astanley
En-Route
Sigh. If you were the guy reloading this ammo for a living I think you would feel that it did matter. The attitude that "it isn't me being screwed so I don't care" is one of our biggest problems. Aviation hurts from the same thing.
I don't think that is the point at all.
The point is, people will spend 50+ posts complaining about how the government has made some very stupid decision on something that, in the grand scheme of all things, makes not one iota of difference on any level except to someone who relies on cheap used military brass to reload. There is no compelling constiutional, safety, strategic, or otherwise important reason to get all up in a dander about this. It's stupid government policy, and should be reversed, but it also shouldn't cause an "internet uproar". The TSA is constitutional morass that bears debating.
Things that impact the safety of flight and unchecked government power (e.g. SFRA/FRZ/ADIZ/TFR), those are areas we need to discuss (especially as pilots) on a larger level, because these things do impact our larger rights, safety of flight, and our overall strategy for governing ourselves (as people and pilots alike)
We spend hours debating these mindless minutiae that bear no impact on our everyday wellbeing and life. The items that do, we ignore until four banks unload and we all start pointing fingers at each other. Why? Because, paradoxically, you attract more flies with saber rattling than you do actually fixing difficult problems.
Cheers,
-Andrew