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"Weigand's order (initiated under his company name Weigand's Combat Firearms) for additional follow-up (and then we failed to do so) because of the word "combat" in his company name. This internal control is in place to ensure that a domestic purchase is not redirected to an end user for a prohibited use..."

That's a legitimate concern on Dell's part. The International Trade in Arms regulations could be used against them. If they were caught unaware equipping an even a legal arms dealer without going through the correct bureaucratic procedures, they could be debarred by the feds from international sales. Unfortunately, these laws were defanged under Clinton and were enforced selectively.

It appears that Dell is guilty of not much more than a boneheaded mistake.

So let's see, is it Dell or the US Government that assumes a foreign national would start a company named "Combat Nuclear Missles to deliver Plutonium" and then order a laptop computer delivered to a US address?

That's a legitimate concern on Dell's part. The International Trade in Arms regulations could be used against them.

You know, I have to wonder how likely it is that an arms-smuggling front company set up by bin Laden or the Iraqis would have the words "Combat Handguns" in its name. Probably it is on a par with the likelihood of a well-organized and well-financed terrorist buying a one-way airline ticket with cash.

This kind of thing is just a show for the sheeple so bureaucrats and corporate PR people can say they are doing something to fight terrorism. Dell would do a lot more for this cause by refusing to sell to any Muslim group or country, just as we could dramatically enhance airline security by giving young Muslim men the El Al treatment every time they got on the plane, and leaving the grandmas from Duluth alone. But alas, we are a nation of cowards and appeasers and moral retards.

-ccm

It appears that Dell is guilty of not much more than a boneheaded mistake.

Wrong. They have stated in the letter posted above (#5) that they "are neutral on the gun issue". I wonder just how neutral they are on the rest of the Bill of Rights. Are they "neutral" on the 1st Amendment? I think not.

No, the jerks in Dell management are guilty of the same kind of "selective" rights nonsense as the rest of the socialist/liberal/demoRAT cabal - that the Constitution can mean any damn thing THEY want it to mean at any given moment, hence it means nothing at all. As an American citizen, for me, its the whole Bill of Rights all the time, or its a fight! I no longer consider these fools just to be "the loyal opposition"; they are either for freedom or they are the enemies of freedom.