Most people refer to the CRBA, and if Ted lost his FS-545, it would be replaced, after 1990, with a CRBA.
As for the government applying law to itself, you have got to be kidding me! We are in a glorified banana republic.
So, what ever it is that Ted has lost, or found, or was created, or that he claimed, declares what? Sorry to be dense.
WTH is he, in your opinion, less the legalese? NBC, or naturalized?