I agree that's a problem, but that's not what the OP was claiming. The OP asserted that CAF was extralegal, and it absolutely is not. The OP asserted that the

I agree that's a problem, but that's not what the OP was claiming. The OP asserted that CAF was extralegal, and it absolutely is not. The OP asserted that the "terrorists won" even though CAF predates 9/11 and was created to combat organize crime. (CAF laws in the U.S. date back to the 1700s, but were infrequently used until, roughly 1920 when they were used to target organized crime during Prohibition. The modern federal CAF law was passed in the 1984, to fight the "war on drugs", specifically referring to the drug cartels, and were modeled on the Prohibition Era CAF laws.)