Congress passed the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, or HR 4040, a retroactive rule mandating that all items sold for use by children under 12 must be tested by an independent party for lead and phthalates, which are chemicals used to make plastics more pliable.I haven't even read the bill let alone analyzed it. If you have time, it's here.
All untested items, regardless of lead content, are to be declared "banned hazardous products.'' The CPSC has already determined the law applies to every children's item on shelves, not just to items made beginning Feb. 10. [More]
WarOnGuns correspondent Rova speculates:
Youth shotguns and rifles that use lead bullet components in ammunition come immediately to mind - as a worst-case back-door.Avg Joe, who sent me the WND link says:
I broke my teeth shooting in Boy Scouts, this of course is going to go after bullets as well. So children under 12 will no longer be allowed to shoot but for steel shot if they make it for a 410 or BB guns with steel BB's.
Anyone aware of any current warnings from the major gun groups?
Not only is this going to be a back door attack on teaching kids how to shoot. This is an act of war on free thinkers by taking away their businesses. This goes after the folks who supply books for "home schoolers". Got that this is using lead to steal an affordable way for children's folks to home school them so the kids are not turned into zombies in the government schools.
ReplyDeleteIn a way this is an act of war against the American people. It grows the federal government in ways that it was never Constitutionally able and stickes it to freedom. Free thinking people who own their own businesses are the enemy to government parasites who want the citizens to march to the government drum beat.
This is so wrong and runs so deep into so many areas of private citizens lives. I'm sure many will see it as nothing other than an act of war against freedom for more government control.
One other point: between both houses of congress onlhy 4 men voted against this bill.
ReplyDeleteClearly there is little if any line between the two parties but the address to send them money.
Seemingly this bill shows that both parties are very much the same as in one party. The two parties are going to take us to the very same place, the only difference is what road they will take to get us there.
No, but please oppose this legislation. And voice opposition...
ReplyDeleteMy wife is involved in a lot of sites that are small children's clothes and toys retailers. Mainly stay at home mom's who make hand-crafted toys, clothes and baby gear.
This law potentially puts them ALL out of business. As it mandates certain testing that costs thousands of dollars.
It's another poorly thought out, poorly worded legislation from our poor saps in government.
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The economy is still twitching. They want to put a (non-lead) bullet through its medulla.
ReplyDeleteRetroactive is, hey, unconstitutional to begin with. Ex post facto, after the fact. Specifically prohibited in the Bill of Rights.
They don't think anyone knows or cares about that stuff anymore.
Four "no" votes? EVERYBODY's against poisoning kids, just like EVERYBODY's against crime, right? That's why homeless people eat out of Dumpsters and get food poisoning: because charity soup kitchens are held to profit-making restaurant standards and can't operate under those restrictions. But the few homeless who CAN get a meal a day have FRESH food, and that makes the Overseers feel GOOD!
Funny. Around me -- except for working people afraid their jobs will disappear -- life seems pretty normal.
This is an act of war against the American family with full intent.
ReplyDeleteNeed proof?
The government hauls the kids on school buses twice a day without seat belts.
i have a warning:
ReplyDeletego ahead and try to enforce that.
Ex post facto, after the fact. Specifically prohibited in the Bill of Rights.
ReplyDeleteMinor nit: it is in Article 1, Section 9, Clause 3 as relates to Congress. Article 1, Section 10, Clause 1 as relates to States.
Yeah man, but it's the Age of Prohibition, and contraband doesn't have rights.
ReplyDeleteWhat's that you say? Enforcing anti-property laws still violates your liberty? Sorry, we can't hear you--we have reams of unconstitutional statues stuffed in our ears.