[Constantine XIII]

"It is a crime to possess something if you don't have a legal purpose to possess it." Hrmmmmm...who decides what a "legal purpose" for something is? I wonder what he thinks "legal purposes" for firearms are?

[Britton J Wingfield]

Check the labelling on any household chemical. Using them in any way not consistent with the approve uses on the label may constitute a felony, i.e. don't sniff paint or make a bomb out of draino.

[DAnconia55]

"There is legal possession and there is illegal possession," said U.S. Atty. Patrick Fitzgerald. "It is a crime to possess something if you don't have a legal purpose to possess it."

Ain't that just Amazing?
They have made it a crime to possess naturally occuring chemicals and Elements of the Periodic Table. Atoms. The State thinks it owns the nature of the Universe :)

Very interesting, and immoral.
One can only get away with cheating reality so long....

[lafroste]

"It is a crime to possess something if you don't have a legal purpose to possess it." Hrmmmmm...who decides what a "legal purpose" for something is? I wonder what he thinks "legal purposes" for firearms are?

I used to go to the chemical supply store and buy five pound cans of powdered sodium cyanide. I never received so much as a second glance from the supplier. I had a business card and a legally formed corporation, but anyone could do that for a couple of hundred bucks. I used the stuff for chemical experimentation purposes, but I also thought that it strange that I could obtain such a dangerous chemical so easily. That said, my use of the chemical was as innocent as it was possible to be.