License To Kill?  

I found the following item in one of my daily newsletters today. Maybe some of you had heard about this, but I had not.


FDA wants to ban guns for senior citizens

There's been a big stink on the Internet recently regarding the so-called "prescription pistol" – the one-shot, easy-to-hold and even easier-to-shoot firearm that's meant to have the elderly and infirm of America packing heat in the palm of their hands.

Because the "Palm Pistol" is aimed at the senior demographic, the inventor of the gun was advised by an incredibly ill-informed FDA representative (what else is new) to register his company as a "medical device facility," and describe the gun as a "recreational adaptor." It boggles the mind, doesn't it?

While this nutty registration went through without a hitch, eventually one government bureaucrat used his brain and stopped the idea dead in its tracks.

Make no mistake: This is not a Second Amendment issue. Senior citizens have as much right as the next person to defend themselves — but even I don't think that a gun should be legally classified as a medical device.

Of course, the inventor of the gun thinks he's been wronged because the FDA has revoked the flawed registration of Palm Pistol. The inventor says he will appeal the ruling, claiming that the reversal is "due to political pressure."

But this isn't the case. The reversal is due to the fact that, for once, the FDA displayed an uncharacteristic amount of common sense. Of course, no working models exist yet, so this fuss could be all for nothing anyway.

Always comin' at you, guns blazing with the truth,

William Campbell Douglass II, M.D.