“If all US based guitar makers use these blanks, I would guess Gibson got picked on because it is the biggest consumer of them. Holder’s trying to make them an example by this very dubious action.”
Their CEO is a HUGE GOP donor. The only one in this industry, from what I can find in research.
This isn’t even the worst thing the Obama administration has apparently tried to do as a ruse for furthering the Democrat jihad, if Gibson’s GOP connections are why.
How about the Gunrunner scandal? Knowingly lifting existing safeguards that were working in order to flood the clandestine Mexican gun market (mostly going to drug cartels) with US made guns so that they could later point and scream that existing safeguards were not working. That’s a funny game till somebody gets shot (which some U.S. somebodies did).