First off, Taprackbang, check your windows--the black helicopters are just over the horizon. It's flat here in DFW, you should be able to see them coming for a ways.
Unlike you, and many others I suspect, I've actually spent a decent amount of time working with various ATF personnel. So long as they confine their activities to criminal investigations and enforcement (rather than cherry picking "regulatory" opportunities), they have a vast array of abilities and sources that are useful in prosecuting and locking up the very criminals who end up costing the rest of us a little bit more in rights each day.
Secondly, if the NRA starts publicly wailing about "destroy BATFE" and "disbanding" other gov't agencies, they will lose a lot of support on the Hill. Politics 101. Besides, as I just said, I've worked with ATF agents before. Their resources for investigating arson and explosives are superb. Hell, when we'd find stacks of weapons in with drug stashes, ATF could backtrace the serial numbers all the way to the manufacturer, and then we'd found out where these weapons came from.
Quite a few illegal dealers out there who are in business to sell to criminals and criminal organization. I'm sure you've heard of money laundering. There's also "gun cleaners" out there who try and do the same with firearms.
Local authorities simply do not have the resources to trace these kinds of guns.
So, I'd respectfully suggest looking into and for some objective facts before you go maligning the NRA fo ra stance in which who only have a modicum of actual knowledge about. It'll give your opinions far more credence.
Those who hate Kimber seem to be the ones who can't afford to buy one. A pretty petty excuse.
Maybe so. Maybe not. I can afford to buy a kimber for every room in our house if I wanted, but quite honestly, the gun has just never appealed to me.
I do think the JPFO is, once again, way off the mark in calling for a boycott of Kimber for simply designing and offering a firearm for a particular group of law enforcement officers, for whom the weapon will be beneficial.
If it is California politics that JPFO has a problem with, why not call for a complete boycott of any and all things California?
Jeff