XPost: rec.radio.shortwave   
   From: dpetermaus@att.net   
      
   On 11/15/11 19:05 , flipper wrote:   
   > On Fri, 11 Nov 2011 10:45:09 -0600, "D. Peter Maus"   
   >   wrote:   
   >   
   >> On 11/11/11 08:42 , Lord Valve wrote:   
   >>   
   >>>> If you are paranoid, you an even find stores in many places where you can   
   buy   
   >>>> a refurbished radio for cash and leave a fake name and address.   
   >>>   
   >>> Huh?   
   >>>   
   >>> Where are you posting from? Why would anyone need to   
   >>> leave his name and address - fake or otherwise - when   
   >>> purchasing a radio?   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>    Because cash transactions are coming under the scrutiny of   
   >> authority, today. Louisiana just became the most recent state to   
   >> require identity of purchaser in a cash transaction or a ban on the   
   >> cash transaction. Even a used purchase from a flea market or a   
   >> garage sale.   
   >   
   > You need to be more cautious and critical of Internet and media hype.   
   >   
      
      
     And you need to make sure you're not talking to someone getting   
   his information first hand from the legislators voting on the bill.   
      
   >   
   > It does not apply to non profits, flea markets, garage sales, persons   
   > solely engaged in the business of buying, selling, trading in, or   
   > otherwise acquiring or disposing of motor vehicles and used parts of   
   > motor vehicles, or wreckers or dismantlers of motor vehicles, dealers   
   > in coins and currency, dealers in antiques, gun and knife shows or   
   > other trade and hobby shows, and, well, anyone who isn't a "secondhand   
   > dealer"   
      
      Actually, these are specifically what the law is intended to   
   address.   
      
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