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Teens' Bagpipes Seized at US Border Over Ivory
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| Audust 5, 2014
Posted on 08/08/2014 2:18:06 AM PDT by SMGFan
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posted on
08/08/2014 5:46:28 AM PDT
by
null and void
(If Bill Clinton was the first black president, why isn't Barack Obama the first woman president?)
To: SMGFan
Bureaucracy and Ivory
Go together like
Chocolate and green peas
When they come for my piano
Cold, dead hands will
Hold the keys....
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posted on
08/08/2014 5:52:54 AM PDT
by
bamahead
(Few men desire liberty; most men wish only for a just master. -- Sallust)
To: SeeSharp
If they were recently made its probably wooly mammoth ivory, which is not illegal since the wooly mammoth is not endangered. Mammoth ivory is not cheap, but there is a steady supply of it from Siberia and you can buy it."Excuse me?!"
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posted on
08/08/2014 5:55:49 AM PDT
by
COBOL2Java
(I'm a Christian, pro-life, pro-gun, Reaganite. The GOP hates me. Why should I vote for them?)
To: Pearls Before Swine
Out of curiousity, I wonder how hard it is to distinguish elephant ivory from mammoth ivory. Is it visual, or do they use some high-tech instrumentation? It is quite easy with a bit of training. If you look closely at a piece of ivory you can see a feature called Schraeger Lines. It looks like a cross weave, almost like a coarse fabric is embedded in the material. The angle at which these lines cross each other is distinctive and readily identifies elephant from mammoth. HOWEVER, Customs people don't seem inclined to bother with this. They pretty much go on the assumption that all natural ivory is elephant. I have even heard of a case where, to determine if the ivory was legal artificial (plastic) they drove a hot metal pin into it - ruining it but determining that it was legal plastic.
To: Pearls Before Swine
To: poindexters brother
That’s a great law, but in many circumstances it might be hard to find someone to take your case.
To: SMGFan
That ivory front bead on your shotgun will get it confiscated.
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posted on
08/08/2014 7:36:20 AM PDT
by
vortec94
To: The Working Man
This is always the way with tyrannies.
The border situation is “hard”,
and pouncing on this teenager was “easy”.
They’ll do “easy”.
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posted on
08/08/2014 7:39:45 AM PDT
by
MrB
(The difference between a Humanist and a Satanist - the latter admits whom he's working for)
To: The Working Man
Illegals streaming over the border that they are forbidden by management to do anything about. So they concentrate on Chickenshit things like this. That's because we don't kill them when they start acting like thugs.
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posted on
08/08/2014 11:59:32 AM PDT
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zeugma
(Islam: The Antidote for civilization)
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