WSJ Researching Bump Stock Ban Comments In Federal Register
BY Herschel Smith
6 years ago
Via reader and TCJ reporter Fred Tippens.
“The Wall Street Journal has been writing stories about various regulatory proposals and is preparing a story about a rule pending at the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms at the U.S. Justice Department.
We are working with a national public research firm to help us collect information using an online survey format that should take you less than 5 minutes to complete.
Your identity, including your name and email address, will be kept confidential unless you indicate otherwise. Your answers will only be used in potential news stories when combined with other participants. At the end of the questionnaire, you will be asked if you are willing to be contacted by a reporter for The Wall Street Journal to discuss your answers further or use your name with a story.
To help us, click here [https://grimaldisurveys.cmail20.com/t/d-l-nqlha-jlidthdyud-t/], which will take you to the survey, being conducted for The Wall Street Journal by Mercury Analytics, a national public opinion research firm. Alternatively, you can go to this web address,
http://www.masurveys.com/wsj_2763?ID=7242155329
Thank you very much.
James V. Grimaldi
Senior Writer
THE WALL STREET JOURNAL
O: +1 202 862-6665
E: james.grimaldi@wsj.com“
I also got this tip from another reader. This is odd. I didn’t get such an email and I made a comments.
But there is the contact information if you wish to contribute to it. It won’t do any good. The collectivists have made their mind up, and the constitution stop mattering a long time ago.
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On October 18, 2018 at 10:39 pm, BRVTVS said:
Too late:
“Thank you for your interest in participating in an important research project. Due to exceptional response, the survey you are attempting to reach has been completed. We thank you for your interest and look forward to your participation in future studies.”
On October 19, 2018 at 9:41 am, William Sullivan said:
I did get the letter from them, and agreed to a follow up. I have not heard back from them as of today. Possibly they are only checking a given number of comments.
On October 19, 2018 at 9:30 pm, carl said:
Basically they were searching to see if the comments were from a Bot.They ask if the comment you wrote was yours. Almost fell into the trap because I did through a through an gun rights app,can’t remember which one
On October 20, 2018 at 1:55 pm, LiberTarHeel said:
According to the sender, the survey is closed. The e-mail may be legit — they correctly identified my comment in the survey response form. I e-mailed the reporter/sender, but have received no response.
Optimistically, he may have just been overwhelmed with intelligent responses, or — less positively — may have realized that he wasn’t going to be able to find a bunch of wild rants from deplorable Chattahoochee River “Deliverance” mouth-breathers.
Too bad. I would really have liked to actually have one of those “common-sense conversations” that the hoplophobes always claim to seek.