[publiusF27]

The problem with this is it's reliability.

No, the problem with this is that no one can find any authorization in the enumerated powers of the Congress to give a quarter million taxpayer dollars to this company. And no, I don't buy the whole "regulating commerce among the several states" thing that politicians from both parties use when they can't find any real authorization for money they want to spend or laws they want to write.

Technical issues like reliability only come along AFTER the threshold question.

[Navy Patriot]

AFTER the threshold question

Yep, I got off subject, and was looking at the technology.

The appropriation was unconstitutional, as you say, and most "gun control" laws and regs are also unconstitutional, period.