Where Politics And Video Games Collide

Are you kidding me? With drug dealers everywhere, murder, porous borders, terrorism the Feds are concerned about game mods?? Holy crap.

Generally speaking, it's much safer for the Feds to go kicking in doors over minor crimes in small towns and such than it is to go after real criminals. ;)

jakethe8lf: "You have a second amendmant, use it. Take back your government!"

Not for long. Speaking of Feds gone wild in Idaho, google "Red's Trading Post." Long story short, Red's is a 70 year-old, family owned, small town gun shop that the Feds have been harassing for the last five or six years. Now, I'm all for prosecuting real, shady arms dealers, but there are no charges of any guns from this shop being used in crimes. The ATF has been spending millions of dollars to fly agents out from Seattle every two weeks for several years because they found a few minor paperwork errors before. Think undotted i's and uncrossed t's, and forms with "Y" or "N" instead of "yes" or "no."

If this was just a matter of an across-the-board crackdown on illicit arms, that would be one thing. But if you ask your local police when was the last time the ATF or DOJ brought Federal charges (felon in possession, smuggling across State lines, etc..) against an actual criminal, they'll tell you it's quite rare. If ever. For the most part, the Feds are so busy trying to bully legitimate gun shops out of business that they (conveniently) don't have time to chase dangerous criminals.

If they eventually close all the shops, the Second Amendment would become obsolete. Kinda hard to keep and bear something you can't buy. :p

But, yea, apply this reasoning (or lack thereof) to mod chips, and is really any surprise they're wasting time and taxpayer money on them?