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Correct. I've gotten used to dumbing it down to Brady (because very few people have heard of VPC) that I forgot that it was unnecessary for this audience. Tha

• hga 11y ago
  You're very welcome. And, yeah, well, I suppose we might be the two most "expert" on this subject, with my having joined the gun politics battle in the early 1970s (sic), and you having worked at the ATF (!!!, I hope that was a youthful indiscretion! :-). I'm just particularly ... sensitive? in that the Brady groups are now really fading (see especially their $$$ lawsuit loss WRT to the Colorado movie theater shooting), and Bloomberg replacing them as the big threat. Hmmm, haven't heard much about the VPC since I and many other research minions helped Clayton Cramer destroy their "Concealed Carry Killers" paper.
  • bmelton 11y ago
    "I'm just particularly ... sensitive?" attuned is, I think, the word you're looking for. As for my dalliance at the ATF, it was, frankly, about three years worth of time in which I had not yet developed much of a political conscience. Actually working for the government has helped shape much of my opinions of the government, and in most ways, for the poorer. Politics aside, I would have a very hard time convincing myself to work for any of the agencies again, if only because I can't bear to watch tens of millions of dollars evaporate when someone's opinion changes, or an election year happens, or the government decides that, despite having gotten to year 4 of the project with all milestones succeeding, they've neglected to budget for years 5+.