[kittycatonline.com]

The bid was posted in October 2007. I searched and didn't find any earlier posts to this, so if it is, sorry. I just couldn't believe it was for real until I saw it for myself.

[Always A Marine]

Bastards! Jack-booted thugs! And I say that with all due respect.

[mnehring]

??????

[OldSmaj]

Tim Leatherman is a Kerry supporter/endorser and a libtard from way back.

He would probably donate the crap to them, but he's more than glad to get the money from the goobermint, I'm sure.

He won't get any of mine.

[Westlander]

Gerber or Buck are decent.

[Chode]

criminals and murderers all...

[VR-21]

All this with a Republican in the White House. I don't expect the man to know everything of this nature that's going on, but I had hoped that he would have tried to change the culture of these organizations somewhat. (Sigh).

[mylife]

Alway looking after our right aint they?

[therut]

Send this to Lou Dobbs. He has been on the BATFE case lately for mistreating gun owners.

[PubliusMM]

I predict that BATF will become the next front in the assault on firearms in America. The government and the gun grabbers are likely to come up short (hopefully) in the latest DC gun case in the Supreme Court. If the Court finds an unequivocal individual right is recognized in the Second Amendment, we may well see the darkside attempt an end-around by using the enforcement efforts of BATF to begin shutting off the sources of firearms.

[thecabal]

$$$

Makes their real goals completely transparent, except to those who would be willingly blind.

[Travis McGee]

How about "A$$holes, Thugs and Fascists?"

[Wally_Kalbacken]

My ex-mother-in-law gave me a Leatherman™ tool for Christmas about 15 years ago. I have to admit, she wasn't all bad. Close, but not all.

[Free Vulcan]

Bastards
And
Total
F***heads

[El Gato]

Heads should roll over this. From the guy who placed the requisition, to everyone who signed off on it, and to the head of the BATFE.

But they won't.

[SiVisPacemParaBellum]

[lainie]

Too bad the subguns.com and fbo.gov info wasn't posted here. They've both been removed.

In any event, I thought I'd update all of you on politicians fighting over who 'fixed' this. Idaho Rep. Bill Sali claims it was him. This was from May, 2008.

http://blog.oregonlive.com/nwheadlines/2008/05/_more_northwest_front_pages_85.html

Idaho lawmaker says he prompted ATF to ditch controversial slogan
Posted by Noelle Crombie, The Oregonian May 17, 2008 05:25AM
Categories: Idaho

Looks like the ATF has to find a new slogan to engrave on the pocketknives it gives its agents. "Always Think Forfeiture" - a reference to the feds' ability to seize assets tied to a criminal act - ruffled some feathers in Congress, this morning's Idaho Statesman reports.

U.S. Rep. Bill Sali, R-Idaho, said Friday that his complaints about the slogan - "Always Think Forfeiture" - persuaded the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms to end its use on the Leatherman tools handed out to participants in a training program.

But a spokesman for the federal agency said Friday that the agency actually stopped using the slogan about two months ago, when other members of Congress first raised concerns.

While Sali claimed credit for it Friday in a press release, ATF first fielded congressional calls about the matter in late March, said the agency's spokesman, Robert Browning. Based on those inquiries, the agency decided to discontinue the slogan outright, Browning said.

"Because it has caused concern among the public, we are no longer utilizing that slogan in our training sessions," he said.

The phrase was used as part of ATF's training program to teach investigators around the country that they can properly seize the assets of the lawbreakers they arrest.

The slogan had been in use for a decade, Browning said, and until now, no one had ever complained about it.

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So the agency now claims that it nicknamed itself "always think forfeiture" ten years ago? Sometimes the jokes write themselves. Except when they're too sad to be funny.