Winds across the sea.

Prolific woodsrunner Keith has unfortunately just had a run-in with the constabulary in his part of the world - a police officer on home inspection (they have those?!) found his antique muzzle loading shotgun, was convinced it was a modern breechloader, and all sorts of regulatory nightmare broke loose after that.

Keith clears the air here -

I don't know where you stand Mr. Loup, but for us in America, this is why we draw the line where we do. Because they never stop.

Of all tyrannies, a tyranny exercised for the good of its victims may be the most oppressive. It may be better to live under robber barons than under omnipotent moral busybodies. The robber baron's cruelty may sometimes sleep, his cupidity may at some point be satiated; but those who torment us for our own good will torment us without end, for they do so with the approval of their consciences. - CS Lewis