On August 24th 2011, functionaries of the US Fish and Wildlife Service
undertook an armed assault on two Gibson guitar factories in Nashville
and Memphis, Tennessee. In addition to their guns, possessed of a search
order signed by a taxpayer employee of happenstance endowed with judicial
robes, they confiscated millions of dollars worth of company property and
evacuated the buildings, sending 1100 American artisans doing their jobs
out into the parking lots and shutting down production of two American
factories. They probably had nothing better to do that day. The material
seized had openly cleared US Customs and no one at Gibson is charged
with smuggling, harboring contraband or anything else for that matter.

Besides the raw materials seized, they also left with a number of finished guitars.
Those are pretty nice items to have in your possession. Lots of people like them.

Sad times in Amerika.