[turnpike boy]

Originally Posted by VRM

Hmmm, maybe you should just go read the thing for yourself.
http://www.cbp.gov/linkhandler/cgov/.../43genno21.pdf

Start reading around page 5. It gets good and technical around page 25.

Hhmmm....you're right, and I was wrong.

The protocol had been around since 1971, when 15 CFR was implemented -after being adopted in 1958.

That's, what? - 38 years (adopted) ? I guess I was way off . And, of course, ol' Mr. McCray saw nothing wrong with some submitted knives in August of 2008 - when he was just another Republican flunky under GW Bush - and permitted their entry and sale. Just as several of his predecessors had done, as early as 2004. Bush administration, tho.

But in April 2009 - now under the GodSent Administration - he suddenly sees the light and error of his ways, and sends God's Own lightning out and rescinds not only his own prior judgment, but those of his predecessors as far back as 2004.

Which - of course - was the George Bush era.

Hhmm. Maybe I shouldn't have read it closer. Then again, maybe you should have, too.