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<blockquote data-quote="Yojinbo" data-source="post: 2036467" data-attributes="member: 756"><p>I am willing to stipulate that I may be a bit "over the top" with my rhetoric about rights and such, but we need to think about how we interface with any market. We often give only lip service to a free market but shrink away and ask for limits and controls when things move against us. This is just a different type of the "too big to fail" logic. The medicine is always worse than the disease.</p><p></p><p>I think a lot of these members may be younger - and I think I have turned into a cranky old man (or just a Crank?). This is not my first (or my second) arms ban scare. The Clinton ban caught me when I was trying to start a family and a business at the same time - bringing home more IOUs than money. I bought nothing for years except for a few .30-06 shell for my old Mauser. Now I think this mania will break one of two ways - but however it goes it would be far worse for me to lose my free market ideals than for me to pay too much (or charge too much) for some off-brand lower.</p><p></p><p>OSA can (as I think I said) do whatever it wants with the sales on here. But consider what you are asking of your sellers (sponsors and members) when you talk about some unwritten "common sense" price policy without publishing that exact policy. Anyone who has ever been to court knows that common sense is not so common these days. Folks want all the benefits of a price fixing operation without the negative and legal ramifications thereof. But when you buy that particular enchilada - you get it all. I believe in the whole ugly free market - individual people are what worry me.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Yojinbo, post: 2036467, member: 756"] I am willing to stipulate that I may be a bit "over the top" with my rhetoric about rights and such, but we need to think about how we interface with any market. We often give only lip service to a free market but shrink away and ask for limits and controls when things move against us. This is just a different type of the "too big to fail" logic. The medicine is always worse than the disease. I think a lot of these members may be younger - and I think I have turned into a cranky old man (or just a Crank?). This is not my first (or my second) arms ban scare. The Clinton ban caught me when I was trying to start a family and a business at the same time - bringing home more IOUs than money. I bought nothing for years except for a few .30-06 shell for my old Mauser. Now I think this mania will break one of two ways - but however it goes it would be far worse for me to lose my free market ideals than for me to pay too much (or charge too much) for some off-brand lower. OSA can (as I think I said) do whatever it wants with the sales on here. But consider what you are asking of your sellers (sponsors and members) when you talk about some unwritten "common sense" price policy without publishing that exact policy. Anyone who has ever been to court knows that common sense is not so common these days. Folks want all the benefits of a price fixing operation without the negative and legal ramifications thereof. But when you buy that particular enchilada - you get it all. I believe in the whole ugly free market - individual people are what worry me. [/QUOTE]
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