When it became clear that Barack Obama would be elected president of the United States, Americans began to buy guns and ammunition at a record pace. With the Consumer Products Safety Commission expected to make an important decision tomorrow about the future of the lowly ink pen, Americans might want to consider hoarding ink pens.
The CPSC is expected to decide whether or not 95 percent of all ink pens sold for use in schools or by children under the age of 12 should be yanked from store shelves because their lead content exceeds levels allowed by the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008.
That’s ultimate blogging machine Bob McCarty.
Here’s the problem…okay, the problem besides the federal government actually making decisions like this (please see previous post): there may not be a substitute material available that complies with the CPSIA.
McCarty writes:
Because the law forbids the CPSC from granting an exclusion if there is a possibility of any lead being absorbed into the human body, I can only assume that the ruling will go against the ink pen manufacturers. In other words, “It’s time to hoard ink pens!”
Just make sure to hide them in the secret compartment behind your gun cabinet. You don’t want the feds finding out they’re there.
UPDATE – Linked at Daley Gator, who says: “Of course, I am not sure Lance REALLY needs a pen since I think Badgers use crayons and construction paper.” Well of course we do. When we’re making Valentines for class, anyway.