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lazarus said:

Maybe. Part of the charges include the fact that he structured $68,000 in deposits to his credit union in an attempt to avoid their reporting the transactions. If true, seems like he very much knew what he was doing was in the wrong.

You can be stupid and also think you are clever AF. Which is often the case that people, criminals and otherwise, think they are a whole lot smarter than they really are.

Everything I find is fairly clear the cards are etched and the exact correct dimensions. This isn’t a figurative drawing or scale representation. At best he got too cute. In all likelihood he was intending to sell them so people could convert them or sell them to people who hoped they could convert them and were willing to pay $100 a pop.

Most certainly doesn’t sound like he was trying to do some “noble second amendment audit” BS or anything like that.

The financial part is as likely why he has been held without bail. It shows an intent to hide finances. So prosecutors and the judge likely can’t be all that confident he doesn’t have tens of thousands stashed away somewhere to access and go on the lamb. He probably isn’t a flight risk. But I can’t at least see their perspective, even if I disagree with it.

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wabbit said:

This reminds me of a funny incident I had with TSA at Dulles airport. I was flying back to the middle east and had a bag of powdered sugar from Walmart in my carry on luggage and the TSA agent's eyes opened real wide when he saw the bag of white powder after openning my luggage. He broke out the drug test kit and was really disappointed it was just a bag of sugar. I had an hour to kill before my flight was boarding so I just enjoyed the comedy show put on by the TSA agent and his supervisor. Our tax dollars at work.

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Muleskinner said:

This goes back to defining what a firearm (or a firearm part) is..Unless it can load and discharge a fully loaded cartridge NOTHING should be considered a gun...Not a barrel, not a receiver and certainly not a piece of aluminum etched or not. The current definition of a firearm is such so that the government can make it easier to put people in prison...nothing else...Since I can make a fully functional crude shotgun from 2 pieces of pipe, a pipe cap and a nail does that mean I have a gun if I have all 4 of those components in my home but not assembled? Apparently so...it's just stupid.

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Nickberg500 said:

Taxation is theft

Not sure why we're supporting the feds enforcing laws that shouldn't exist. Who cares what amount you deposit, or if you don't pay your taxes? Sounds like socialism.

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lazarus said:

I am not. More of the “well, okay stupid games, win stupid prizes”. Am I supposed to have sympathy for people who do that? Because I generally don’t.

And taxes are a result of there being a government. A government can’t exist without them. And when it comes down to it, modern society can’t exist without some kind of government to create and enforce laws.

I definitely buy an argument that tax rates or what is taxed is wrong. But since I don’t want to live in a cave wondering if the next person I meet wants to trade or cave my head in, I support there being some form of government and thus some kind of taxes.

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lazarus said:

I am not. More of the “well, okay stupid games, win stupid prizes”. Am I supposed to have sympathy for people who do that? Because I generally don’t.

And taxes are a result of there being a government. A government can’t exist without them. And when it comes down to it, modern society can’t exist without some kind of government to create and enforce laws.

I definitely buy an argument that tax rates or what is taxed is wrong. But since I don’t want to live in a cave wondering if the next person I meet wants to trade or cave my head in, I support there being some form of government and thus some kind of taxes.

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outrider58 said:

^^^This

I haven not, nor have I seen anyone support the BATFE in this thread.

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teratos said:

No. Literally the fun police.

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lazarus said:

I am not. More of the “well, okay stupid games, win stupid prizes”. Am I supposed to have sympathy for people who do that? Because I generally don’t.

And taxes are a result of there being a government. A government can’t exist without them. And when it comes down to it, modern society can’t exist without some kind of government to create and enforce laws.

I definitely buy an argument that tax rates or what is taxed is wrong. But since I don’t want to live in a cave wondering if the next person I meet wants to trade or cave my head in, I support there being some form of government and thus some kind of taxes.

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outrider58 said:

^^^This

I haven not, nor have I seen anyone support the BATFE in this thread.

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Nickberg500 said:

Sorry if this came off strong here. I'm biased, I have a family member who's retired, bankrupt parents with late stage Alzheimer's are being robbed by the IRS over taxes. To the point the feds stopped their house from being sold until it was sorted out, holding them hostage and making it monetarily impossible to lawyer up and fight the BS numbers the IRS came up with.

Very much a fan of getting rid of 3 letter agencies, starting with the IRS and ATF.

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