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The lengths to which government will go in order to ensnare someone know no bounds. That is why we have courts, and why even slam-dunk cases must be tried with due process. Let me give you an example:
Back in the 1980s a bachelor farmer in the Midwest was targeted because it was noticed that he ordered porno from an outfit that specialized in male models (MODELS?? ) who looked considerably younger than 18 but were certified per USC to be 18 or older. For about three years they bombarded him with teaser mailings featuring cropped pictures of pubescent boys. Finally the guy bit, and they reeled him in.
Afterhe had gone through what many here would think of as a well-deserved hell, the Supreme Court ruled that three years of being tempted by the government was entrapment writ large. He had made every effort to stay within the law, but the government determined that what underlaid his efforts to do so was a desire to go "over the line" and so they spent three years trying to trip him up.
Can you imagine one of us getting Emails promising some way of getting around for example full-auto restrictions without a class III pernit, and finally biting, and getting arrested? Oh, I would love to have a FA weapon - they are fun to shoot, and if you never have fired FA you do not know what you are missing - but I try to stay within the law, as do we all.
Point is, you have to be careful. Once you have been targeted for prosecution, you will be tempted again and again One nibble and the hook is set, the boots are kicking the door open, and the game is afoot.
The good news is that owning and shooting a firearm is not looked upon in the same manner as enjoying viewing photographs of naked boys .....yet.
