As Bob McCarty writes, “Forget Guns and Ammo, It’s Time to Hoard Ink Pens”, and once again, the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008, the all-encompassing ADA of the naughts, is to blame:
When it became clear that Barack Obama would be elected president of the United States, Americans began to buy guns and ammunition at a record pace. With the Consumer Products Safety Commission expected to make an important decision tomorrow about the future of the lowly ink pen, Americans might want to consider hoarding ink pens.
The CPSC is expected to decide whether or not 95 percent of all ink pens sold for use in schools or by children under the age of 12 should be yanked from store shelves because their lead content exceeds levels allowed by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008.
And of course, with the economy in the tank, it’s the perfect time to attack manufacturers, who would otherwise be, you know, stimulating the economy with their wares. For my video look at CPSIA’s deleterious impact on books published before 1985, click here.
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1. Steven Den Beste:That’s the same law that made it so that Good Will can’t sell used children’s clothing any more, isn’t it?
And was going to make kid-sized trail bikes illegal because of the lead in their batteries?
Jun 1, 2009 - 10:54 pm 2. Ed Driscoll:Steve,
That’s the one. Apparently the rationale was that a kid could eat the zipper on his used clothing, or swallow the contents of his dirt bike’s battery. (Or as Steve Green put it, “For the Children (Who Chew Motorbikes)”.
Jun 1, 2009 - 11:18 pm 3. You can have my pen when you pull it from your blind, skewered eyeball « The TrogloPundit:[...] can have my pen when you pull it from your blind, skewered eyeball Via Ed Driscoll: When it became clear that Barack Obama would be elected president of the United States, Americans [...]
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