He's not concerned becuase he knows the history of these laws. Hording laws apply only to those who are stupid. They either show off, or they do something really dumb like close thier grocery store with the shelves still stocked. If you get hit by this, odds are your neighbors know about your stash, and have already bypassed the law, killed or disabled you, and taken your stuff. I don't care how good you are, when you fire on an angry crowd, they either run away at the first few shots, or literally tear you apart while you are reloading, depending on how desperate they are. Thats why you have trade goods out front, and the good stuff hidden.

I say this as someone who lives in a state with anti-hoarding laws. The few times they've been applied have been for privately owned sand piles during floods (and the owner was given a receipt, and was repayed, before it ever got into a court room) and one "gentleman" who whined becuase the fire department drained his swimming pool while his neighbor's house was burning. Other cases are where heavy equipment have been dragooned to provide heavy lift during rescue and damage control operations. Read the letter of that law, not the media drivel, there are going to be very clearly written rules of implimentation. No one is going to break those, becuase if some buzzard of a beauricrate pushes that button when the situation is not a common sense one based on immediate and unusual need, he's going to be cut loose and allowed to play in court without a government lawyer.

Can we say roadkill?

Besides, by the time it gets to that point, you have a state of emergency, aka martial law. The difference between martial law and anarchy is the number of military uniforms you see. At that point, citizen, you have the right to shut up and play along, and the easiest way to NOT have to worry is don't be a dumbass about what you've got. <img src="/images/graemlins/grin.gif" alt="" />

Wow, it's a loop.

We've had this conversation before, to, about a half dozen times over the past two or three years. One of our lawyers dissected the law in one of them, search for it.