[xoxoxoBruce]

The only fault I find with that is the hoge poge of conflicting laws and regulations across the country. Some places you need high and low beams, turn signals, clearance lights, tail and brake lights, and license plate light. In another you need one tail light, period. The only way to avoid that is uniform federal laws, and that leads to the state's rights quagmire.

One year I bought a lever action .22 rifle as a Christmas present for a friend in New Jersey. I gave it to him and he took it home, no problem. I'd hate to see the red tape and expense of requiring us both go to a dealer, pay for a transfer, and arrange for an interstate transport permit. But that's what would happen if they tried to outlaw back alley Saturday night special sales. The irony is it would be a big hassle for me, and have no effect on the back alley deals at all.

One of the main reasons people are disgusted with the feds is they pass laws to do something good, but the collateral damage is intolerable.

For example, back home there is a river through the center of town, less than a hundred feet wide, less than three feet deep and moving pretty slowly in it's normal state. A guy living next to it had a lawn down to it with a couple trees along the edge. A storm blew one of the trees down and it fell into the river but still attached to the stump, so he yanked it out and cut it up for firewood.
The environmental cops fined him $10,000 because of some federal law to regulate loggers in the west.

That shit, and the current state of congress/politics creates a solid distrust of anything the feds do.