... the point.

The resolution I intend to offer if elected President of the club will not ban private ownership of slabbed chips.

>> If I want to own a handgun and go target shooting - then the govt.
>> has no business in what I do.

I couldn't agree more. I once wrote a letter to the local paper regarding gun control, which concluded with the statement: "Unless and until I commit a crime using one, it is none of the government's business whether or not I own a gun."

Let me ask you this, Peter. Do you think the private owner of a sporting goods store has the right to choose NOT to sell guns? Or can some third party with his own agenda come in and demand that the owner sell guns in his store? Or offer them for sale himself?

I think (at least I hope) the answers to those questions are self-evident. The CC>CC is a private organization. Our convention, our auction, our magazine -- they are our "store". If we choose not to allow the sale of slabbed chips in our store, who's to say we are wrong? And who can force us to allow this? And on what legal basis?

As I said in my reply to David Moore above, freedom does not mean that everyone can doing anything they want anywhere they want anytime they want. If ICG (or anyone else) wants to pedal slabbed chips, let them do it somewhere else.

----- jim o\-S