Now The Gibson Guitar Raids Make Sense

Investors Business Daily ^ | 5/23/2013 | Editorial

[rktman]

IRS Scandal: The inexplicable raid nearly two years ago on a guitar maker for using allegedly illegal wood that its competitors also used was another targeting by this administration of its political enemies.

On Aug. 24, 2011, federal agents executed four search warrants on Gibson Guitar Corp. facilities in Nashville and Memphis, Tenn., and seized several pallets of wood, electronic files and guitars. One of the top makers of acoustic and electric guitars, including the iconic Les Paul introduced in 1952, Gibson was accused of using wood illegally obtained in violation of the century-old Lacey Act, which outlaws trafficking in flora and fauna the harvesting of which had broken foreign laws.

[TBP]

The People’s Republic of Obamastan.

[Huskrrrr]

Thanks, my favorite for sure.

[Scoutmaster]

Thanks. Here's a better description of the 2011 raid and what went on.

2011 raid

If you have any interest in the 2009, then here's one synopsis I wrote of it: 2009 Raids.

[rktman]

Yeah, I remember the earlier raid too. I found it odd then that Gibson was the only one “attacked” since the other makers use the same stuff. I have a ‘65 Gibson made Kalamazoo Epiphone Riviera with a rose wood fingerboard. Since I don’t have the receipt any more (bought in new in ABQ, NM) I don’t know if I would trust taking it out of the country for fear of it being “liberated” coming back in. The other axes[4 Strats, 1 Tele] all have maple fingerboards (less a 2011 Tak acoustic). I hope they’re safe. LOL!