AND limit yourself to buying one of the few (one per one thousand citizens) that are legally available for citizen possession, at prices inflated by a factor of ten due to the 1986 ban, AND limit yourself to technology that is PERPETUALLY, for the (short remaining?) life of the Republic, limited to 1986 obsolete technology. Very good point. They are freezing the techology for "we the people" at some arbitrary date, while they continue to accumulate the latest and greatest and the expense of Joe Q. Taxpayer.