Well just spitballing- if I have to choose between giving up 1 million in revenue and spending 8 million fighting The Man, I may very well choose to forego the revenue.
I see it as "see what shit we can get away with while everyone is distracted."
I also see it (and the bumpstock thing) as a dry run for if the Dems take the house and senate but not the white house and pass a national AR registration. Because Trumpy will sign that shit if they put it on his desk.
That would be the Executive Branch agency controlled by POTUS who, like many of said agencies, write rules and regulations which act as federal "laws" in the absence of the Legislative Branch doing their fucking job.
Or, in the case of bumpstocks, actually *contravening* federal law via...
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A year ago with that budget you could put together something really really nice.
Now, you probably still can but have to really dig to find the parts in stock and you are going to overpay but it certainly can be done and probably very well with that budget.
I second the Thordsen, the...