Thank you!

Ahem.

I think it's more than about gun control, because I think most informed people know that ship has sailed for now.

Here in the beating heart of red states (Wyoming), everybody has guns.  But not in my lifetime have I seen weekly lines of people outside sporting goods stores.

I wonder if this is the first time (since the Civil War, at least) that regular American citizens feel the need to stockpile ammunition. 

The answer is pretty simple.  Wyoming always ranks extremely high per capita in gun ownership, #1 in pickup trucks per capita, and has a Republican governor, legislature, two Republican senators, and all-R congresswoman (meaning one). 

Plus, the red hordes were finally turned back in Wyoming in the movie Red Dawn (the good one, not the recent one).

We drive them crazy.

Good question.  Does anyone have any idea how many U.S. citizens applying for passports can't read a word of English?  I doubt that number is high enough to justify the inclusion of the flyer.

Thank you, Mr. Last Outpost on the Right.  I appreciate your endorsement and your kind words.

I thought of another observation from the tour.  On occasion, someone in the audience -- or on Amazon -- will react to the book in a knee-jerk liberal way, accusing me of being a Rand Paul guy or saying the book is a Tea Party rant (not that there's anything wrong with either!).

I feel compelled to point out that the initial action against the Sacketts took place six years ago, during the Bush Administration, although the current administration carried on and fought the Sacketts all the way to the Supreme Court.  Suddenly, their outlook changes.  Suddenly, it's an outrage after all.  The transformation is nothing short of...miraculous!

Thank you, Mike.  And my wife thanks you, and my daughters thank you...

Thank you kindly.

As far as I know, not a single EPA employee or official was fired, reprimanded, or reassigned.

Troy, thank you for the terrific post.  It's tough out on the book tour trail but I've been heartened by how well the book is doing (now on its second week on the NYT list at #7) and how many readers seem to embrace it.  The Sackett case was -- and is -- one of the most outrageous real-life examples of federal arrogance and overreach I've ever researched.  My blood was boiling for a year while I wrote the book, which, as you've indicated, is fictionalized.

A couple of quick items of notes -- I'll fill in more later -- from the book tour. 

1.) Thousands of readers now know about the Sackett vs. EPA case, and many have done independent research on it well beyond my book.  BREAKING POINT, if nothing else, has opened a whole lot of eyes.  Bless the PLF.

2.) Each and every night someone lines up to get a book signed and tells me of a bad personal experience they've had with the EPA, or some other federal agency. 

Thanks to so many Ricochet members for reading it.

While I generally admire provocateurs, in this instance, well, not so much.

Ditto.  Let states be states.

Very interesting.

Last I checked, we have a Bill of Rights, not a Bill of Needs.

The language of the bill is slightly confusing, but it applies not only to guns and accessories made in the state but also to any resident who owns guns and accessories wherever they were made.  And yes, there is at least one manufacturer in Wyoming, the magnificent Freedom Arms of Freedom, Wyoming.  No kidding.  They make some of the most powerful handguns in the world.  Here's a link: http://www.freedomarms.com/