Re: For the WaPo - uncontrolled knowledge is a dangerous thing.

[Joe Waldron]

Joseph E. Olson wrote: "Valhalla is part of a lightly regulated industry thriving in a time of war overseas and terrorism fears at home. Around the country, at least 16 privately run schools teach civilian students skills usually associated with SWAT teams or military combat -- close-in gunfighting, assault-rifle tactics, sniper shooting."   "One voice absent from the debate is the federal government's. The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, which licenses gun dealers, has no similar monitoring for weapons trainers. State-level oversight is also largely absent...." In the mid-late '90s, post Oklahoma City, many state legislatures considered, and some passed, legislation restricting or controlling "militia training."  It wasn't just weapons training they focused on, the way some of these bills were written they would have restricted Red Cross first aid training, Boy Scout fieldcraft training, communications training, land navigation/orienteering, etc. JW

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