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Mr. 72,

We are in 100 percent agreement.

The article is loaded with mounds of "He-Said-She-Saids". Who knows what happened and it will probably take years to figure it out.

Also, it is my non-provable belief that ALL white collar federal prosecutions are politically motivated to some degree. I firmly believe that had Mr. Glock funnelled a bunch of that "Monopoly Money" into the Obama campaign, this case would not have seen the light of day. Do I agree with it? NOPE!! Do I like it?? NOPE!! That's just the way it is.

If Glock fiddled the books like what's implied, then they need to take a bath on this.

mr.72 wrote:The Glock issues and investigations predate the Obama administration.

I think it'd be a very bad idea for gun owners to defend disregard for the law by a gun manufacturer.

I agree that we need to follow the law and fragrant violators need to be prosecuted. My complaint is that some laws are written so that it's impossible to follow everything and that administrations then are able to pick and choose who they want to go after.

I guess I'll go ahead and read the article now.

seamusTX wrote: I have no opinion one way or the other. Tax and import-export law are so complicated that probably any company could be prosecuted if the investigation went deep enough.

- Jim

I've always felt that this complicating if laws is intentional. It is a tool that government uses it "legally" go after whoever they want to go after.

I was just on a thread about the liquor laws of Texas and how complicated they are. If the local government wants to shut down a bar, all one really has to do is go hang out there and observe what silly laws get broken and viola, the fines can start rolling in. It won't take long and that bar is gone.

Texas traffic laws are the same way. If an officer wants to pull over a car, it only would take a couple minutes before the officer would observe some sort of infraction and the lights can come on.

TAX LAWS?? The worst.

I don't know if the Glock story is true and on some levels, I don't care. I'm on my BlackBerry now so I haven't even read it but for my comment, I don't need to. This administration HATES private ownership of guns and if this makes firearms harder for us lowly citizens to get, that's their game. What better way to hurt the private firearms industry than to go after the biggest player that doesn't have any US military contracts (that I know of).