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I thought two guns were enough, but many may disagree now that Obama has a $5M/year personal militia that was outlined in the health care bill. The most questionable section for me was the part of the "Warrant Officer". Does that mean that there is going to be a sqad of soliders arresting people? This may result in yet another boost to the firearms industry.
While the bill sucks, all that section does is amend the existing Public Health Service Act to allow expansion of its size and availability to handle any real or perceived increase in need. The section doesn't establish any new enforcement/police authority, an armed body, or rooms full of brainwashed urban high-schoolers stepping to pro-Obama chants before being sent by the local ACORN office to argue with or intimidate people sporting Republic bumper stickers (again).
The USPHS was called a corps over 100 years before Obama, has existed in some form since John Adams' day, and these amendments in and of themselves simply allow for expansion of the Officer Corps and provide reserve personnel to administer to emergency health needs on a large scale, such as in the case of a pandemic, natural disaster, or perhaps the fallout of an economic collapse. They also investigate emerging public health concerns with regard to food, drugs, and disease. They are not an armed service in any sense. The military rank and organizational structure simply serves command, control, and esprit de corps.
The Surgeon General doesn't carry a sidearm and neither do her subordinates, and the Navy uniforms go back over a century as well. The Corps is comprised of doctors, nurses, medics, and researchers, and the Reserve Corps could very well include your family doctor. A "warrant officer" is, in keeping with the military terminology used, usually a rank reserved for a highly experienced senior person with specialized knowledge given leadership similar to a commissioned officer despite not meeting formal degree requirements. Therefore, they are made officers by "warrant" rather than by "commission." It has nothing to do with arrest warrants, though.
Regardless of the ineffective and nefarious fundamentals of the bill's approach to the overall healthcare system in the US and its framework for and implementation of government control and regulations utilizing existing enforcement channels (IRS/FBI), this particular provision doesn't change anything significant.
But yes, I'm sure the chain emails on this one will account for a few extra guns in some folks' collections.
Any new photos? :-P
Back to the question asked, though, are you still on target for a July release?
Thanks for clarifying that - I guess I feel a little bit better about it now.
We will be making some new pics once we get the new grips - they were supposed to mold them this week. VMole8 said:While the bill sucks, all that section does is amend the existing Public Health Service Act to allow expansion...Snip>> Any new photos? :-P
In July we are talking about making a run of prototypes and put several hundred rounds through each just to qualify our production process.
Sanford Walke said:Back to the question asked, though, are you still on target for a July release?
Need any help running rounds through them? :>
Arne Boberg said:In July we are talking about making a run of prototypes and put several hundred rounds through each just to qualify our production process.
Sanford Walke said:Back to the question asked, though, are you still on target for a July release?
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