots","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/?p=1996","title":{"rendered":"You Forgot Your Jackboots"},"content":{"rendered":"

BATF Helpful?<\/em><\/p>\n

I owe the BATF an apology. Everyone talks about how the feds hate guns and want to take them away from us. But when I applied for my C&R license, the BATF contacted me twice to make sure my application was processed.<\/p>\n

I applied and gave them a credit card number. For some reason, they were not able to use it. They sent me a notice giving me 30 days to fix it, and I think they wanted a money order. I figured this was some sort of cheap ploy to get me to give up, because nobody wants to stand in line to get a money order. It’s ridiculous that any government agency would demand a money order in 2008; it’s idiotic.<\/p>\n

Sure enough, I forgot about the application, and I figured it was dead. Then they called me and told me to get off my butt and pay the fee. They said they would take a check. And they called again, when I took my time to get it in the mail.<\/p>\n

Some agencies, like the Patent and Trademark Office, really like to get fees. In fact, the PTO has a very damaging and stupid policy of dividing patents up into more patents, so you have to pay a fee for each one. Doesn’t sound like a big deal, until you think about the $450-per-hour lawyers who are paid to help applicants comply. It’s like the pinhead local sheriffs who set up speed traps; the town gets a hundred bucks from the ticket, and you end up paying a thousand dollars more per year in insurance in order to help them get that hundred bucks.<\/p>\n

Maybe this is what the BATF is up to, but I have to say, they are not trying to discourage me from getting a license.<\/p>\n

This will open the door to some fairly cool purchases, including an M1 carbine. Believe it or not, I am so trifling I put off buying guns because I don’t want to drive three miles to an FFL holder to pick them up.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

BATF Helpful? I owe the BATF an apology. Everyone talks about how the feds hate guns and want to take them away from us. But when I applied for my C&R license, the BATF contacted me twice to make sure my application was processed. I applied and gave them a credit card number. For some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-guns-hunting-fishing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1996"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1996\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/toolsofrenewal.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}