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There's another thread on this. See here. My comment there:

Kudos to Gibson.
I hadn't been following this story as closely as I'd like. What I find shameful is that there was little action on the part of Tennessee Congressional Representatives in either defense of Gibson or to fix the Lacey Act. Lamar Alexander (R-TN) co-sponsored the Amendment to the Lacey Act in 2008 that included wood in its wording. Government agencies then interpreted this as a violation due to a clerical error on the part of the company that imported the wood for Gibson. The larger issues here, for me, are the outrageous government response to what has been coined a 'civil matter' and the fact that neither can I find any action on the part of Congress to fix the Lacey Act nor any action on the part of Tennessee Congressmen on the part of Gibson. Gibson may very well have been on both sides of the fence, politically (smart business), but the result seems to have left then out in the cold.
I wait with bated breath the outing of this Special Edition guitar on a nationally-televised musical event. (color me 'blue')

Seeing the additional posts and reading comments, I went back to dig a bit. I found the following:

Gibson Guitar Corp. Responds to Federal Raid

Gibson Les Paul Guitars With Less Ebony

Gibson Guitar Corporation admits to importing endangered wood

India import led to probe at 2 Tenn. Gibson Guitar plants

Gibson guitars set to miss Indian notes as raids in US and Europe on Gibson's facilities continue

Now The Gibson Guitar Raids Make SenseNow The Gibson Guitar Raids Make Sense

In my opinion, I think it's clear that things are 'not clear'. I leave it to someone else with more time than I to wade through all the BS, but hold to my opinion above. There is also the apparently UNRESOLVED ISSUE of 'possession of endangered woods'; you all know what that means.

"Now there are 4,500 laws and hundreds of thousands of regulations that no one, not even a lawyer, not a judge, could possibly know. Furthermore, there is no central location or website that an average citizen can go to find out what the federal crimes are. And that matters when intent does not have to be proven to be convicted," Paul Larkin, senior legal research fellow at the Heritage Foundation, told Newsmax.

From here:

Last year, Blackburn and fellow U.S. Reps. Jim Cooper of Nashville, a Democrat, introduced legislation they said would protect people from charges for unknowingly possessing illegally imported wood, and would require the federal government to establish a database of forbidden wood sources.

Last October: US reps seek new law after raids at Gibson guitars

Officials with the U.S. Justice Department and the Interior Department in a letter to members of Congress last month said it is not a crime to "unknowingly possess" such instruments, and that prosecutors would target only "those who are removing protected species from the wild and making a profit by trafficking in them." Blackburn said the bill would make that approach the law. "We don't want individuals to have to depend on the language of that letter," she said.

Well, the only legislation 'I' can find at congress.gov is H.R.3280, and it's languishing in Committee...

Great post! I appreciate your including the link to the When Republicans Were Blue and Democrats Were Red article.

I remember wondering wtf? when the colors got switched to make the formerly red commie demonrats now the blue party and the former party with the "I'd rather be dead than red" cred went red. Huh?!?

I'm easily confused anyway, but especially so by their tactic of continually adopting and/or changing accepted terminology to advance their agendas against a fomerly intractable and determined opposition.

Ahh...the "good ol' days"...I'm now so old that I remember when "gay apparel" just meant the Christmas season, instead of what happens to fashion challenged heterosexual men on TV.

Apparently, the first Tower of Babble's fall wasn't enough, so now we're building the twin tower sequel? Babble on, Garth.

Rep. Cooper first introduced the Retailers and Entertainers Lacey Implementation and Enforcement Fairness (RELIEF) Act, H.R.3280. Rep. Blackburn joined as a co-sponsor later.

The House Committee on Natural Resources favorably reported the RELIEF Act by a vote of 25-19 on June 7, 2012.

Unfortunately, on July 19, House Republican leaders canceled plans for a floor vote and effectively pulled the bill from further consideration by the 112th Congress.

From that point, it's as you say - "it's languishing in Committee."